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Nautilus Brig
Built and registered in Calcutta. Dimensions: 70 tons; Crew: 10 (qpprox.)
Arrived in Sydney from Calcutta on 13 March 1816 under the command and ownership of its master, Edward Edwards, with a speculative cargo of merchandise. The return voyage to Calcutta via Batavia in November 1816 ended in disaster when the Nautilus was wrecked on Point Ross at Newcastle while trying to negotiate the channel between Nobby's Island and the entrance to the the Hunter River. The vessel foundered on 24 November and the crew was saved. Details of the wreck are not recorded. Edward Edwards, her master, was suspected of being implicated in the escape of some prisoners. The wreck remained there for several years, and, as indicated by Macquarie, was finally removed during the construction of the breakwater (Macquarie Pier) from the headland (South Head) to Nobby's (Coal Island).

Northumberland (3) - East Indiaman
Built by Wells, launched in December 1780. Three decks; length: approx. 145 ft.; breadth: 35 ft.; 784 tons.
Six (6) voyages to India and China between 1781 and 1796: (1) June 1781 - May 1784 (St Helena & Bengal); (2) April 1785 - May 1787 (Bombay); (3) April 1788 - August 1789 (Bombay & Bengal); (4) April 1791 - July 1792 (Madras & Bengal); (5) July 1793 – August 1794 (Bengal); and (6) May 1795 - February 1797 (China). The Northumberland was part of the convoy of HEIC ships contracted to transport three companies of men of the 77th. Regiment to Bombay in 1788.
[Source: Farrington, A. Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834. pp. 481-482].

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