Lady Nelson Modify Page Content Ship Details Rig Same HM Brig/Armed vessel Tonnage 60 VoyagesView Full List 9 June 1803 ➜ 7 September 1803 Lady Nelson Sydney Derwent Lady Nelson Lady Nelson Description Crew massacred and brig destroyed in 1825 Media Upload Media Sources Reference James Grant - The Narrative of a Voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's Vessel, the Lady Nelson, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802 (London 1803 and Adelaide 1973) Reference Account 1800 - 1801 Location Mitchell Library, Sydney MSS 75 Reference Log, 01/01/1801 - 22/07/1802 (Sydney to Norfolk Island and return and discovery of Port Phillip) Location Original in Public Record Office, London, ADM 52/4170, Pt 3 Reference copy of log, 12/11/1801 - 23/03/1802 and Remark book, 1801 - 1802 of Lieutenant John Murray on Bass Strait discovery Location Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, United Kingdom, Miscellaneous Papers, Volume 69, Ba.1 and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course Reference Log, 01/10/1801 - 18/01/1803 Location Public Record Office, London, ADM 52/4170, Pt 3 and Australian Joint Copying Project Public Record office reel 1623 Reference Ida Lee - The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson, with the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant (London 1915) Location Reference Captain's log, 1803 - 1806 Location Public Record Office, London, ADM 51/4019 (not copied by Australian Joint Copying Project) Reference Journal, 09/06/1803 - 03/10/1803, published in Historical Records of Australia, 3.1 page 127 Reference Jorgen Jorgenson, in crew 1803 to April 1804 - A Shred of Autobiography (Adelaide 1981) Location Original in Mitchell Library, Sydney A777 Reference Historical Records of Australia, 3.1 Location Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, United Kingdom Reference Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales - Journals of his tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 18110 - 1822 (Sydney 1956) Location Mitchell Library, Sydney Doc 920 Reference John Oxley's Remarks and observations on New South Wales and Norfolk Island coasts Location Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, United Kingdom, Miscellaneous Papers, Volume 71, Ba.3 and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course Reference Narrative, January 1817 in Sydney Gazette 15/12/1817 and Account Reference Oxley's Fieldbook of New South Wales survey, Port Macquarie to Port Stephens Reference Indonesian evidence regarding - Great Circle Volume 5 Number 1 April 1983. Reference For brig's career, see "His Majesty's Armed Tender Lady Nelson 1799 - 1825, by Clifford Hawkins in - Mariner's Mirror, Volume 55, 1969 Your Stories Your name * E-mail * Post your story * Submit Leave this field blank Share this Page Share this ship with your friends and followers online.
Reference James Grant - The Narrative of a Voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's Vessel, the Lady Nelson, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802 (London 1803 and Adelaide 1973)
Reference Log, 01/01/1801 - 22/07/1802 (Sydney to Norfolk Island and return and discovery of Port Phillip) Location Original in Public Record Office, London, ADM 52/4170, Pt 3
Reference copy of log, 12/11/1801 - 23/03/1802 and Remark book, 1801 - 1802 of Lieutenant John Murray on Bass Strait discovery Location Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, United Kingdom, Miscellaneous Papers, Volume 69, Ba.1 and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course
Reference Log, 01/10/1801 - 18/01/1803 Location Public Record Office, London, ADM 52/4170, Pt 3 and Australian Joint Copying Project Public Record office reel 1623
Reference Ida Lee - The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson, with the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant (London 1915) Location
Reference Captain's log, 1803 - 1806 Location Public Record Office, London, ADM 51/4019 (not copied by Australian Joint Copying Project)
Reference Journal, 09/06/1803 - 03/10/1803, published in Historical Records of Australia, 3.1 page 127
Reference Jorgen Jorgenson, in crew 1803 to April 1804 - A Shred of Autobiography (Adelaide 1981) Location Original in Mitchell Library, Sydney A777
Reference Historical Records of Australia, 3.1 Location Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, United Kingdom
Reference Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales - Journals of his tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 18110 - 1822 (Sydney 1956) Location Mitchell Library, Sydney Doc 920
Reference John Oxley's Remarks and observations on New South Wales and Norfolk Island coasts Location Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, United Kingdom, Miscellaneous Papers, Volume 71, Ba.3 and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course
Reference For brig's career, see "His Majesty's Armed Tender Lady Nelson 1799 - 1825, by Clifford Hawkins in - Mariner's Mirror, Volume 55, 1969
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