DUKE OF WELLINGTON

1843 Dec.: Condemned as a slaver at Sierra Leone. 1852: reg. Liverpool. 1854 Feb.: Frederick Davis, J.McGurr & E.Tuff, reg. Melbourne. 1855 Mar.: Transferred to Sydney. 1863 June 15: On a voyage from Wollongong to Bellambi, NSW, capsized off Bellambi. Loss of five lives. The captain and cook clutched a piece of wreckage and were picked up fourteen hours later by the steamer Hunter.