HMS Fly (1831)

HMS Fly (1831)

HMS "Fly" was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. "Fly" was launched on from Pembroke Dockyard on 25 August 1831. During the early to mid 1840s, she charted numerous routes (trade/shipping-related and otherwise) through and from many locations, primarily around and off Australia's North-east coast and nearby islands. Such islands included Whitsunday Island and the Capricorn Islands.

After being discovered during the survey of the Gulf of Papua, New Guinea, the Fly River was named after the "Fly". For the most of its seaworthy existence, the "Fly" was captained by Francis Price Blackwood. She returned to the UK and was laid up as a coal hulk in 1855. During this part of her career, she was designated C2, and then C70. She was finally broken up in 1903.

References

* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010105b.htm Ann Mozley, 'Blackwood, Francis Price (1809 - 1854)', Australian Dictionary of Biography]
*citebook|last=Jukes|first=J.|title=Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly
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