Ship Kinfauns underway from Chile towards Germany loaded with saltpetre abandoned by her crew according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 22 January 1891

An item dated Bremerhaven, Germany 20th reported that the ship Kinfauns underway from Pisagua, Chile towards Hamburg, Germany loaded with saltpetre was embedded by the ice west off Neuwerk [tidal island in the Wadden Sea, German North Sea coast]. She was abandoned by her crew consisting of the captain, his spouse and two children and 23 sailors brought by the steamship Tell to Bremerhaven.