Jabez Peters (Born ? - died 25th March 1907) was a merchant seaman. He was serving as mate on board the four-masted steel barque Dundonald when it was wrecked on the coast of Disappointment Island part of the Auckland Islands group on the 6th March 1907. He died from exposure on the island. Initially he was buried on the island but later his remains were removed to a cemetery on the main island.
Edward Kidson who was a member of the party which rescued the survivors of the shipwreck recorded in his diary that The first mate, an elderly man... had been so badly effected by sleeping in wet clothing that he became paralysed from the waist down. He was buried in the sand....
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