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Ship Details

Rig

Ship/convict transport

Tonnage

392

Demise

Taken and Burnt at Whangaroa, December 1809. Most of the crew massacred.

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7 November 1809

9 March 1809 ➜ 13 August 1809

Description

For Cape of Good Hope via New Zealand. Taken and burnt by Maoris at Whangaroa

Media

Sources

Reference

Journal of passage round world, 1806-1810 - Lieutenant I Farqueson - may include voyage, but probably only an account of her loss

Location

Australian Joint Copying Project M2047

Reference

Alexander Berry's account of loss

Location

National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 91

Reference

In - Adventures of British Seamen in the Southern Ocean - H Murray (United Kingdom 1827)

Reference

Contemporary Broadside with account of massacre

Location

National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 1062

Reference

Captain SR Chace of the "Governor Bligh" - account of voyage, including the "Boyd" massacre - Sydney Gazette 25.8.09 and 1.9.09

Reference

E Grayland - Coasts of Treachery (New Zealand 1963) covers old accounts

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