Dundonald was a British four-masted steel barque measuring 2,205 gross register tons launched in Belfast in 1891.

[3] He was buried in the sand, but in November 1907, members of the Hinemoa's crew exhumed his body and re-interred it at the Hardwicke cemetery at Port Ross, in Erebus Cove, in the Auckland Islands.

[4][11] The survivors also improvised clothes and tools from materials salvaged from the wreck or made from seals and the limited number of trees they found on the island.

[9] The four crew hiked their way through rough terrain to reach Port Ross, where they located the food depot and a boat.

On 16 November 1907, Hinemoa arrived at Port Ross to refresh the depot and to drop off some members of the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition.

[4] When Hinemoa returned, the scientists on board asked the crew to bring the remaining coracle and various other articles with them to New Zealand.