Gould Arthur Lucas (14 March 1831 – 19 May 1914) was an Irish soldier and the last living survivor of the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead in 1852.
Ensign Lucas and Lieutenant Girardot, were on watch together the night of the wreck.
Both heard the night orders given to the naval officer of the watch; Lucas was afterwards always under the impression that a small grass fire high on the shore at Danger Point misled this officer into thinking it was the lighthouse at Cape Agulha.
Three weeks after the wreck, he posted home "an account of his experience which is of great interest.
The narrative written while the circumstances were fresh in its author's memory gives us a vivid picture of the scene on that terrible night in February 1852."