In Vol I Lubbock discusses how unstable and easily capsized big sailing
ships could be if insufficiently ballasted or badly loaded:

"The fast four-mast barque Andelana capsized in a squall off Tacoma, Puget
Sound, in January, 1899, and sank in 25 fathoms, carrying 19 souls,
including her captain and officers, down with her. She had just finished
discharging and had all her hatches open. When the squall struck her, the
chain of the outer ballast boom, which weighed 350 tons, carried away and
over she went."