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Rig

Trader/sealer

Tonnage

296

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➜ 24 July 1792

Media

Sources

Reference

Journal, 1792 - 1975 by Robert Murry, Fourth Officer

Location

Peabody Museum, Salem PMB file 215

Reference

Extracts in Murihiku by R McNab; Dusky Bay by Begg Brothers (1960

Reference

eference in Royal Australian Historical Society Journal Volume 60, page 73

Reference

Journal by Lieutenant PG King (passenger), for passages, Norfolk Island to New Zealand to Norfolk Island in November 1793; and from Norfolk Island to Cape of Good Hope, October - December 1796

Location

National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 70

Reference

PG King's account of above New Zealand visit in Account of English Colony in New South Wales (with some account of New Zealand) by David Collins (London 1798 and Sydney 1795), including précis of eight-month voyage round world 1792-1793; and Collins' own passage to England via Norfolk Island and the Cape of Good Hope, 1796-1797 in company with HMS Reliance until 31.10, when parted until 21.12, then to the Cape of Good Hope together with HMS Supply. Britannia arrived at Liverpool on 27.6.96.

Reference

Letter of 19.11.93 by Midshipman WN Chapman regarding same New Zealand visit, published in the Polynesian Society's Journal, Volume 7, page 42.

Reference

Also in R McNab's Historical Records of New Zealand, Volume 1, page 185

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