Martha_(1799_ship)

<i>Martha</i> (1799 ship)

Martha (1799 ship)

Australian ship

For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named Martha.

Martha was constructed in Sydney in 1799. She was a sealer and merchant vessel that was wrecked at Little Manly Cove in Australia in August 1800 with the loss of her crew of four.[2] Her master was William Reid (or Reed). She arrived at Port Jackson on 14 December from Bass Strait. She was carrying 1,000 to 1,300 seal skins and 30 tierces of seal oil. She then left again on 6 March 1800.[1]

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On the voyage that proved her undoing, Martha was wrecked with a load of coal on her way from Reid's Mistake (the head of Lake Macquarie) to Sydney.[citation needed]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Clune (1969), p. 134.
  2. [2]
    Bateson & Loney (1972), p. 30.

References

  • Bateson, Charles; Loney, Jack Kenneth (1972). Australian Shipwrecks: : including vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings. Vol. 1 1622-1850. A. H. & A. W. Reed. ISBN 978-0-589-07112-7.
  • Clune, Frank (1969). The Scottish martyrs : their trials and transportation to Botany Bay. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. ISBN 0-207-95254-X. OCLC 492421917.


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