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from Hobart for Port Albert in ballast on 14 June 1845, with a crew of nine, and one passenger. They encountered a gale while entering Bass Strait and ran aground on a sand bank twelve miles (19 km) off Shoaly Bay on the south-east coast of Flinders Island, presumably the Vansittart Shoals, 18
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June 1845. As the ship broke up, she was abandoned, all making the island safely but in so doing, both boats were damaged. The castaways came across a party of sealers who loaned them another boat, and all except Captain Marr, who was later picked up by the schooner
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exactly five months later on 15 April 1824. Twenty-one passengers made the journey, including Robert Ralston, his wife Elizabeth, two sons and six daughters, as well as cargo and livestock including two bulls and four cows from Scotland.
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celebrations. After funding and research had been established, construction commenced in 1975, with local boat builder Stan Austin as project supervisor and Pieter van de Brugge as leading shipwright.
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in 1816 and for some years was used as a merchant vessel trading between America and Britain before being brought to Australia in 1824.
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led a group of about 70 people including soldiers of the 40th Foot Regiment, 29 convicts, explorers and their families to
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with passengers and crew totalling 15 people. She was the eighth shipping arrival in the fledgling
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was wrecked after running aground on an uncharted sandbar now called Vansittart Shoals (
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commenced in Albany in 1972 with the view to completion for the town's 1976
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used in several notable voyages of exploration and settlement in
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By 1844 the vessel was involved in the transport of cattle from
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Ships of Australia and New Zealand before 1850, Part One, A - J
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and the foundation of European settlement in Queensland,"
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The full-sized, land-mounted replica is now part of the
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where she was used for exploration and supply voyages.
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Ship used in Australia in the early nineteenth century
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Index

Brig Amity

Albany, Western Australia
St John's, New Brunswick
Vansittart Island
Brig
tons burthen
brig
Australia
New Brunswick
brig
Saint John, New Brunswick
Van Diemen's Land
Stranraer
Scotland
Dublin
Rio de Janeiro
Hobart
Government of New South Wales
Sydney
Queensland
Redcliffe
penal colony
John Oxley
Henry Miller
Moreton Bay
Amity
Amity Point
North Stradbroke Island
Brisbane

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