HMS Conflict (1873)
{{Other ships|HMS Conflict}}
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HMS Conflict was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales and launched on 11 February 1873.Bastock, p.59.
Royal Navy service
She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in August 1873 for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific. She was part of a punitive mission in 1879 in the New Hebrides.
In 1880, she sighted the Conflict Group, which bears her name.
She was paid off in 1882 and sold to Captain Thomas Brown.{{cite news|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS18821101.2.9 |title=Shipping Intelligence|newspaper=Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3816|date=1 November 1882|page=2|accessdate=2011-07-29}}
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On 1 April 1876, Conflict visited the port of Fremantle, remaining there until 10 April.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2975784 |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Western Australian Times |issue=171 |location=Western Australia |date=4 April 1876 |accessdate=2 August 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} Her presence unwittingly threw into confusion an elaborate conspiracy to free six Irish Fenian prisoners on 6 April and transport them to America aboard the whaler Catalpa.{{cite web|last1=Pease|first1=Zephaniah Walter|title=The Catalpa expedition|url=https://archive.org/details/catalpaexpeditio00peas/page/n7/mode/2up|publisher=George S. Anthony|accessdate=19 July 2020|location=New Bedford, MA|date=1897}}{{rp|121}} The escape was postponed and successfully executed after the gunboat's departure.
Mercantile service
Conflict left Suva for Levuka on 9 October and was wrecked on a reef midway between the two.{{cite web|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11557055?searchTerm=Conflict+lost+fiji|title=Intercolonial Telegrams, The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria), Tuesday 24 October 1882, p.8.|accessdate=17 October 2010}} There were no casualties and the ship was left stranded upright on the reef, signalling that she needed no assistance. By 12 October Captain Brown had returned to Levuka and reported that Conflict was a total loss.{{#tag:ref|She had been insured for £1000 with the Union Company.|group=Note}}
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References
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- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. {{ISBN|0-86777-348-0}}
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Category:Ships built in New South Wales
Category:Victorian-era naval ships of the United Kingdom
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