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Charles Eaton

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Charles Eaton

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Rig

Trading bark of London

Tonnage

313

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Description

Towards Singapore from Sydney on 29 July 1834. Wrecked 15/08/1834 near Sir Charles hardy Island, Great Barrier Reef

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Reference

Letters and papers regarding the ship and the shipwreck

Location

Mitchell Library, Sydney A1704; and National Library of Australia, Canberra, MS 2142
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Reference

Letters regarding the shipwreck to/by Captain PP King, RN

Location

Mitchell Library, Sydney A3599
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Reference

Thomas Wemyss - Narrative of the melancholy shipwreck of the Ship Charles Eaton: and the inhuman massacre of passengers and crew, with an account of the rescue of two boys from the hands of the savages in an island in Torres Straits (Stockton, England, 1837 and 1884)
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Reference

"Narrative of the Wreck of the Charles Eaton" in John Curtis's - Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle (London 1838)

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