sentences:  Captained by a real steam enthusiast, James Wilson, "Hugh Lindsay" made it to Suez in thirty-four days but the collier was later wrecked on a reef, a fate which narrowly missed befalling the "Thetis", on a reef subsequently named after her, just south of Yanbu on the north Arabian coast.Drastic measures were clearly needed to prevent these disasters and a rather old ship and a brig were made ready for surveying work despite the reluctance of the East India Company in London to provide finance.The brig was the HEICS "Palinurus", the same vessel that had transported the Elphinstone party to Qusayr in 1827.