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(And to many of their associates) For the years 1803++

Marjorie Tipping, Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia. South Yarra, Vic., Viking O'Neil, 1988.

Year 1803

February 1803: To Government. Convict transport HM Calcutta. Shelton´s Accounts No. 24.

1803: Betsy of 1803. Owners, McTaggart and Co. Captain R. Eastwick. From Calcutta in 1803. 24 December 1803. 20 April 1804. General merchandise, get coal and timber. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Harrington of 1804. Owners Chace and Co. Captain William Campbell. 1803- 9 Jan 1804. May 1804. Merchandise, sugar, rum, arrack. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Dart brig. Owner, J. M'Kenzie. Captain D. McLennan. 29 Sep 1803-24 Oct 1803. Sealer. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Rolla. Owners, Messrs Brown. Captain Robert Cumming. 12 May 1803. Convict transport, timber, seals. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Nautilus renamed L'Enfant d'Adele. Owner, Berry, Simpson and R. Coutance, Merle and Co. Captain James Black. Little known. Logs, cedar. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Mary or Mary Ann. Owner, Boardman and Co. Captain Samuel Balch. 1803 - 24 Jan 1804 - 12 Feb 1804. General merchandise, to Manila. US owners. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Scorpion whaler. Owner, Mathers and Co. Captain William Dagg. 1803 - 10 May 1804-5 May 1804. Whaler/sealer. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Rambler (of 1803). Owner, Perkins and Co. Captain Bowditch. 1803-1804. Trader to Canton. T. H. Perkins to Samuel Snow at Canton on this voyage.

1803: Ocean of 1803. Owners, Hurry and Co. Captain John Mertho. 24 Nov 1803 from Newcastle, UK. Whaling. Cumpston's Register has her again in Sydney Capt Mertho for 24 Aug 1804 to 7 October 1804.

1803: Calcutta (of 1803). RN. Captain Dan Woodriff RN. 26 Dec 1803-16 March 1804. Convict transport. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Cato of 1803. Owners, Reeve and Green of London. Captain John Park. 9 April 1803. Timber, trader, lost at sea. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Charles. US-owned. Captain Unknown. Sealing in Bass Strait in 1803. Or, 1803: Charles (of 1803). Owner, Dorr and Co? Captain Isaac Percival. Sealer, Bass Strait. Boston. From, Wace and Lovett.

1803: Bee colonial vessel. Local Sydney ship. Owner not given. 16 Dec 1803-18 Dec 1803. 16 Dec 1803. Gather lime at Broken Bay. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1803: Bridgewater of 1803. Owners, Princes and Co. (Prinsep?) Captain E. H. Palmer. 1802-12 Mar 1803. May, 10 Aug 1803. Oak timber, to China. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Britannia of 1804. Owner Enderbys. Captain George Quested. 1803. 13 May 1804. Whaler, some merchandise. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Albion of 1803, Owner Champions, Captain Eber Bunker. 6 July 1803, 30 Aug 1803, Whaler, Cumpston's Register. She is again at Sydney with Eber Bunker on 4-21 August.

1803: Alexander of 1803. Owners Hurrys. Captain Robert Rhodes. 1802 - June 1803-19 Sep 1803. Whaler, pork to Norfolk Island. Cumpston's Register has her in Sydney again 14 Dec 1804 to 27 Feb 1805. See re Jorgen Jorgenson aboard her, later. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Independence schooner. Owner, Fanning and Co. O. F. Smith et al. 1803-1805. Sealer, lost Pentantipodes. New York, built Kangaroo Island. Cumpston's Register has her again at Sydney Capt O. F. Smith or J. Townsend, or Master Wilkinson, arrives 28 June leaving 29 August, sealing in Bass Strait and to China. From, Wace and Lovett.

1803: Union. US-owned. Captain Unknown. Sealing with Charles in Bass Strait by 1803.

1803: US Capt Jonathan Aborn in 11-12/1803 is on sealer/trader Patterson, for owners either Munro and Co. or Lawrence and Co., to Sydney, out sealing, see HRA, 1 (4), pp. 525-526 and HRA, 1 (5), pp. 69; Dorr and Co.

In 1803: Sealer Charles Captain Isaac Percival from Boston to Bass Strait and King George Sound; (Item extracted from, Wace and Lovett.)

1803-1804: In 1803-1804, Fanning and Co. are owners of Union brig/sealer from New York, Capt Isaac Pendleton, to King George Sound, Kangaroo Island, Bass Strait, Sydney, to China, wrecked by Fiji. (See HRA, 1 (4,) p. 583 and HRA, 1 (5) pp. 120-122ff.

In November 1803, Lawrence and Co. are owners for sealer/trader Wertha Ann of New York, Capt Gibbs West, Sydney then China, see HRA, 1 (4), p. 427.

December 1803, Captain W. R. Eastwick, from Sydney to Madras, trade with Simeon Lord of Sydney, a captain noticed (by Parkinson) as an opium trafficker.

1803: Gov. King at Sydney orders the settlement of Tasmania, his reasons given being (1) to prevent any French occupation; (2) for timber getting (3) to divide the convicts; (4) to raise grain (5) to promote sealing. Captain Eber Bunker, still on the whaler Albion, assisted an expedition, 12 September, 1803.
Dakin, Whalemen Adventurers, p. 30.

1803: 12 February, 1803: Arrives Sydney/Port Jackson the largest ship to thus far enter the harbour, Castle of Good Hope, 1000 tons, 307 head Bengal cattle, some Zebu, donkeys, rice and sugar, under contract, and 14000 gals spirits. Ship for Robert Campbell and Co.

1803: 12 September: John Bowen arrives to "the future Tasmania", Hobart, with convicts to set up a new British colony.
See Philip Tardif, Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls: Convict Women in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1829. North Ryde, NSW, Angus and Robertson, 1990.

1803: 1803+: On treatment of convicts convicted in India, mostly, indigenous people.
(See also, C. M. Turnbull, 'Convicts in the Straits Settlements', 1826-1867', Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 43, Part 1, No. 217, July 1970., pp. 87-103.)

1803: Lloyd's Green Book Committee: Angerstein, John Burke, William Bell, John Campbell, Alexr. Champion, George Curling, Charles Henry Dubois, Effingham Laurence, Robert Pulsford, Robert Shelden, Edward Vaux. At Register Office of Shipping, No 4 Castle Court, Birchin Lane. New 1803 members are David Scott and Co., John Shee and Thomas.

1803: Lloyd's Red Book Subscribers List includes: Moses Agar, J. & A. Atkins, Thomas Backhouse and Co., John Blackett, William Bewnett (? - Bennett?), Brown, Welbank and Co., Norrison Coverdale; Camden Calvert and Co., Cox and Curling, Robert Curling, Duncan and Lachlan, Thomas Hall, Hodgson and Co., Humble, Holland and Hurry, Ives Hurry and Co., Peter Kennion, John Lyall, Thomas Newnham, Reeve and Green, Thomas Rowcroft, St. Barbe, Green and Co., F. S. Secretan, Society of Ship Owners of Great Britain. Transport Board (2 books).

1803: The man who named Australia: Matthew Flinders (died 1814), a "naval prodigy". Son of Lincolnshire surgeons. By 1801 he had sailed to Tahiti with William Bligh, and sailed with Capt. John Hunter to NSW, later surveying Bass Strait with Bass. Been first to circumnavigate Tasmania, and developed ambition of doing the same for the entire continent. (Flinders married Ann Chapell and had a daughter Anne who was mother of the explorer/Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie). By 1801, Flinders was sailing about Australia (Terra Australis. At Encounter Bay off South Australia he met French explorer Nicholas Baudin (who later died of dysentery on Mauritius). Baudin was using a map Flinders himself had drawn! In 1803, Flinders' voyage home was interrupted, and he called in to Ile-de-France (Mauritius). The Governor-General de Caen imprisoned Flinders for seven years as a "spy". Flinders did not reach England till 1810, and almost killed himself with work on his discoveries, and met bureaucratic inertia from the Admiralty.

1803-1805: A schooner/sealer Independence, from New York, (for Kangaroo Island off the South Australian coast?) Captain O. F. Smith with ? Wilkinson and J. Townsend, for Fanning and Co., to Kangaroo Island, King George Sound, Bass Strait, Sydney, and same in 1804 and 1805, to Norfolk Island, lost Penantipodes, see Fanning, 1924; Henry Trapp, L. C. Tripp; ? Trotter, is Captain of snow/trader, Susan, from Providence, owners not named, to Sydney thence Canton, see HRA 1 (9), p. 47.

1802, Southern whaler General Boyd, Captain Owen Bunker, owned by Watson and Co. See Australian Encyclopaedia, Whales, p. 275.

In 1803: Abiel and Jonathan Winship Jnr. re ship O'Cain of New York in 1803.

1803: US Captain Jonathan Aborn in 11-12/1803 is on sealer/trader Patterson, for owners either Munro and Co. or Lawrence and Co., to Sydney, out sealing, see HRA, 1 (4), pp. 525-526 and HRA, 1 (5), pp. 69.

1803: Dorr and Co. in 1803 have sealer Charles Capt Isaac Percival from Boston to Bass Strait and King George Sound; (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett).

1803-1804: In 1803-1804, Fanning and Co. are owners of Union brig/sealer from New York, Capt Isaac Pendleton, to King George Sound, Kangaroo Island, Bass Strait, Sydney, to China, wrecked by Fiji, see HRA, 1 (4,) p. 583 and HRA, 1 (5) pp. 120-122ff.

1804-1805: Champlin and Minturn in December 1804 and 1805 have trader Aeolus from Sumerset (sic) NY, Capt Andrew Mather, to Sydney, thence China; (Item extracted from, Wace and Lovett.)

1803: L'Adele snow. Owners, M. S. G. Courtans. Captain R. Coutance. 15 July 1803-4 Sep 1803. From Mauritius, timber. Cumpston's Register.

1803: John sealer. Owner, Chace. Captain not given. 26 Dec 1803-26 Dec 1803. Seal skins, oil, Bass Strait. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1803: James of 1803. Owner, Thomas Raby of Sydney. Captain not given. 23 Dec 1803. Gathering lime at Broken Bay. Lost at Broken Bay by 25 April. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1803: Governor King. Owner, Kable and Underwood of Sydney. Captain Moody. 26 Dec 1803-7 Jan 1804. Sealing or whaling. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1803: HM Glatton. RN. Captain James Colnett RN. 1802 - 11 Mar 1803-17 May 1803. Convict transport. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Ferrett whaler. Owner, Daniel Bennett. Captain Philip Skelton. 1803 - 22 Jan 1804-31 Jan 1804. Whaler, to Derwent River. Owner has been been misgiven as "David Bennett". Cumpston's Register. This ship was under Skelton at Sydney 8 Sep 1805 then to New Zealand's Bay of Islands, 20 Sep 1805. (See Robert McNab, From Tasman to Marsden. 1914. Aspects of New Zealand Maritime History.)

Item: 1803: First cricket match played in Australia by officers of HM Calcutta, in Sydney on a boxing day.

1804: 4 March, 1804, Sunday, Convict rebellion at Castle Hill, Sydney, the only battle (as reported) ever fought by the NSW Corps. Otherwise, soldiers' conflict with Aboriginals was not exactly "officially reported".

Year 1803

February 1803: To Government. Convict transport HM Calcutta. Shelton´s Accounts No. 24.

1803: Betsy of 1803. Owners, McTaggart and Co. Captain R. Eastwick. From Calcutta in 1803. 24 December 1803. 20 April 1804. General merchandise, get coal and timber. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Harrington of 1804. Owners Chace and Co. Captain William Campbell. 1803-9 Jan 1804. May 1804. Merchandise, sugar, rum, arrack. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Dart brig. Owner, J. M'Kenzie. Captain D. McLennan. 29 Sep 1803-24 Oct 1803. Sealer. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Rolla. Owners, Messrs Brown. Captain Robert Cumming. 12 May 1803. Convict transport, timber, seals. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Nautilus renamed L'Enfant d'Adele. Owner, Berry, Simpson and R. Coutance, Merle and Co. Captain James Black. Little known. Logs, cedar. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Mary or Mary Ann. Owner, Boardman and Co. Captain Samuel Balch. 1803 - 24 Jan 1804-12 Feb 1804. General merchandise, to Manila. US owners. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Scorpion whaler. Owner, Mathers and Co. Captain William Dagg. 1803 - 10 May 1804 - 5 May 1804. Whaler/sealer. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Rambler (of 1803). Owner, Perkins and Co. Captain Bowditch. 1803-1804. Trader to Canton. T. H. Perkins to Samuel Snow at Canton on this voyage.

1803: Calcutta (of 1803). RN. Captain Dan Woodriff RN. 26 Dec 1803-16 March 1804. Convict transport. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Cato of 1803. Owners, Reeve and Green of London. Captain John Park. 9 April 1803. Timber, trader, lost at sea. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Charles. US-owned. Captain Unknown. Sealing in Bass Strait in 1803. Charles (of 1803). Owner, Dorr and Co? Captain Isaac Percival. Sealer, Bass Strait. Boston. From, Wace and Lovett.

1803: Bee colonial vessel. Local Sydney ship. Owner Not given. 16 Dec 1803-18 Dec 1803. 16 Dec 1803. Gather lime at Broken Bay. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1803: Bridgewater of 1803. Owners, Princes and Co. (Prinsep?) Captain E. H. Palmer. 1802-12 Mar 1803. May, 10 Aug 1803. Oak timber, to China. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Britannia of 1804. Owner Enderbys. Captain George Quested. 1803. 13 May 1804. Whaler, some merchandise. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Albion of 1803, Owner Champions, Captain Eber Bunker. 6 July 1803, 30 Aug 1803, Whaler, Cumpston's Register. She is again at Sydney with Eber Bunker on 4-21 August.

1803: Alexander of 1803. Owners Hurrys. Captain Robert Rhodes. 1802-June 1803-19 Sep 1803. Whaler, pork to Norfolk Island. Cumpston's Register has her in Sydney again 14 Dec 1804 to 27 Feb 1805. See re Jorgen Jorgenson aboard her, later. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Union. US-owned. Captain Unknown. Sealing with Charles in Bass Strait by 1803.

In 1803: Sealer Charles Captain Isaac Percival from Boston to Bass Strait and King George Sound; (Item extracted from, Wace and Lovett.)

In November 1803, Lawrence and Co. are owners for sealer/trader Wertha Ann of New York, Capt Gibbs West, Sydney then China, see HRA, 1 (4), p. 427.

December 1803, Captain W. R. Eastwick, from Sydney to Madras, trade with Simeon Lord of Sydney, a captain noticed (by Parkinson) as an opium trafficker.

1803: Gov. King at Sydney orders the settlement of Tasmania, his reasons given being (1) to prevent any French occupation; (2)for timber getting; (3) to divide the convicts; (4) to raise grain; (5) to promote sealing. Captain Eber Bunker, still on the whaler Albion, assisted an expedition, 12 September, 1803.
Dakin, Whalemen Adventurers, p. 30.

1803: 12 September: John Bowen arrives to "the future Tasmania", Hobart, with convicts to set up a new British colony.
See variously in Philip Tardif, Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls: Convict Women in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1829. North Ryde, NSW, Angus and Robertson, 1990.

1803: The man who named Australia: Matthew Flinders (died 1814), a "naval prodigy". Son of Lincolnshire surgeons. By 1801 he had sailed to Tahiti with William Bligh, and sailed with Capt. John Hunter to NSW, later surveying Bass Strait with Bass. Had been the first to circumnavigate Tasmania, and developed ambition of doing the same for the entire continent. (Flinders married Ann Chapell and had a daughter Anne who was mother of the explorer/Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie). By 1801, Flinders was sailing about Australia (Terra Australis. At Encounter Bay off South Australia he met French explorer Nicholas Baudin (who later died of dysentery on Mauritius). Baudin was using a map Flinders himself had drawn! In 1803, Flinders' voyage home was interrupted, and he called in to Ile-de-France (Mauritius). The governor General de Caen imprisoned Flinders for seven years as a "spy". Flinders did not reach England till 1810, and almost killed himself with work on his discoveries, and met bureaucratic inertia from the Admiralty.

1803-1805: A schooner/sealer Independence, from New York, (for Kangaroo Island off the South Australian coast?) Captain O. F. Smith with ? Wilkinson and J. Townsend, for Fanning and Co., to Kangaroo Island, King George Sound, Bass Strait, Sydney, and same in 1804 and 1805, to Norfolk Island, lost Penantipodes, see Fanning, 1924; Henry Trapp, L. C. Tripp; ? Trotter, is Captain of snow/trader, Susan, from Providence RI, owners not named, to Sydney thence Canton, see HRA 1 (9), p. 47.

1802: Southern whaler General Boyd, Captain Owen Bunker, owned by Watson and Co. See Australian Encyclopaedia, Whales, p. 275.

In 1803: Abiel and Jonathan Winship Jnr. re ship O'Cain of New York in 1803.

1803: Dorr and Co. in 1803 have sealer Charles Capt Isaac Percival from Boston to Bass Strait and King George Sound. (Item extracted from, Wace and Lovett.)

1803-1804: In 1803-1804, Fanning and Co. are owners of Union brig/sealer from New York, Capt Isaac Pendleton, to King George Sound, Kangaroo Island, Bass Strait, Sydney, to China, wrecked by Fiji, see HRA, 1 (4,) p. 583 and HRA, 1 (5) pp. 120-122ff.

1804-1805: Champlin and Minturn in December 1804 and 1805 have trader Aeolus from Sumerset (sic) NY, Capt Andrew Mather, to Sydney, thence China. (Item extracted from, Wace and Lovett.)

1803: L'Adele snow. Owners, M. S. G. Courtans. Captain R. Coutance. 15 July 1803-4 Sep 1803. From Mauritius, timber. Cumpston's Register.

1803: John sealer. Owner, Chace. Captain not given. 26 Dec 1803-26 Dec 1803. Seal skins, oil, Bass Strait. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1803: James of 1803. Owner, Thomas Raby of Sydney. Captain not given. 23 Dec 1803. Gathering lime at Broken Bay. Lost at Broken Bay by 25 April. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1803: Governor King. Owner, Kable and Underwood of Sydney. Captain Moody. 26 Dec 1803-7 Jan 1804. Sealing or whaling. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1803: HM Glatton. RN. Captain James Colnett RN. 1802-11 Mar 1803-17 May 1803. Convict transport. Cumpston's Register.

1803: Ferrett whaler. Owner, Daniel Bennett. Captain Philip Skelton. 1803-22 Jan 1804-31 Jan 1804. Whaler, to Derwent River. Owner been misgiven as "David Bennett". Cumpston's Register. This ship was under Skelton at Sydney 8 Sep 1805 then to New Zealand's Bay of Islands, 20 Sep 1805. (See Robert McNab, From Tasman to Marsden, 1914. Aspects of New Zealand Maritime History.)

Item: 1803: First cricket match played in Australia by officers of HM Calcutta, in Sydney on a boxing day.

Year 1804

???: To Messrs Reeve and Wigram (Second contract for Reeve). Convict transports Coromandel and Experiment. Shelton´s Accounts No. 25. (¨Three Scotch convicts¨.) The name Reeve here remains a problem person for research. These are presumably Joshua Reeve and Robert Wigram.

1804: HM Buffalo of 1804. RN. Lt William Kent. 12 June 1804 - 15 October 1804. Cattle, horses. Cumpston's Register, p. 5

1804: Contest (44 tons). Owners, Kable and Underwood. Captain not given. Launched May 1804. Local Sydney ship. Cumpston's Register, p. 49.

1804: Coromandel (2). Owners, Reeve and Green. Captain John Robinson then George Blakey. 1803 - 7-8 May 1804 - 19 July 1804. Convict transport. Reeve and Co. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Rose. Owner P. Gardner. Captain James Carey. Sealer, trader to China from Nantucket Island. Cumpston's Register. From Wace and Lovett.

1804: Fair American of 1804. Owner, J. E. Farrell M/O. Captain J. E. Farrell. 26 March 1804 - 12 Nov 1804. Also to Manila. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Hannah and Eliza. Owner, W. Rotch. Captain Micajah Gardner. 1806. Whaler, sealer from New Bedford. From Wace and Lovett.

1804: Raven. (11 tons). Owner, Thomas Raby of Sydney. Captain not given. New by 1804. 23 May 1804. Light coals, cedar timber. Cumpston's Register, p. 49.

1804: Surprise sealer. Owner, Kable and Underwood of Sydney. Capt Rushworth. 19 April 1804 - 9 April 1804. Bass Strait sealing. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Sophia of 1804. Owners, Not given. Captain William Collins. 1804- 16 Jan 1805. Convicts, stores. Cumpston's Register, p. 51

1804: Policy whaler. Owners, Hurrys. Captain C. S. Foster, Rbt. Sparrow. 1804 - 17 Nov 1804 - 10 May 1805. Timor, Mollucccas, England, seal/whale oil. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Richard and Mary of 1804. Owners, Spencer and Co. Captain James Lucas. 1804 - 5 January 1805 - 26 January 1805. Whaling, to England and Moluccas. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Mandarin (of 1804). Owners, Notknown. Captain James Magee. 1804 - Trader. Letter T. H. Perkins by Mandarain Capt James Magee to E. Bumstead at Canton on Madeira wine, other goods, by which time the Perkins firm has ships on N/w coast America, Malay coast, Isle of France/Mauritius. In 1804, TH Perkins to Grant, Forbes and Co. in London who are still unidentified.

1804: Lady Barlow Owners, Campbell and Co. Captain A. McAskill. 21 Jan 1804. Skins, timber, curios, for Campbell Family. Robert Campbell, Sydney. Cumpston's Register, p. 51, has her to Pegu, Bengal, England via Derwent.

1804: Experiment (1). Owner, Wigram and Co., of London. Captain Francis J. Withers. 24 June 1804. Convict transport. Cumpston's Register, p. 51. Presumably, Robert Wigram.

1804: Mary Owners, Boardman and Co. Captain Samuel Balch. Trader from Boston to Manila. From Wace and Lovett

1804: Mersey. James Wilson Master/Owner. Captain James Wilson. 16 April 1804 - 24 May 1804. Trader from Fort William. Cumpston's Register. Consignment for Robert Campbell Snr, Sydney.

1804: Pilgrim (of 1804). Owners Boardman and Co. Captain Samuel Delano. 22 Aug 1804 - 31 Aug 1804. Sealer. Boston, Bradbury and Co. Cumpston's Register, she is sealing in Bass Strait. From Wace and Lovett.

1804: Pilgrim of 1804. US-owned. Captain Unknown. Sealer. Sealing in Bass Strait by 1804. Aboard is O. F. Smith, an American, who applied to live at Sydney but was refused by Gov. King.

1804: Endeavour (of 1804). Owner not given. Captain Murrell. 1804 - 22 Jan 1805 to Bass Strait. Sealing, fine skins. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Marcia. Owners, Unknown. Captain J. Aicken. 5 July 1804. Wrecked, salvage, taking beche-de-mer. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Endeavour. Owners, Kable and Underwood of Sydney. Captain J. Oliphant. 17 Jan 1804 - 8 Feb 1804 - 17 Jan 1804. Sealing. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Myrtle. Owners, Wm. Kinlock and Co. Captain Henry Barber. 18 Oct 1804 - 31 Dec 1804. Misc, general, spirits, ordered to sea. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Edwin sloop. Sydney owned. Captain William Stewart. 8 Feb 1804. Bass Strait sealing. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Brook Watson. Owners, Goodall and Turner. Captain Obed Worth. Whaling. Goodall and Turner. AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 199.

1804: Antelope. Owner, Daniel Bennett. Captain James Mortlock, John Samuel Parker. Captured. AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 196.

1804: Aeolus (US). Champlin and Minturn. Captain Andrew Mather. 1804-1805. At Sydney 1804-1805. 9 Feb 1805 . Whaler, to China. Sumerset, New York. Cumpston's Register. From Wace and Lovett.

1804: African (of 1804). Owner Daniel Bennett of Blackheath. Captain Ranson Jones. 1804. Whaling. Formerly Minerve, captured by HMS Circe in 1800. Other captain is John Brown, as in AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 194.

1804: Active (whaler3), Owner Daniel Bennet, Rotherhithe. Capt Louis Blair. Whaling, AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 193.

1804: Adonis of 1804. Owners Unknown. Captain Robert Turnbull (See above). 25 Aug 1804 - 19 Sep 1804. Whaling NZ. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Swift prize. Bought by Campbell and Co. J. Lawrence. 1804, taken as prize. 17 Nov 1804. Beef, clothing, wine, arrack. Earlier owned by Dutch. Cumpston's Register sees her condemned in Sydney.

1804: Perseverance. US-owned. Captain Unknown. Sealing in Bass Strait by 1804. 1804: Perseverance (of 1804). Owners Fanning and Co. Captain Amasa Delano. Sealer from Boston. From Wace and Lovett

1804: Integrity HMC. Sydney owned. Capt Rushworth. Feb 1804 maybe. Port Phillip, Derwent. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Union of 1804. US Owners Fanning and Co. Captain J. Pendleton. 27 June 1804-29 August 1804. Sealing, Bass Strait, China. Cumpston's Register.

1804: P. Gardner is owner in 1804 for sealer/trader Rose, of Nantucket, Captain James Carey, to Sydney, Dampier Straits south of Tasmania, thence Canton, (note re R. Caldwell, Nantucket), see HRA, 1 (5), pp. 120-122;

1804-1805: Champlin and Minturn in December 1804 and 1805 have trader Aeolus from Sumerset (sic) NY, Capt Andrew Mather, to Sydney, thence China; (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett.)

In 1804-1805, for not-named owners, ship Herald of Salem, Captain Zachary Silsbee, to Tasmania, see Langdon, 1971;

1804: US Captain Amasa Delano, in March-November 1804 is on sealer Perseverance, of Boston, for Fanning and Co., to Cape Barren Island and Bass Strait then S/W coast of New Holland. (See HRA, 1 (5), pp. 168-173.)

1804: Capt Samuel Delano in late 1804 is on schooner/sealer Pilgrim, of Boston, for Boardman and Co., to Sydney and Bass Strait, then New Zealand, see HRA, 1 (5), pp. 173-176; (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett.)

1804-1806: In 1804-1806 sails whaler/sealer Hannah and Eliza from New Bedford. Captain Micajah Gardner, for owner W. Rotch to Tasmania, Norfolk Island, Broken Bay, Norfolk Island, then New Zealand and Cape Horn. (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett.)

1804: US merchants Boardman and Co. in 1804 are owners for Mary (or Marion or Mary Ann), from Boston, Capt. Samuel Balch, to Sydney, thence Manila, see HRA I (5), pp. 151-152. (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett.)

1804: Circa: Date becomes relevant for the London-based Green-Wigram partnerships. Some information is extant on Wigrams, a large family with some men operating as convict contractors. Greens seem resistant to genealogical research, although they are referred to in E. Keble Chatterton, The Mercantile Marine. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1923., pp. 94ff. On Wigrams, see Burke's Landed Gentry for Arkwright of Sutton Scarsdale and Long of Sydenham. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage for Wigram. There is no date in Shelton's Contracts No 25, for convict ships Coromandel and Experiment, contracts with Messrs Reeve and Wigram, 382 cons, Shelton charged £381/14/8d. with three Scotch convicts; as found in Byrnes, `The Blackheath Connection', p. 97, Note 156.

1804: Convict ship Coromandel 1 (2), probably owned as Coromandel I above. Arriving Sydney 7 May 1804.

1804: Convict shipExperiment 1, Arriving Sydney 24 June, 1804.

1804: Active at Penang by 1804: Robert Townsend Farquhar (1776-1830), governor at Penang, succeeding Leith, very energetic, and he reconstructs Fort Cornwallis. French privateers still sail about. Farquar is succeeded by Philip Dundas, brother of Henry Dundas (Lord Melville). In 1804, Acheen has a civil war, family squabble, the displaced sultan offers Penang a fort and settlement at Acheen, re pepper trade, but the EICo procrastinates. Then the EICo directors went for a Acheen fort, maybe to command northern approach to the Straits of Malacca. Philip Dundas also shilly-shallied. But in 1805, ambitions grew. EICo, Directors very keen, mentioning Pegu timber nearby as well.
Clodd, Francis Light, pp. 140-148.

1804: By 1804, New Zealand "did its bit" re providing naval timber. Captains had been enthusiastic about the woods of NSW and NZ, and by 1804, England was receiving masts of NZ kaurie or NSW jarrah. (But in 1809, New Zealand cannibals "ate the crew" of Boyd, loading NZ spars for the Cape Town dockyard. High freight rates precluded too much business here, but for many years the navy continued to draw masts from such remote sources.) See Albion also also re ships of Indian teak, Malabar coast, as EICo now already built many of its own ships in India, the Bombay shipbuilder, the Parsi, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy being involved . Jeejeebhoy later becomes first Parsi Baronet and a freeman of City of London.
(Albion, Forests and Sea Power, p. 197, pp. 364-368.)

1804: John Prinsep in London by 1804 laid plans - interesting but premature - to import wool from eastern Australia. The plans involved John Maitland, John Macarthur, Mr. Coles, Mr. Wilson at Monument Yard, Capt. Waterhouse and Mr. Stewart. John Maitland, of Basinghall Street, was an influential wool merchant who had links with Sir Joseph Banks and Macarthur. (See Harold B. Carter, His Majesty's Spanish Flock: Sir Joseph Banks and the Merinoes of George III of England. Sydney, Angus And Robertson, 1964. Harold B. Carter, Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820. London, British Museum (Natural History), 1988.) At an 1804 auction of the King's sheep, Maitland was interested in Macarthur's proposal for a company to produce wool in New South Wales and supported it in company with Hulletts, who'd dummy-bought two ewes for Macarthur, and owned the Argo. At the sale, Banks warned Macarthur of the Obstructive Act of 1788 preventing export of sheep. Later, Macarthur suggested to Lord Camden a Treasury warrant be drawn for the export. A company with a capital of £10,000 was proposed, but the plan went awry. By July 1804, John Prinsep was examined in Council Chamber at Whitehall. (See Sibella Macarthur-Onslow, Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden, pp. 92-95.)
1804: 11 July 1804, wool gentlemen meet inc. Hunter and Waterhouse, both RN, Capts Prentice and Townson of New South Wales Corps, William Wilson of Monument Yard, agent for Robert Campbell and Marsden, and William Stewart Master Mariner of Lambert, Prinsep and Saunders, shipping and East India agents of 147 Leadenhall St, owners of Anne to NSW in 1800. (See also, Sibella Macarthur-Onslow, Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden. [Orig. 1914] Sydney, Rigby, 1973. Pemberton, London Connection, p. 121).

1804: Prinsep and Saunders tendered 16 ships to EICo, see July 1804, (Parkinson p. 143 on Eastern Trade.)

1804:Aurora US owned. Captain - Hussy. 1803? 1804, at "New Holland". Whaler from Nantucket Island. From Wace and Lovett, p. 45.

Year 1804

1804: Active at Penang by 1804: Robert Townsend Farquhar (1776-1830), governor at Penang, succeeding Leith, very energetic, and he reconstructs Fort Cornwallis. French privateers still sail about. Farquhar is succeeded by Philip Dundas, brother of Henry Dundas (Lord Melville). In 1804, Acheen has a civil war, family squabble, the displaced sultan offers Penang a fort and settlement at Acheen, re pepper trade, but the EICo procrastinates. Then the EICo directors went for an Acheen fort, maybe to command northern approaches to the Straits of Malacca. Philip Dundas also shilly-shallied. But in 1805, ambitions grew. The EICo and its Directors were very keen, mentioning Pegu timber nearby as well.
Clodd, Francis Light, pp. 140-148.

1804: HM Buffalo of 1804. RN. Lt William Kent. 12 June 1804-15 October 1804. Cattle, horses. Cumpston's Register, p. 5.

1804: Contest (44 tons). Owners, Kable and Underwood. Captain not given. Launched May 1804. Local Sydney ship. Cumpston's Register, p. 49.

1804: Coromandel (2). Owners, Reeve and Green. Captain John Robinson then George Blakey. 1803 - 7-8 May 1804-19 July 1804. Convict transport. Reeve and Co. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Rose. Owner P. Gardner. Captain James Carey. Sealer, trader to China from Nantucket Island. Cumpston's Register. From, Wace and Lovett.

1804: Fair American of 1804. Owner, J. E. Farrell M/O. Captain J. E. Farrell. 26 March 1804-12 Nov 1804. Also to Manila. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Hannah and Eliza. Owner, W. Rotch. Captain Micajah Gardner. 1806. Whaler, sealer from New Bedford. From, Wace and Lovett.

1804: Raven. (11 tons). Owner, Thomas Raby of Sydney. Captain not given. New by 1804. 23 May 1804. Light coals, cedar timber. Cumpston's Register, p. 49.

1804: Surprise sealer. Owner, Kable and Underwood of Sydney. Capt Rushworth. 19 April 1804-9 April 1804. Bass Strait sealing. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Sophia of 1804. Owners, Not given. Captain William Collins. 1804-16 Jan 1805. Convicts, stores. Cumpston's Register, p. 51.

1804: Policy whaler. Owners, Hurrys. Captain C. S. Foster, Rbt. Sparrow. 1804 - 17 Nov 1804-10 May 1805. Timor, Mollucccas, England, seal/whale oil. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Richard and Mary of 1804. Owners, Spencer and Co. Captain James Lucas. 1804 - 5 January 1805-26 January 1805. Whaling, to England and Moluccas. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Mandarin (of 1804). Owners, Notknown. Captain James Magee. 1804 - Trader. Letter T. H. Perkins by Mandarin Capt James Magee to E. Bumstead at Canton on Madeira wine, other goods, by which time the Perkins firm has ships on N/w coast America, Malay coast, Isle of France/Mauritius. In 1804, TH Perkins to Grant, Forbes and Co. in London who are still unidentified.

1804: Lady Barlow Owners, Campbell and Co. Captain A. McAskill. 21 Jan 1804. Skins, timber, curios, for Campbell Family. Robert Campbell, Sydney. Cumpston's Register, p. 51, has her to Pegu, Bengal, England via Derwent.

1804: Experiment (1). Owner, Wigram and Co., of London. Captain Francis J. Withers. 24 June 1804. Convict transport. Cumpston's Register, p. 51. Presumably, Robert Wigram.

1804: Mary Owners, Boardman and Co. Captain Samuel Balch. Trader from Boston to Manila. From, Wace and Lovett

1804: Mersey. James Wilson Master/Owner. Captain James Wilson. 16 April 1804-24 May 1804. Trader from Fort William. Cumpston's Register. Consignment for Robert Campbell Snr, Sydney.

1804: Pilgrim (of 1804). Owners Boardman and Co. Captain Samuel Delano. 22 Aug 1804-31 Aug 1804. Sealer. Boston, Bradbury and Co. Cumpston's Register, she is sealing in Bass Strait. From, Wace and Lovett.

1804: Pilgrim of 1804. US-owned. Captain Unknown. Sealer. Sealing in Bass Strait by 1804. Aboard is O. F. Smith, an American, who applied to live at Sydney but was refused by Gov. King.

1804: Endeavour (of 1804). Owner not given. Captain Murrell. 1804 - 22 Jan 1805 to Bass Strait. Sealing, fine skins. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Marcia. Owners, Unknown. Captain J. Aicken. 5 July 1804. Wrecked, salvage, taking beche-de-mer. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Endeavour. Owners, Kable and Underwood of Sydney. Captain J. Oliphant. 17 Jan 1804-8 Feb 1804-17 Jan 1804. Sealing. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Myrtle. Owners, Wm. Kinlock and Co. Captain Henry Barber. 18 Oct 1804-31 Dec 1804. Misc, general, spirits, ordered to sea. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Edwin sloop. Sydney owned. Captain William Stewart. 8 Feb 1804. Bass Strait sealing. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Brook Watson. Owners, Goodall and Turner. Captain Obed Worth. Whaling. Goodall and Turner. AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 199.

1804: Antelope. Owner, Daniel Bennett. Captain James Mortlock, John Samuel Parker. Captured. AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 196.

1804: Aeolus (US). Champlin and Minturn. Captain Andrew Mather. 1804-1805. At Sydney 1804-1805. 9 Feb 1805 . Whaler, to China. Sumerset, New York. Cumpston's Register. From, Wace and Lovett.

1804: Active (whaler3), Owner Daniel Bennet, Rotherhithe. Capt Louis Blair. Whaling, AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 193.

1804: Adonis of 1804. Owners Unknown. Captain Robert Turnbull (See above). 25 Aug 1804-19 Sep 1804. Whaling New Zealand. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Swift prize. Bought by Campbell and Co. J. Lawrence. 1804, taken as prize. 17 Nov 1804. Beef, clothing, wine, arrack. Earlier owned by Dutch. Cumpston's Register sees her condemned in Sydney.

1804: Perseverance. US-owned. Captain Unknown. Sealing in Bass Strait by 1804. 1804: Perseverance (of 1804). Owners Fanning and Co. Captain Amasa Delano. Sealer from Boston. From, Wace and Lovett.

1804: Integrity HMC. Sydney owned. Capt Rushworth. Feb 1804 maybe. Port Phillip, Derwent. Cumpston's Register, p. 48.

1804: Union of 1804. US Owners Fanning and Co. Captain J. Pendleton. 27 June 1804-29 August 1804. Sealing, Bass Strait, China. Cumpston's Register.

1804-1805: Champlin and Minturn in December 1804 and 1805 have trader Aeolus from Sumerset (sic) NY, Capt Andrew Mather, to Sydney, thence China. (Item extracted from, Wace and Lovett.)

In 1804-1805, for not-named owners, ship Herald of Salem, Captain Zachary Silsbee, to Tasmania, see Langdon, 1971.

1804: Convict ship Coromandel 1 (2), probably owned as Coromandel I above. Arriving Sydney 7 May 1804.

1804: Convict shipExperiment 1, Arriving Sydney 24 June, 1804.

1804: Active at Penang by 1804: Robert Townsend Farquhar (1776-1830), governor at Penang, succeeding Leith, very energetic, and he reconstructs Fort Cornwallis. French privateers still sail about. Farquar is succeeded by Philip Dundas, brother of Henry Dundas (Lord Melville). In 1804, Acheen has a civil war, family squabble, the displaced sultan offers Penang a fort and settlement at Acheen, re pepper trade, but the EICo procrastinates. Then the EICo directors went for an Acheen fort, maybe to command northern approaches to the Straits of Malacca. Philip Dundas also shilly-shallied. But in 1805, ambitions grew. The EICo and its Directors were very keen, mentioning Pegu timber nearby as well.
Clodd, Francis Light, pp. 140-148.

1804: By 1804, New Zealand "did its bit" re providing naval timber. Captains had been enthusiastic about the woods of NSW and, and by 1804, England was receiving masts of New Zealand kaurie or NSW jarrah. (But in 1809, New Zealand cannibals "ate the crew" of Boyd, loading New Zealand spars for the Cape Town dockyard. High freight rates precluded too much business here, but for many years the navy continued to draw masts from such remote sources.) See Albion also also re ships of Indian teak, from the Malabar coast, as the EICo now already built many of its own ships in India, the Bombay shipbuilder, the Parsi, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy being involved. Jeejeebhoy later became a first Parsi Baronet and a freeman of City of London.
(Albion, Forests and Sea Power, p. 197, pp. 364-368.)

1804: John Prinsep in London by 1804 laid plans - interesting but premature - to import wool from eastern Australia. The plans involved John Maitland, John Macarthur, Mr. Coles, Mr. Wilson at Monument Yard, Capt. Waterhouse and Mr. Stewart. John Maitland, of Basinghall Street, was an influential wool merchant who had links with Sir Joseph Banks and Macarthur. (See Harold B. Carter, His Majesty's Spanish Flock: Sir Joseph Banks and the Merinoes of George III of England. Sydney, Angus And Robertson, 1964. Harold B. Carter, Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820. London, British Museum (Natural History), 1988.) At an 1804 auction of the King's sheep, Maitland was interested in Macarthur's proposal for a company to produce wool in New South Wales and supported it in company with Hulletts, who'd dummy-bought two ewes for Macarthur, and owned the Argo. At the sale, Banks warned Macarthur of the Obstructive Act of 1788 preventing any export of sheep. Later, Macarthur suggested to Lord Camden a Treasury warrant be drawn for the export. A company with a capital of £10,000 was proposed, but the plan went awry. By July 1804, John Prinsep was examined in Council Chamber at Whitehall. (See Sibella Macarthur-Onslow, Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden, pp. 92-95.)
1804: 11 July 1804, wool gentlemen meet inc. Hunter and Waterhouse, both RN, Capts Prentice and Townson of New South Wales Corps, William Wilson of Monument Yard, agent for Robert Campbell and Revd. Marsden, and William Stewart Master Mariner of Lambert, Prinsep and Saunders, shipping and East India agents of 147 Leadenhall St, owners of Anne to NSW in 1800. (See also, Sibella Macarthur-Onslow, Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden. [Orig. 1914] Sydney, Rigby, 1973. Pemberton, London Connection, p. 121).

1804: Prinsep and Saunders tendered 16 ships to EICo, see July 1804, (Parkinson p. 143 on Eastern Trade.)

1804:Aurora US owned. Captain Hussy (?). 1803? 1804, at "New Holland". Whaler from Nantucket Island. From, Wace and Lovett, p. 45.

Year 1805

15 July 1805: To Peter Everitt Mestaer (sic) a Rotherhithe shipbuilder, merchant, London alderman. (His first contract.) Convict transport William Pitt. Shelton´s Accounts No. 26.

1805: Mr Dominicus, the EICO husband in the matter of the seizure of cargo of the Lady Barlow belonging to Robert Campbell. 1805, Lady Barlow affair, Sir Stephen Cottrell, at Council Office (EICO?).

1805: Ceres whaler of 1805. Owner, D. Stevens. Captain Ed Sharp(e). 1804 -- 10 Apr 1805 - 18 June 1805. South whaler. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Aurora. Owners, Daniel Starbuck/Sterbeck. Captain Andrew Merrick/Meryck. 1805 - 21 Apr 1806 - 24 Apr 1806. Whaler. Milford, Bideford. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Eagle brig of 1805. Owners, Campbell and Co. Captain Thomas Graham. 5 Apr 1805 - 28 Jun 1805. To Calcutta. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Honduras packet. Owners, Hurry and Co. Captain Owen Bunker. 1804 - 20 July 1805 - 20 Sep 1805. Seal skins, 7000. Also re William Edwards. Ship a Spanish prize. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Myrtle. Owners, Kinlock and Co. Captain Henry Barber. 4 March 1805- 7 March 1805. Rum, sugar, sundry, to Fort William, East Indies. Also to n/w America. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Nancy. M/O. Captain A. Thompson. 14 Aug 1804. Oil, Bass Strait. Cumpston's Register, p. 50.

1805: Star ship. Owner, Birnie and Co. Captain James Birnie. 22 Feb 1806- 25 March 1806. Whaling off New Zealand. Of London. Plus J. Wilkinson. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Lucy privateer. Owner Daniel Bennett. Captain Alexander Ferguson. 21 April 1806. Whaling or sealing, Peru, a prize ship. Of London. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Sophia. Owners, Campbell and Co. of Sydney. Captain William Collins. 19 Apr 1805 - 12 July 1805. To Hobart, King Island, Bass Strait. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Lady Barlow. Owner, Robert Campbell. Captain A. McAskill probably. 1805 on Thames River. Sealer, trader. McAskill is ex-Castle of Good Hope. This ship about Sydney in May - July 1804, with cattle and stores. Cargo seized in London by London interests protecting their own investments in Australasia.

1805: Herald. Owner, Unknown, American. Captain Zachary T. Silsbee. 1804 - 1805. To Tasmania from Salem. From Wace and Lovett.

1805: Criterion. Owners, Hussey and Co. Captain Peter Chase/Chace. 23 Apr 1805- 28 May 1805. Sealer, trader to China. Tobacco. From Nantucket. She is back in Sydney May-July 806, China and teas, etc. Cumpston's Register. From Wace and Lovett.

1805: Harrington5. Owners, Chace and Co. Captain William Campbell. 27 Jan 1805-27 Feb 1805. General merchandise, then whaling, Peru. Takes two prizes. Cumpston's Register.

1805 circa: King George. Owners, Henry Kable et al. Captain Unknown. Re James Underwood, Simeon Lord. Ship King George built in Sydney for Henry Kable, James Underwood, Simeon Lord and David Dickenson Mann and launched on 30 April 1805. Cumpston's Register, p. 8.

1805: HM Buffalo. RN. Lt. Houston. 27 Nov 1805 - 10 Feb 1806. To Hobart, carries Gov. King and family. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Elizabeth and Mary. Owners, Spencer and Co. Captain John Hingston. 27 Sep 1805 - 8 Nov 1805. Whaling, New Zealand. Cumpston's Register.

1805: More to come US owned. -- Unknown. 1805. Trader from Salem. From Wace and Lovett.

1805: Harriott whaler. Owners, Mathers and Co. Thaddeus Coffin. 1804 - 24 Apr 1805 - 29 May 1805. Whaling, sperm oil. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Hazard. American Owner, Wm. F. Megee. Captain Notknown. 1805. US Trader to EI and China. Supercargo is Saml III Nightingale.

1805: Favorite. American Owner, P. Gardner and D. Whitney. Captain Jonathan Paddock. 1805 - 24 Apr 1805 and 1806 - 11 Jun 1805. Whaler, sealer. New Zealand, Canton, general merchandise. Cumpston's Register. From Wace and Lovett.

1805: Britannia whaler of 1805. Owner, John T. Hill. Captain Amiel Hussey. 1805 - June 1806. Whaler, sealer, off California. Up to 20,000 skins, full whale oil. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Favourite. Owners, Gardiner and Co. Captain John Paddock. 10 March 1806 - 29 July 1806. Sealing, 60,000 skins. Of Nantucket. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Commerce brig. British Owners, James Birnie and Co., London. Captain John Wilkinson. 9 Oct 1805 - 7 Feb 1806. Sealing, timber. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Britannia South Sea whaler. 1805. Details not given. Re Nathaniel Goodspeed.

1805: Brothers (US). Owner, O. Mitchell. Captain Benjamin Worth. 1804-1805. 1805 to Sydney. Whaler from Nantucket Island. From Wace and Lovett, p. 48.

1805: Brothers whaler of 1805. Owner, O. Mitchell. Captain Benjamin Worth. 10 July 1805- 1 Nov 1805. Whaling, New Zealand coast. Driven back. Cumpston's Register. --- 1806: Brothers whaler of 1806. Owner O. Mitchell. Captain Benjamin Worth. 21 July 1806- 17 August 1806. Whaling, NZ coast. Re Obh Mitchell. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Amiante brig. Spanish, presumably. Captain A. Fisk. 1804-1805. 17 May 1805. Prize to Harrington. Sent by Chile, Kent's Group. Name was Santa Francisco y Santo Paulo. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Argo of 1805. Owners, Hulletts and Co. of London. John Baden/Bader. 7 Jun 1805- 15 Sep 1805. Whaling, probably, as by NZ. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Atlantic whaler. Owners, Enderby and Co. Captain William Swain. 3 May 1806 - 29 May 1806. Whaling. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Anne (US). Owner, William Rotch. Captain Jas. Gwinn/Gwynn. 1803 - 1805 to Sydney. Whaler, Sydney, China, England. From New Bedford Named in records is William Rock Jnr. To China. Cumpston's Register. From Wace and Lovett

1805: Sydney of 1805. Owners, Campbell and Co. Captain Austin Forrest. 18 Apr 1805 - 5 October 1805. Cattle for Port Dalrymple. Calcutta to Hobart. She is lost on coast of New Guinea by maybe Feb 1807. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Independence of 1805. Owners, Fanning and Co. Captain Jsh. Townsend. 21 Apr 1805 - 11 Jun 1805. Sealer, Kangaroo Island, Norfolk Island, Canton. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Venus small brig. Campbell and Co. of Sydney. Capt John Calder. 7 May 1805-29 July 1805. Sealing, Bass Strait, coast Peru, Calcutta. Link to William Stewart. Cumpston's Register. She is under Jas. Stewart to Derwent and Penantipodes, skins, by 24 Jan 1806.

1805: Vulture whaler. Owners Mathers and Co. Capt Thomas Folger. 22 Juy 1806-20 Aug 1806. Whaler, Chile and Peru. Cumpston's Register.

1805, US ship Hazard, Wm. F. Megee (probably supercargo), Capt ?

1805, US ship Catherine, Fanning and Co, Capt. Henry Fanning.

1805: and in 7-11/1805 and 7-8-1806, Captain Benjamin Worth is on whaler Brothers from Nantucket, for O. Mitchell, Sydney and New Zealand;

1805-1806: Salem: J. Pierce is owner in 1805/1806 of trader Eliza with Capt. William Richardson, with log keeper Philip Payn Pinel, to Sydney and Norfolk Island, thence China.

no date American William Richardson as master has brig trader Active, from Salem, owned by Jas Cooke, to Hobart, Sydney, Fiji, Canton, Manila in 12/10 and 2/11; William P. Richardson, Freeman Richmond, I. B. Richmond as owner in 2/42 and 7-8/42 has whaler Addison Capt Thos. West from New Bedford, Hobart.

1805: S. C. Phillips in a confused entry in 1805 and maybe 1806 has US trader/whaler (barque) Elizabeth, from Freetown, then Salem, no captain named on one trip, trip has Capt. Isaac Hodge/Hedge, with Jonathan P. Saunders as log keeper; (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett.)

1805: US Capt. Henry Fanning in 1805 is on sealer Catherine from New York (by 1804?) for Fanning and Co., Sydney and King George Sound; (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett.)

1805-1806: US merchants Hussey and Co. have sealer and trader Criterion from Nantucket, Capt. Peter Chase, to Sydney and Hobart, then Fiji, Canton and Nantucket. (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett.)

1805-1806: US merchant J. Pierce is owner in 1805/1806 of trader Eliza, from Salem, with Capt. Wm. Richardson, with log keeper Philip Payn Pinel, to Sydney and Norfolk Island, thence China; (Item extracted from Wace and Lovett)

1805: A smuggler from Boston, Massachusetts, Charles Cabot, attempts to purchase opium from the British, then smuggle it into China under the auspices of British smugglers. (From website based on book: Opium: A History, by Martin Booth Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1996.)

1805 and later: McLardie are traders at Calcutta, in the context of Robert Campbell's trading from Sydney.

1805: The prison on convict transport Tellicherry was insufficiently ventilated, it was complained at the Irish port involved. NB: This ship was owned by John St Barbe of Blackheath, London; she was lost, and was the last ship St Barbe ever sent to NSW.
Con Costello, Botany Bay: The Story of the Convicts Transported from Ireland to Australia, 1791-1853. Cork-Dublin, Mercier, 1987., p. 68

St Barbe's Tellicherry had aboard eight supporters of Robert Emmet. (Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies, pp. 170-171.) St Barbe lost Tellicherry about the Philippines about 1806. Bateson describes St. Barbe as "a prominent London merchant and shipowner", but not as an influential underwriter helping manage the Lloyd's Red Book. Tellicherry was to load China tea, a good indication that by 1805, a former whaler could deal with the East India Company without animosity.
Bateson, Convict Ships, p. 190.

1805: Chace, Chinnery and Co. of Madras, bankrupt in 1805. In 1805: Chace, Chinnery and Co. of Madras, send ships to Sydney.

1805: Patrick Colquhuon, LLD, when writing his major work, A Treatise On The Police Of The Metropolis, was acting as a magistrate for the counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent and Essex. He recommended a water police be created for the Thames River. Patrick Colquhuon was agent for West Indies Nevis 1806-1821 as Patrick and James Colquhuon; and for Nevis, 1821-1848, James Colquhuon, 1825-1851; James Colquhuon agent for St Christopher; from 1802-1845 Patrick and James Colquhuon were the agents for Virgin Islands; from 1842-1850, James Colquhuon the agent for Tobago; from 1806-1844, Patrick and James Colquhuon agents for St Vincent; from 1845-1850, the agent for St Vincent is James Colquhuon; 1816-1826, Patrick and James Colquhuon agents for Dominica, James 1826 till 1852. James and Patrick Junior Colquhuon being nephews of Patrick LLD. See Lillian M. Penson, The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies: A Study in Colonial Administration mainly in the Eighteenth Century. Orig. 1924. London, Frank Cass and Co., reprint 1971., pp. 251ff. Patrick Colquhuon, LL.D., A Treatise On The Police Of The Metropolis. London, 1805.

1805: Sir John Hayes who annexed New Guinea, (New Albion), visits London and is deputised by EICo, made Deputy Master Attendant at Calcutta, succeeds to senior position in 1809, holds position for 21 years.

1805?: Sir Lionel Hook (d. 1810 or 1811) of EICo military Dept., secretary to Gov. of Bengal, brother of Charles Hook a sometime-trader at Sydney, NSW and once an agent for Robert Campbell the Sydney merchant.

1805: Captain Abraham Bristow discovered the Auckland Islands. Bristow later worked for the London based whalers, Mellishes.

1805: The impeachment of Henry Dundas, First Lord of Melville, who had "smeared the image of the admiralty with corruption". See DNB entry on Dundas.

1805: Convict ship William Pitt, owned by Peter Mestaers or Hulletts Bros, 604 tons, Capt. John Boyce. Departing 31 August 1805 from Cork, via Mad., S. Salvadore, Cape, 223 days to Sydney arriving 11 April, 1806. Contractor, Peter Everitt Mestaer. Shelton Contract No. 26, with Peter Everitt Mestaer, dated 15 July, 1805 for 142 convicts. (Bateson, Convict Ships, p. 338.)

1805: Hullett Bros, are partners with Macarthur in Argo, are partners with Blaxland Bros in ship William Pitt which sailed 1 September 1805, with Gregory Blaxland. (Pemberton, London Connection, p. 134).

1805: 18 December 18, 1805, Whitehall, (Under-sec) J. King to Commissioners for the Transport Service, King being directed by Lord Hawkesbury they shall permit Mrs Wiseman the wife of the convict Solomon Wiseman, for embarkation on the transport Alexander, to have passage with her husband in lieu of Mrs. Henshall who has declined such an indulgence. (HO 13/17, pp. 134-135, cited in David T. Hawkings, Bound for Australia. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1988., p. 13, pp. 23-27. (A book helpful for genealogists.)
1805: 19 December, Lord Hawkesbury to A. H. Bradley, Commissioner of Convicts, giving Bradley a list of convicts in his care and asking that he allow 150 free of any infectious disease to be selected from the list and put on board Alexander and Fortune. Hawkings writes that no logs for the Fortune or Alexander have ever been located.

1805: Re London Docks, First West India Docks, almost as large as the EICo docks then in existence. Finished in 1805, at a cost of £168,000. Note: Australian wool when sent in larger quantities to London was unloaded at London Dock, upriver from West India Docks. London Dock, was founded by private subscription, opened on 31 January, 1805; the first ship entering this dock is unknown.
Upriver of Limehouse Reach, the only docks on Thames southside were the Surrey Commercial Docks, which included Greenland Dock, Russian Dock (a small dock), Albion and Canada Docks. Joseph Moore about 1809 organised what became Lady Dock. Brunswick Dock at Blackwall was owned by Perry the shipbuilder, and used only by East Indiamen, Howland's Greenland Dock at Rotherhithe had been used by the South Sea Company.

1805-1806: The Hurry shipyard and complex at Howdon Pans [Newcastle, England], is declared bankrupt in 1806 and assets are gradually sold off. (Tony Barrow, 'The Newcastle Whaling Trade, 1752-1849, The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 75, 1989., pp. 231ff.

1805: Lelia Byrd - American registry; William Shaler, master; arrived Aug. 22, 1805. (This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819)

1805: Tamana - John Hudson, master; built in Hawaii 1805

1805: Atahualpa - Boston; Capt. Adams, master; arrived Aug. 1805, departed Oct. 6, 1805. (This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819)

Yarmouth - arrived Dec. 8, 1805; Samuel Patterson; departed Dec. 22, 1805. (This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819)

1805:: Southern whaler Ferrett, Capt. Skelton, been to Derwent.

1805: Sept., Sydney, Capt. John Hingston, whaler Elizabeth and Mary.

Year 1805

15 July 1805: To Peter Everitt Mestaer (sic) a Rotherhithe shipbuilder, merchant, London alderman. (His first contract.) Convict transport William Pitt. Shelton´s Accounts No. 26.

1805: Ceres whaler of 1805. Owner, D. Stevens. Captain Ed Sharp(e). 1804-10 Apr 1805-18 June 1805. South whaler. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Aurora. Owners, Daniel Starbuck/Sterbeck. Captain Andrew Merrick/Meryck. 1805-21 Apr 1806-24 Apr 1806. Whaler. Milford, Bideford. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Eagle brig of 1805. Owners, Campbell and Co. Captain Thomas Graham. 5 Apr 1805-28 Jun 1805. To Calcutta. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Honduras packet. Owners, Hurry and Co. Captain Owen Bunker. 1804-20 July 1805-20 Sep 1805. Seal skins, 7000. Also re William Edwards. Ship a Spanish prize. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Myrtle. Owners, Kinlock and Co. Captain Henry Barber. 4 March 1805-7 March 1805. Rum, sugar, sundry, to Fort William, East Indies. Also to n/w America. Cumpston's Register.

1804: Nancy. M/O. Captain A. Thompson. 14 Aug 1804. Oil, Bass Strait. Cumpston's Register, p. 50.

1805: Star ship. Owner, Birnie and Co. Captain James Birnie. 22 Feb 1806-25 March 1806. Whaling off New Zealand. Of London. Plus J. Wilkinson. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Lucy privateer. Owner Daniel Bennett. Captain Alexander Ferguson. 21 April 1806. Whaling or sealing, Peru, a prize ship. Of London. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Sophia. Owners, Campbell and Co. of Sydney. Captain William Collins. 19 Apr 1805-12 July 1805. To Hobart, King Island, Bass Strait. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Lady Barlow. Owner, Robert Campbell. Captain A. McAskill probably. 1805 on Thames River. Sealer, trader. McAskill is ex-Castle of Good Hope. This ship about Sydney in May-July 1804, with cattle and stores. Cargo seized in London by London interests (South whalers?) protecting their own investments in Australasia.

1805: Herald. Owner, Unknown, American. Captain Zachary T. Silsbee. 1804-1805. To Tasmania from Salem. From, Wace and Lovett.

1805: Criterion. Owners, Hussey and Co. Captain Peter Chase/Chace. 23 Apr 1805-28 May 1805. Sealer, trader to China. Tobacco. From Nantucket. She is back in Sydney May-July 806, China and teas, etc. Cumpston's Register. From, Wace and Lovett.

1805: Harrington5. Owners, Chace and Co. Captain William Campbell. 27 Jan 1805-27 Feb 1805. General merchandise, then whaling, Peru. Takes two prizes. Cumpston's Register.

1805 circa: King George. Owners, Henry Kable et al. Captain Unknown. Re James Underwood, Simeon Lord. Ship King George built in Sydney for Henry Kable, James Underwood, Simeon Lord and David Dickenson Mann and launched on 30 April 1805. Cumpston's Register, p. 8.

1805: HM Buffalo. RN. Lt. Houston. 27 Nov 1805-10 Feb 1806. To Hobart, carries Gov. King and family. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Elizabeth and Mary. Owners, Spencer and Co. Captain John Hingston. 27 Sep 1805-8 Nov 1805. Whaling, New Zealand. Cumpston's Register.

1805: More to come US owned. -- Unknown. 1805. Trader from Salem. From, Wace and Lovett.

1805: Harriott whaler. Owners, Mathers and Co. Thaddeus Coffin. 1804-24 Apr 1805-29 May 1805. Whaling, sperm oil. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Hazard. American Owner, Wm. F. Megee. Captain Notknown. 1805. US Trader to EI and China. Supercargo is Saml III Nightingale.

1805: Favorite. American Owner, P. Gardner and D. Whitney. Captain Jonathan Paddock. 1805-24 Apr 1805 and 1806 -11 Jun 1805. Whaler, sealer. New Zealand, Canton, general merchandise. Cumpston's Register. From, Wace and Lovett.

1805: Britannia whaler of 1805. Owner, John T. Hill. Captain Amiel Hussey. 1805-June 1806. Whaler, sealer, off California. Up to 20,000 skins, full whale oil. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Favourite. Owners, Gardiner and Co. Captain John Paddock. 10 March 1806-29 July 1806. Sealing, 60,000 skins. Of Nantucket. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Commerce brig. British Owners, James Birnie and Co., London. Captain John Wilkinson. 9 Oct 1805-7 Feb 1806. Sealing, timber. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Britannia South Sea whaler. 1805. Details not given. Re Nathaniel Goodspeed.

1805: Brothers (US). Owner, O. Mitchell. Captain Benjamin Worth. 1804-1805. 1805 to Sydney. Whaler from Nantucket Island. From, Wace and Lovett, p. 48.

1805: Brothers whaler of 1805. Owner, O. Mitchell. Captain Benjamin Worth. 10 July 1805- 1 Nov 1805. Whaling, New Zealand coast. Driven back. Cumpston's Register. - 1806: Brothers whaler of 1806. Owner O. Mitchell. Captain Benjamin Worth. 21 July 1806-17 August 1806. Whaling, New Zealand coast. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Amiante brig. Spanish, presumably. Captain A. Fisk. 1804-1805. 17 May 1805. Prize to Harrington. Sent by Chile, Kent's Group. Name was Santa Francisco y Santo Paulo. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Argo of 1805. Owners, Hulletts and Co. of London. John Baden/Bader. 7 Jun 1805-15 Sep 1805. Whaling, probably, as by New Zealand. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Atlantic whaler. Owners, Enderby and Co. Captain William Swain. 3 May 1806-29 May 1806. Whaling. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Anne (US). Owner, William Rotch. Captain Jas. Gwinn/Gwynn. 1803-1805 to Sydney. Whaler, Sydney, China, England. From New Bedford. Named in records is William Rock Jnr. To China. Cumpston's Register. From, Wace and Lovett.

1805: Sydney of 1805. Owners, Campbell and Co. Captain Austin Forrest. 18 Apr 1805-5 October 1805. Cattle for Port Dalrymple. Calcutta to Hobart. She is lost on coast of New Guinea by maybe Feb 1807. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Independence of 1805. Owners, Fanning and Co. Captain Jsh. Townsend. 21 Apr 1805-11 Jun 1805. Sealer, Kangaroo Island, Norfolk Island, Canton. Cumpston's Register.

1805: Venus small brig. Campbell and Co. of Sydney. Capt John Calder. 7 May 1805-29 July 1805. Sealing, Bass Strait, coast Peru, Calcutta. Link to William Stewart. Cumpston's Register. She is under Jas. Stewart to Derwent and Penantipodes, skins, by 24 Jan 1806.

1805: Vulture whaler. Owners Mathers and Co. Capt Thomas Folger. 22 Juy 1806-20 Aug 1806. Whaler, Chile and Peru. Cumpston's Register.

1805, US ship Hazard, Wm. F. Megee (probably supercargo), Capt ?

1805, US ship Catherine, Fanning and Co, Capt. Henry Fanning.

1805: and in 7-11/1805 and 7-8-1806, Captain Benjamin Worth is on whaler Brothers from Nantucket, for O. Mitchell, Sydney and New Zealand.

1805-1806: Salem: J. Pierce is owner in 1805/1806 of trader Eliza with Capt. William Richardson, with log keeper Philip Payn Pinel, to Sydney and Norfolk Island, thence China.

no date, American William Richardson as master has brig trader Active, from Salem, owned by Jas Cooke, to Hobart, Sydney, Fiji, Canton, Manila in 12/10 and 2/11; William P. Richardson, Freeman Richmond, I. B. Richmond as owner in 2/42 and 7-8/42 has whaler Addison Capt Thos. West from New Bedford, Hobart.

1805: US Capt. Henry Fanning in 1805 is on sealer Catherine from New York (by 1804?) for Fanning and Co., Sydney and King George Sound; (Item extracted from, Wace and Lovett.)

1805 and later: McLardie are traders at Calcutta, in the context of Robert Campbell's trading from Sydney.

1805: Chace, Chinnery and Co. of Madras, bankrupt in 1805. In 1805: Chace, Chinnery and Co. of Madras, send ships to Sydney.

1805: Patrick Colquhuon, LLD, when writing his major work, A Treatise On The Police Of The Metropolis, was acting as a magistrate for the counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent and Essex. He recommended a water police be created for the Thames River. Patrick Colquhuon was agent for West Indies Nevis 1806-1821 as Patrick and James Colquhuon; and for Nevis, 1821-1848, James Colquhuon, 1825-1851; James Colquhuon was agent for St Christopher; from 1802-1845 and Patrick and James Colquhuon were the agents for Virgin Islands; from 1842-1850, James Colquhuon was the agent for Tobago; from 1806-1844, Patrick and James Colquhuon were agents for St Vincent; from 1845-1850, the agent for St Vincent is James Colquhuon; 1816-1826, Patrick and James Colquhuon agents for Dominica, James 1826 till 1852. James and Patrick Junior Colquhuon being nephews of Patrick LLD. See Lillian M. Penson, The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies: A Study in Colonial Administration mainly in the Eighteenth Century. Orig. 1924. London, Frank Cass and Co., reprint 1971., pp. 251ff. [A book written before British readers disapproved of slavery - and it shows]. Patrick Colquhuon, LL.D., A Treatise On The Police Of The Metropolis. London, 1805.

1805: Captain Abraham Bristow discovered the Auckland Islands. Bristow later worked for the London based whalers, Mellishes.

1805: The impeachment of Henry Dundas, First Lord of Melville, who had "smeared the image of the admiralty with corruption". See DNB entry on Dundas.

1805: Convict ship William Pitt, owned by alderman Peter Mestaers or Hulletts Bros, 604 tons, Capt. John Boyce. Departing 31 August 1805 from Cork, via Mad., S. Salvadore, Cape, 223 days to Sydney arriving 11 April, 1806. Contractor, Peter Everitt Mestaer. Shelton Contract No. 26, with Peter Everitt Mestaer, dated 15 July, 1805 for 142 convicts. (Bateson, Convict Ships, p. 338.)

1805: Hullett Bros, partners with Macarthur in ship Argo, are partners with Blaxland Bros in ship William Pitt which sailed 1 September 1805, with Gregory Blaxland. (Pemberton, London Connection, p. 134).

1805: Re London Docks, the first West India Docks, almost as large as the EICo docks then in existence, were finished in 1805, at a cost of £168,000. Note: Australian wool when sent in larger quantities to London was unloaded at London Dock, upriver from West India Docks. London Dock, was founded by private subscription, and was opened on 31 January, 1805; the first ship entering this dock is unknown.
Upriver of Limehouse Reach, the only docks on Thames southside were the Surrey Commercial Docks, which included Greenland Dock, Russian Dock (a small dock), Albion and Canada docks. Joseph Moore about 1809 organised what became Lady Dock. Brunswick Dock at Blackwall was owned by Perry the shipbuilder, and used only by East Indiamen, Howland's Greenland Dock at Rotherhithe had been used by the South Sea Company.

1805: Ship Lelia Byrd - American registry; William Shaler, master; arrived 22 Aug., 1805. (This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819.)

1805: Tamana - John Hudson, master; built in Hawaii 1805.

1805: Atahualpa - Boston; Capt. Adams, master; arrived Aug. 1805, departed Oct. 6, 1805. (This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819.)

1805: Yarmouth - arrived Dec. 8, 1805; Samuel Patterson; departed Dec. 22, 1805. (This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819.)

1805: Southern whaler Ferrett, Capt. Skelton, been to Derwent.

1805: Sept., Sydney, Capt. John Hingston, whaler Elizabeth and Mary.

Year 1806

23 January 1806: To Messrs Mestaer and Locke. (Peter Evet Mestaer´s second contract.) Convict transports Alexander and Fortune. Shelton´s Accounts No. 27.

1806: Sophia. Owner, Campbell and Co. Captain James Lelohf. 14 Feb 1806-21 Feb 1806. Sealing, Bass Strait, a prize named Policy. (Cumpston's Register)

1806: General Wellesley. Owner and Captain not known. 1806 - 13 Feb 1807 - 24 April 1807. Merchant, to New Zealand for spars, Pulo Penang. For Dalrymple and Co. Cumpston's Register.

25 February 1806: Ship Lady Nelson leaves Sydney to return Maori Te Pahi and his sons to the Bay of Islands. The Maori have been given bricks, a house frame and other goods. Te Pahi becomes ill and is nursed by ex-convict George Bruce. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

1806: Dart of 1807. Owners, Hulletts and Co. Captain Richard Smith. 1806 - 8 March 1807 - 9 April 1807. Whaling. Cumpston's Register.

18 March 1806: New Zealand: Ship Argo Captain John Bader again visits Bay of Islands NZ. Maori Ruatara and some others are aboard. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

1806: Elizabeth of 1807. Captain J. Walker. Owner McArthur and Co. 1806 - March 1807. Sydney to Tahiti. Cumpston's Register.

1806: Brothers of 1807. British Owners, Hulletts and Blaxland. Captain Oliver Russell. 1806 - 3 April 1807 - 13 Jun 1807. London, fishery, schooner in frame. Re Blaxland. Cumpston's Register.

20 April 1806: New Zealand: Ex-convict George Bruce on Lady Nelson has been lately flogged. When the vessel reaches North Cape he jumps ship and goes to Bay of Islands. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

27 April 1806: London-New Zealand: Whaler Ferret reaches London with aboard Maori Te Mahanga (Morehanga). The first Maori known to have visited England. He meets John Savage again and in London also meets King George III and Queen Charlotte. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

Late April 1806: New Zealand: Lady Nelson again visits Bay of Islands and returns Maori Te Pahi and his sons. The ship's carpenter starts to erect Te Pahi's house. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

1806: Jefferson. Owner, B. Rotch. Captain Robert Barnes/Brock. 1806 - 1814 - 1813. Whaler from New Bedford. From Wace and Lovett

12 June 1806: Ship Alexander reaches Portsmouth with Maori Teina and Maki aboard. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

13 June 1806: Whaler Ferret leaves London for Sydney with Maori Te Mahanga aboard. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

17 June 1806: Ship Venus, Captain Samuel Chace, is taken piratically by convicts at Port Dalrymple (Launceston). Is sailed to New Zealand. Aboard her are two women, Charlotte Badger and Catherine Hagerty. The ship is about Bay of Islands July and August. Some of her people are left at Rangihoua Bay. The ship then went down the east coast of the North Island, kidnapping several Maori women who are sold to rival tribes who eventually killed them. These problems become subject of a retaliatory raid in 1818. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

27 June 1806: Ship Alexander arrives to London. Maori Teina and Maki come under the care of Rev. Joseph Hardcastle of the London Missionary Society and he tries to find them a passage back to Sydney. Unfortunately, Teina died and Maki was kidnapped by a criminal and became lost. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

1806: Fortune EICo extra ship. Owner, Mestier and Co. (Peter E. Mestaer?) Captain Henry Moore. 1805 - 12 July 1806 - 21 Aug 1806. Prize, carries pigs, coal, copper, timber. Cumpston's Register.

18 August 1806: Ship Ocean, Captain Bristow, discovers the Auckland Islands. (From a wikipedia page on Year 1806 in New Zealand)

1806: Fortune. Owner, Peter Evet Mestaers (?), Captain Henry Moore. Convict transport. See Bateson.

1806: Sinclair extra ship. Owner William Osbourne? Captain J. H. Jackson. 1805 - 5 Aug 1806 - 5 Oct 1806. China, seal skins, coal, timber. Transport Hon Co's Extra Ship. (Cumpston's Register)

1806: More to come 25 August 1806 ship wrecked Middleton Reef. Name not given. (Cumpston's Register)

1806: Eliza (of 1806). Owner J. Pierce. Captain William Richardson. Trader to China. From Salem. Also to Norfolk Island.

1806: Alexander (2). Owner, John Locke. Captain Richard Brooks. 1805 - 20 Aug 1806 - 12 Nov 1806. Convict transport, then oil and skins. Earlier named Atlas. Cumpston's Register names Locke here. Bateson.

1806: Young William storeship, Owner Daniel Bennett, Capt William Watson. 7 July 1807, 14 Sep 1807. Govt storeship, whaling. Cumpston's Register.

1806: Adonis of 1806. Owners, Daniel Starbuck et al, Milford. Captain Robert Turnbull. 1806. Whaling. "And others". Also captains Robert Thomson and William Melville. (AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 194.)

1806: Adventure (of 1806). Owner, Daniel Bennett, Blackheath. Captain John Page, Wm Parker. Whaling. AGE Jones, Ships Employed, p. 194.

1806: Tellicherry. Owner, John St Barbe. Captain Thomas Cuzens. 15 Feb 1806 - 6 Apr 1806. Convict transport. Intended for China, Bengal. Lost about the Philippines, Bateson. (Cumpston's Register.)

1806: William Pitt of 1806. Owners, Hulletts. Captain John Boyce. 1805 - 11 Apr 1806 - 25 Jun 1806. Convict transport, then to China. Re Peter Everitt or Peter Evet Maesters. (Cumpston's Register. Bateson.)

1806: Parramatta of 1807. Owners Hulletts and Co. Capt John Glenn/Glynn. 3 April 1807-17 Jun 1807. Merchant, to Tahiti for pork. (Cumpston's Register.)

In 1805-1806: James Gwinn (sic), in 5-6/05, 2-3/06 is captain of whaler Anne from New Bedford, for owner William Rotch, Sydney and Norfolk Island, whaling, China and England and in 9-11/1808 Gwinn on same ship whaling for B. Rotch and in 1812 also similar by New Zealand.

1805-1806: in 7-11/1805 and 7-8-1806, Capt Benjamin Worth is on whaler Brothers from Nantucket, for O. Mitchell, Sydney and New Zealand.

By 1806, William Bignell (who remains little known), 1 contract for a convict ship with Shelton. By 1806, Messrs Mestaer and Locke, 2 contracts with Shelton for convict ships.
Note: It is known that the whaler investor John St Barbe had a sister Catharine who married William Bignell, but it is not known for certain if her husband was a partner of her brother John. He probably was, as part of a family firm.

1806: 9 January, 1806: Convicts Hawkins and Cording were sent on board Fortune, then to sail for NSW. Fortune's muster of convicts was mixed with the muster of Alexander. On Fortune was Capt Henry Moore (Lt, RN). These transports were to sail with a ship commanded by William Bligh, who was going out to become governor of NSW. Hawkings says the two transports had 306 convicts, which rather conflicts with Shelton's naming of 298 cons. Hawkings lists the other ships, which set sail on 28 January, 1806, with Henry Moore complaining he had not got all his guard aboard. The inventory of private goods sent in Fortune is printed in Sydney Gazette for 13 July, 1806. Fortune (1) departed England 28 January 1806, arriving Sydney 12 July, 1806. Convict Hawkins was put to government work at Castle Hill. (Hawkings, Bound for Australia, pp. 3-4, pp.27-32.
Shelton's Contracts No 27, dated 23 January, 1806, with Messrs Mestaer and Locke, with ships Alexander and Fortune for 298 convicts. Shelton charged £322/14/6d for this.
Departing 28 January 1806 from England, convict ship Fortune 1, 620 tons, possibly owned Mestaers, Capt. Henry Moore. Arriving Sydney 12 July, 1806. Contractors Mestaer and Locke. Shelton's Contract No. 27, with Messrs Mestaer and Locke, in the Alexander and Fortune, dated 23 January, 1806, for a total of 298 convicts.
Bateson, Convict Ships, p. 338. By now, see for example, J. D. Shearer, Bound for Botany Bay: Impressions of Transportation and Convict Life. Sydney, Summit Books, 1976.)

1806: Departing March 1806 from England, convict ship Alexander I, 278 tons. Capt. Richard Brooks. Contractors, Messrs Mestaer and Locke. Arriving Sydney 20 August, 1806. (Brooks had a descendant in Armidale, the writer Geoff Blomfield.)
By 1810, Captain Richard Brooks was using a trading ship, Simon Cock. By 1810, Birnies are said to be the only merchant and general agents regularly trading to NSW.

Convict transport William Pitt. Arriving Sydney 11 April, 1806.

8 September 1806: New Zealand: Ship Richard and Mary Captain Leikins leaves Port Jackson for England carrying Maori (Maa)Tara, son of Te Pahi. (From a wikipedia page on year 1806 in New Zealand).

September 1806: New Zealand: Ship Argo returns to Port Jackson. Captain Bader discharges Maori Ruatara without pay. Ruatara meets Rev. Samuel Marsden for the first time. (From a wikipedia page on year 1806 in New Zealand.)

1806: In October, 1806, in London, William Fairlie, of the India house Fairlie, Ferguson and Co., and William Wilson, offered themselves as security for the further financial good behaviour of Robert Campbell. (Fairlie was an associate of David Scott Snr from their mutual days in India. His connection with Campbell means that Robert Campbell in Sydney has several merchant networks to connect with, including the network of David Scott Snr, which was international. However, the Lady Barlow affair had destabilised Wilson's own affairs too much, and after Wilson's bankruptcy in February, 1811, he ceased to act as agent for Robert Campbell. (On the Lady Barlow affair see Margaret Steven, Trade, Tactics and Territory: Britain in the Pacific, 1783-1823. Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 1983., p. 102.)

12 October 1806: Whaling ship Albion Captain Cuthbert Robertson, leaves Port Jackson. Maori Ruatara joins the crew. (From a wikipedia page on year 1806 in New Zealand)

1806: After 1806, female convicts were sent in separate ships, except for the Providence in 1811. (Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies, p. 125.)

1806: 18 December, 1806: Shelton's Contract No. 28, taken with William Bignell in ship Sydney Cove, Capt. William Edwards, re 113 convicts. Shelton charged £192/pounds, 15/4d. (Bignell was a sometime-associate of St Barbe.) Departing 11 January 1807 from Falmouth - Arriving Sydney 18 June, 1807.
However, 11 July, 1807, (See Hainsworth, Builders, pp. 82-91), re a letter from Sydney merchant Simeon Lord to Gov. Bligh, a suggestion Sydney Cove was technically owned by Thos. W. Plummer of London, and Bligh was inquisitive about this. (?)

December 1806: Whaler Ferret returns to Sydney from England with Maori Te Mahanga on board. (From a wikipedia page on year 1806 in New Zealand)

18 December 1806: To William Bignell (his first contract). Convict transport Sydney Cove. Shelton´s Accounts No. 28. Presuambly a partner with John St Barbe and John Green of the firm St Barbe, Green and Bignell, ships husbands and insurance brokers of 33 Seething Lane London. This firm was still operating by 17 November 1807 when Captain Liston on their ship Transit was bound for St Domingo and Liston had a brush with a French privateer as he informed his owners. The firm was involved in London re Sydney Cove in a deal with Kable and Co., a Sydney company formed by ex-convicts James Underwood Henry Kable and Simeon Lord, so the St Barbe applied for the contract to transport. Here then is a rare case of ex-convicts arranging a convict transport, to depart as it happened from Portsmouth. The convict contractor names St Barbe, Green and Bignell, and the Mangles family are mentioned as slavers as part of a syndicate operating about 1789-1793 in an online item, N. Draper, ´The City of London and slavery: evidence from the first dock companies, 1795-1800´, Economic History Review, 61, 2, 2008, pp. 432-466.