''Actaeon'' (or ''Actæon'', or ''Acteon'') was launched at Fort Gloster,

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, in 1815. She was wrecked without loss of life on 28 October 1822 in the

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in southern

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. ''Actaeon'' was originally owned by J. Scott & Co. of

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. She was then sold at Mauritius.

Loss

''Actaeon'', under the command of Captain John Mackay, left

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on 6 September 1822 bound for

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. She struck the rocks in D'Entrecasteaux Channel around midnight on 28 October and the crew abandoned ship. The officers and some of the crew took the

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and made for

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, where they reported the wreck. and went to salvage as much cargo as possible and pick up the remaining crew. Some 300 barrels of pork were salvaged from ''Actaeon''s mixed cargo of wine, spirits, coal, pork, soap, and other goods. A gale totally wrecked ''Actaeon'' and one of the salvagers was drowned. Captain John Mackay named the island and reef group where ''Acteon'' was wrecked

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.''Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania'' (1920), p.129.

Citations and references

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