Britannia (ship)

Britannia (ship)

The " Britannia " was a whaler wrecked off the New South Wales Coast in 1806.

The "Britannia" was a large fullrigged whaler built in 1783 in Bridport, England and was owned by the whaling firm Samuel Enderby & Co. Under the command of Nathaniel Goodspeed the ship was wrecked at 2am on 25 August 1806. It was wrecked on either Middleton Reef or Elizabeth Reef some 297 miles East of the Clarence River Heads in New South Wales. The ship struck the reef several times before being lifted onto the reef where its back was broken. The lifeboats were lowered. One was immediately smashed but two others with nineteen men aboard got away. Five men stayed aboard. Two were rescued the next day while the other three found another boat and launched it with water and biscuits in it. The three boats with 24 men aboard headed for Newcastle. On the 29th of August one of the boats carrying eight men was separated from the other two by a gale. It was never seen again. The survivors reached Newcastle on 8 September and Port Jackson on 13 September 1806. [ "Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850", Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0 589 07112 2 p43 ]

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