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Ship Summary

Vessel

Gorgon

Masters

Parker, John

Journey

Origin

England

Depart Date

Monday, March 14, 1791

Destination

England

Ports of Call

Tenerife
St Jago
Cape of Good Hope
Sydney 21/09/1791 to 18/12/1791
Cape Horn
Ascension

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Reference

Captain's and Master's logs

Location

Australian Joint Copying Project Public Records Office reels 1764, 1604 and 1605
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Reference

Journal of round voyage by Lieutenant John Gardiner

Location

Dixson Library, New South Wales MSQ168
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Reference

Mary Ann Parker, the captain's widow - A Voyage round the World in the Gorgon Man of War; Captain John Parker (London 1795)
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Reference

Journal of Lieutenant PG King, passenger

Location

National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 70
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Reference

Journal by Mrs King in - The Governors Lady (Melbourne 1956)
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Reference

Part account of the trip home 6 January to 17 June 1792 in Ralph Clark - The Journal and Letters of Lieutenant Ralph Clark, 1787 - 1792 (first published 1981). Captain Watkin Tench also took passage home

Location

Original manuscript in Mitchell Library, Sydney
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Reference

Journal by Sergeant William Dew of the Marines, published as - A First Fleet Family (London 1896) - covers his passage home on HMS Gorgon. (ex Sirius)

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