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List Of Colonial Vessels Of New South Wales ...
This is a list of the colonial vessels of New South Wales. Known as HM Colonial Ship, the ship prefix was used by ships owned and operated by a colony naval force or in the service of the colonial administration. References {{reflist Maritime history of Australia Colony of New South Wales New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of New South Wales , established_title2 = Establishment , established_date2 = 26 January 1788 , established_title3 = Responsible government , established_date3 = 6 June 1856 , established_title4 = Federation , established_date4 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Wales , demonym = , capital = Sydney , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 128 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Margaret Beazley , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Dominic Perrottet (Liberal) , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type1 = Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Ann (1810 Ship)
''Lucy Ann''(e) was built in Canada early in the 19th century and was brought to Australia in 1827. She was first employed as a trading vessel before purchase by the New South Wales government in 1828. In government service the ship was used to help establish a number of new coastal settlements. She was also used to transport descendants of the ''Bounty'' mutineers from Pitcairn Island to Tahiti in 1830. Sold out of government service in 1831, ''Lucy Ann'' served as a trading vessel and support ship for whaling stations in New Zealand. She was then converted into a pelagic whaler and in that role made 11 deep-sea whaling voyages from Sydney between 1835 and 1852. One of the crewmen who served aboard, in 1842, was American seaman Herman Melville, who later wrote about his time aboard. The vessel was taken to Melbourne in the 1850s, and ended her days there as a storage hulk in the Yarra River. Arrival in Australia Her Australian registration papers say ''Lucy Ann'' was a brig of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maritime History Of Australia
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Charles Bateson
Charles Bateson (4 August 1903 – 5 July 1974) was a maritime historian, journalist and author. Early life Charles Henry Bateson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, son of Charles Bateson, a company manager born Liverpool, England, and mother Alice Lowe, née Rossiter, from Wales. He was educated at Hurworth school, Taranaki, before migrating to Australia in 1922. Career Journalist Charles Bateson worked as a journalist for a number of Australian papers. He worked for newspaper proprietor Ezra Norton's "Truth and Sportsman Ltd" becoming a talented administrator and lead writer for the Sydney ''Truth'' and Melbourne ''Truth''. After Norton's newspapers were taken over by News Ltd Bateson became editorial manager of Mirror Newspapers Ltd, before helping launch ''The Australian'' newspaper. War correspondent Working for the Department of the Interior during World War II first as a publicity officer and then as principal information officer, he later became a war corresp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cossar
''William Cossar'' was a small 20 ton wooden New South Wales Colonial Government schooner that was wrecked in 1825. The ship was named after the Government master boat builder, William Cossar. On 7 July 1817 a party of convicts stole ''William Cossar'' from Newcastle, New South Wales. In late November the ship was seen to have been driven ashore at Port Stephens. ''Nancy'' was sent to investigate and on 10 December 1818 ''William Cossar'' was found to be lying on a beach at the high tide mark. The rigging, sails, gaffs, booms, bowsprit and rudder were missing, as was most of the copper sheathing. There were no signs of the convicts. They may have been killed by aborigines although it was reported that one survivor returned to Sydney on 1 May 1819. The ship was repaired and refloated after much effort. On 11 March 1824, the ship capsized near Fort Macquarie Fort Macquarie was a square castellated battlement fort built in 1798 at Bennelong Point, Sydney, New South Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Supply (1793)
HMS ''Supply'' was the American mercantile ''New Brunswick'' that the British Royal Navy purchased in October 1793 as a replacement for , which the Navy had sold in the year before. The Navy commissioned her in April 1794 under Lieutenant William Kent. ''Supply'' was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands. ''Supply'' sailed for Australia on 15 February 1795 in company with . ''Supply'' then served as an armed vessel supporting the needs of the colony at Port Jackson. She made at least one voyage to Norfolk Island transferring prisoners there from New South Wales. ''Supply'' and ''Reliance'' sailed in late 1796 to the Cape of Good Hope to gather supplies for the colony. She later returned to Sydney, arriving on 16 May 1797 carrying the stores Governor John Hunter had ordered and merino sheep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMCS Spitfire
HMCS ''Spitfire'' was a 65-ton sail gunboat built at Cuthberts Shipyard, Port Jackson, Australia and launched on 3 April 1855 for the Colony of New South Wales.Gillett, p.12 Her hull was sheathed with 22-ounce copper. She was the first warship built in Australia for a Colonial government. ''Spitfire'' was given to the Colony of Queensland in 1859 and she was used as the pilot cutter on Moreton Bay. In 1860, she was used as part of an expedition to find the mouth of the Burdekin River. She was to become the pilot boat for Cooktown Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland where James Cook beached his ship, the Endeavour, for repairs ..., until sold out of service in 1885 and purchased by Captain Alex Mathewson, for use as a fishing vessel. She was sold in 1892 to Dan Moynahan and S.B. Andreassen and during a cyclone in 1896 she was damaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Hill Packet
''Rose Hill Packet'', was a marine craft built in Australia to serve the second place of European settlement in Australia, Parramatta#European settlement, "Rose Hill", the furthest navigable point inland on the Parramatta River. When launched the vessel was named ''Prince William'' but was later named the ''Rosehill Packet'' by the convicts. The boat design was later called a Packet boat, packet (or mail) boat, because its use was that of running the first Parramatta River trade ferry, passenger, cargo, and mail service between the Sydney Cove and the Rose Hill (Parramatta) First Fleet settlements after she was launched in Sydney Cove in September and commissioned on 5 October 1789. She was the first purpose-built sailing vessel constructed in Australia. She later earned the nickname 'The Lump'. Some authorities believe that a 1790 drawing by First Fleet MIdshipman George Raper shows the vessel in the centre of Sydney Cove. Authorising construction Governor Arthur Phillip had app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Charlotte (1813 Ship)
''Queen Charlotte'' was a merchant ship built at Sydney, New South Wales in 1813. She made two voyages transporting convicts from Bengal and Mauritius to Australia. She disappeared c.1832 while on a whaling voyage. Career ''Queen Charlotte'' was built by Robert Campbell in Sydney, New South Wales. Captain James Birnie facilitated the completion of ''Queen Charlotte'', which had been on the stocks. She was launched at the end of January 1813. Birnie fitted her out and she sailed for the fisheries. Towards autumn ''Queen Charlotte'' was under the command of Captain Shelly (or Shelley), a former missionary at Tongatapu and Matavai. When she reached Eimeo he took on board several men from Raiatea and Tahiti to fish for pearls in the Paumoto Islands. Shortly after she reached the islands and started pearl fishing, the divers attacked the British crew, killing the first and second mates. At this the other crew members jumped overboard and reached shore. Two of the Tahitians onboa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Charlotte (1819 Brig)
''Princess Charlotte'' was a 60-ton brig launched in 1819 that disappeared in 1820 on a voyage between Hobart Town and Sydney. The Government constructed ''Princess Charlotte'' in 1819 at Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle ( ; Awabakal: ) is a metropolitan area and the second most populated city in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas, and is the hub of the Greater Newcastle area, w .... She was primarily used for transport and conveying cargo up and down the colony's east coast. On 27 July 1820 she conveyed 33 convicts (5 female and 28 male) from Sydney to the penal punishment station at Newcastle. returning with coal and timber harvested along the Hunter Rover. She left Hobart Town on 27 September 1820 for Sydney with crew and passengers and a cargo of wheat. The passengers included four soldiers from the 48th Regiment and at least three convicts. The captain was Edward Devine.''The Sydney Gazett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Sorell, Tasmania
Port Sorell is a town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is on the waterway of the same name, just off Bass Strait, 20 km east of Devonport and close to Shearwater and Hawley Beach. It borders the Rubicon Estuary, which has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because of its importance for waders, especially pied oystercatchers. History The area was named Panatana by local Aborigines. The town was originally a fishing and sealing port named ''Burgess'', however the name was officially changed to Port Sorell (after Governor Sorell) in 1822. The town could have been a lot larger than it is now, had it not been for bushfires, after which nearby Devonport grew to become a major port. At the , Port Sorell had a population of 2,221. Today Port Sorell is one of many popular holiday spots along the north coast of Tasmania. The first Port Sorell Post Office opened on 1 February 1845 and closed in 1863. The current office op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk (sloop)
The Colonial sloop ''Norfolk'' was built on Norfolk Island in 1798 of Norfolk Island Pine. She was wrecked in 1800. :"The necessity of a vessel to keep up a more frequent intercourse with Norfolk Island, ...having been much felt by the want of various stores ...occasioned Captain Townson, the Commanding officer, to construct a small decked boat, sloop rigged, in which he sent His letters to this port..." Cumpston describes ''Norfolk'' as, “A decked longboat built at Norfolk Iland” Governor Hunter quickly put ''Norfolk'' under the command of Matthew Flinders, the Sailing Master Peter Hibbs (seaman formerly on the "Sirius") Norfolk was to be used as a survey vessel. In 1798-99 ''Norfolk'' was used by Flinders and Bass to circumnavigate Tasmania – proving the existence of Bass Strait. Flinders also took ''Norfolk'' north to chart Cook's ''Morton's Bay'' (now Moreton Bay) and Hervey's Bay (Hervey Bay). ''Norfolk'' was then used to supply produce from the Windsor Area to P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
