Ship Thetis sighted off Cape Horn abandoned British ship loaded with saltpetre according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 5 August 1896

An item dated Nordenham, Germany 31st July reported the arrival of the ship Thetis coming from Tocopilla, Chile. She passed off Cape Horn a British 4-mast ship with cut masts and abandoned by the crew. She was loaded with saltpetre and seemed to be a almost new ship.