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Charlotte (sloop)

Topic: Engineering

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Short description: Sloop built in Sydney, Australia 1803

History
United Kingdom
Name: Charlotte
Owner: Robert Inch
Launched: 1803
Fate: Sank 27 August 1808
General characteristics
Class and type: Sloop
Tons burthen: 16 tons

Charlotte was a sloop that sank in 1808 off the coast of New South Wales, Australia .[1][2]

History

Charlotte was built in Sydney, Australia. and registered at 16 tons on 19 December 1803.[3] Owned and skippered by Robert Inch and assisted by his hand, George Conway, the ship was 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) north of Port Jackson, Australia, bound from the Hawkesbury River with a cargo of grain on 27 August 1808 when a squall struck her after her mainsail jibbed. The sloop Hope witnessed the sinking while sailing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Charlotte. Both Inch and Conway drowned.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "SYDNEY.". The Sydney Gazette And New South Wales Advertiser VI (248): p. 1. 2 October 1808. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article627594. 
  2. ↑ "View Shipwreck - Charlotte". Aust Govt. https://dmzapp17p.ris.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/wreck.do?key=351. 
  3. ↑ "PORT NEWS.". The Sydney Gazette And New South Wales Advertiser I (42): p. 4. 18 December 1803. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article625932. 
  4. ↑ Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN:0-589-07112-2 p45





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