Templeeti:Governor Gawler (1840 ship)
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Templeeti:Infobox ship imageTempleeti:Infobox ship careerTempleeti:Infobox ship characteristicsGovernor Gawler was built in 1840. This made her the first sailing vessel built in South Australia.[1] She traded between Port Lincoln and Port Adelaide, but also carried cargo and passengers to Melbourne and Hobart Town, including soldiers, police, criminals, an executioner, as well as numerous civilians.[2] When she wrecked in 1847, she was the first South Australian ship to be wrecked.[1]
Origins
[dezie ebe o si]Captain Emanuel Underwood arrived in Port Adelaide in 1840 aboard Baboo. He brought with him the frame of a small vessel of 15 tons (register), together with sails, spars, ropes, and tackle.Templeeti:Sfnp He then assembled her on the mudflats of Port River and named her for George Gawler, the governor of the colony.
Fate
[dezie ebe o si]Governor Gawler, Underwood, master, was making for Port Lincoln when a storm drove her northward and onto a reef near Reevesby Island, in the Sir Joseph Banks Group on 1 August 1847.[1] Her two crew and two passengers survived.[3] Petrel rescued the survivors some two days later.[4]
Citations
[dezie ebe o si]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedANSD - ↑ The Advertiser (2 April 1954), P.4, "Out Among the People:More about the Little S.A. Ships".
- ↑ Templeeti:Cite newspaper The Times
- ↑ South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (10 August 1878), p.20: "Recollections of a Pioneer".
References
[dezie ebe o si]- (1885) Notable South Australians; Or, Colonists, Past and Present. Carey, Page & Company.
- Trading With 11-Ton Cockle Shell (1937, September 30). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 47.
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