Ship Details
Rig
Schooner
Built
1840
Built In
Tonnage
72
Dimensions
60.5 x 16.9 x 9.0
Demise
1849: Said to have been sold to San Francisco. Then returned to Sydney. 1857 July 27: Dragged her anchors in a gale and swept into the breakers under Barranjoey, Broken Bay, NSW. Five ships were lost in the gale. Salvaged and resumed service. 1865 Apr: Wrecked Cleveland Bay, Queensland.
Description
1848 at albany Passage, Cape York, in support of kennedy expedition. Dramatic account of edward kennedy's death at the hands of natives, recounted by aboriginal Jacky Jacky aboard the Ariel, recorded by Dr Adoniah vallack, and published in "Cape York to Kimberley" by george Farwell, (aust, 1962);
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