''Recovery'' was a

sloop A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...

that was wrecked near Port Stephens,

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in 1816.

Peter Hibbs Peter Kenney Hibbs (c. 1757 – 12 September 1847) was an English mariner and a member of the First Fleet to Australia in 1788. An able seaman on , Hibbs was also one of few non-convict First Fleet members known to have settled in the new Col ...

was ''Recovery''s owner. In early June 1816 ''Recovery'' headed from

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with a cargo of grain when a storm came up that blew ''Recovery'' out to sea. On turning the ship around it was wrecked near Port Stephens. The crew of two men, and a woman passenger, struggled ashore and walked 50 miles to

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. On the way some aborigines stripped them of all their clothes. At Newcastle they were given passage to Sydney on the sloop, ''

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'' which was also wrecked.The late tempestuous weather
''Sydney Gazette'', 6 July 1816, Retrieved 21 February 2013

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