Campbell Macquarie (1812 shipwreck)
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Campbell Macquarie was a ship that Joseph Underwood, a Sydney merchant, purchased at Calcutta in 1810. She
appears, with Richard Siddins, master, in a list of vessels registered at Calcutta in 1811. She was wrecked near Macquarie Island in 1812.
She brought general merchandise and transported a number of convicts from Calcutta, arriving in Sydney on 17 January 1812.{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71247621 |title=Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure |work=Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.16. |access-date=4 February 2012}}
On 22 March 1812 Campbell Macquarie, Captain Richard Siddins (or Siddons), left Sydney and arrived at Kangaroo Island, South Australia on 29 April 1812. There it took on board 1,650 seal skins and 33 tons of salt. On 21 May it left Kangaroo Island for Macquarie Island. At midnight on 10 June rocks were spotted. Tacking was not possible and so an anchor was dropped. Campbell Macquarie struck the rocks at 1.30am and by 2am her stern post broke and water poured in. The pumps were unable to cope with the inflow and at daylight the crew began unloading the cargo, sails, and rigging. Much of it was saved, only to be destroyed weeks later in a storm. On 28 June the crew burnt the ship to salvage its ironwork.{{sfnp|Bateson|1972|p=48}}
The crew consisted of 12 Europeans and 30 Lascars, of whom four died whilst waiting for rescue.{{sfnp|McNab|1909|pp=184–185}}
On 20 October 1812, Perseverance rescued 12 of the crew when she called at the island to take on board another sealing party. The remainder were rescued some months later.{{cite web |url=http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/fahan_mi_shipwrecks/journals/Shipwrecks/swcampbell2.pdf |title=First Known Wreck - Campbell Macquarie |work=Macquarie Island Shipwrecks, Sealers and Scientists - The Shipwreck Watch |year=2007 |access-date=19 June 2012 |archive-date=29 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329224922/http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/fahan_mi_shipwrecks/journals/Shipwrecks/swcampbell2.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Citations
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References
- {{cite book |last1=Bateson |first1=Charles |author-link1=Charles Bateson |title=Australian Shipwrecks Vol.1 (1622-1850) |year=1972 |publisher=A.H. and A.W. Reed |location=Sydney |isbn=0-589-07112-2 }}
- {{cite book |last1=McNab |first1=Robert |author-link1=Robert McNab |title=Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 1642 to 1835 |access-date=19 June 2012 |year=1909 |publisher=Whitcombe and Tombs |location=Wellington |pages=184–185 |chapter=CHAPTER XIV. Macquarie Island Trade, 1810 to 1820. |chapter-url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-McNMuri-t1-body-d1-d14.html }}
- {{cite book|last=Phipps|first=John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta)|year=1840|title=A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ...|publisher=Scott}}
External links
- {{cite web |url= http://www.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/wreck.do;jsessionid=5C6AF27088C7DEF775FC87580178C3F8?key=6967&action=expandAll |title=Campbell Macquarie |work=Australian National Shipwreck Database }}
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Category:British ships built in India
Category:Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
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Category:Convict ships to New South Wales
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Category:Maritime incidents in 1812
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