Sydney - Port Curtis

Ship was under NSW Government charter for the "North Australia" expedition; ship was grounded at Port Curtis; Journal from 6/1/47 published in SG & SGTL of 17/4/1847; some account by George De Winton, Army Officer in his book "Soldiering fifty years ago, Australia in the fourties:, London 1898; Reports of 1847 grounding at Port Curtis and another in 1849 near Cape York in "Australian Shipwrecks", Vol 1, by Charles Bateson, 1972;