Argument (Ship)

Short description: Australian sloop wrecked in 1809

Argument was an Australian sloop of some 8 tons, built in Sydney and registered on 8 October 1800.^[1]

In March 1809 Argument, Experiment and Hazard left Pittwater, New South Wales, bound for Sydney with cargoes of wheat. On 17 March,^[2] a squall arose and the master of Argument, Benjamin Pate, watched as Hazard was driven ashore and wrecked. Deciding to avoid a similar fate he attempted to run for Broken Bay but missed the entrance and struck Short Reef, where Argument was wrecked. All three people on board — Pate, his hand James Dicey, and a passenger, Mary Kirk — drowned.^[2]

References

↑ Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN:0-589-07112-2 p45
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Ship News". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 2 April 1809.

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[1] Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN:0-589-07112-2 p45

[SG020409-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Ship News". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 2 April 1809.

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