Enchantress (1825 ship)

Enchantress was launched at Bristol in 1825. She was wrecked on 16 July 1835.

For other ships with the same name, see Enchantress (ship).

History
United Kingdom
Name: Enchantress
Builder: Bristol[1]
Launched: 1825[1]
Fate: Wrecked 16 July 1835
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 375,[1] or 376 (bm)

Career

Enchantress first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1826 with Taylor, master, Drews', owners, and trade London–Rio de Janeiro.[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1830 Roxburg Innes & Co. London–Trinidad LR

On 23 November 1832 Captain D. Roxburg sailed from England for Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales.[2] She arrived at Hobart on 30 March 1833 and at Sydney on 24 April 1833. She brought seven assisted immigrants. One of her passengers was Isaac Friedman, the first Hungarian to settle in Australia.[Note 1]

Enchantress, Captain Roxburgh, sailed for Mauritius on 11 July 1933. Enchantress, Captain David Roxborough, arrived in Port Jackson from Mauritius on 16 January 1834. She was transporting one military prisoner who had been convicted of mutiny at Port Louis, Mauritius.

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1835 Roxburg Roxburg & Co. London–Sydney LR

Fate

Enchantress, Roxburgh, master, was lost on 16 or 17 July 1835. She was coming from England when she hit some rocks and sank off the south-west coast of Bruny Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, at the mouth of the Derwent River, Van Diemens Land.

By some accounts, all on board survived.[4][5] Alternatively, estimates of the number of lives lost range between 17 and perhaps 50.[6] Captain David Roxburgh was among the survivors.

Notes
  1. Friedman went on to play a leading role in the establishment of the Hobart Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in Australia.[3]

Citations
  1. LR (1826), Seq.№E642.
  2. LR (1833), "Ships sailing to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales".
  3. Attila Urmenyhazi, 'Friedman, Isaac (1805–1875)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, , accessed 16 December 2019.
  4. "Ship News". The Standard (2697). 31 December 1835.
  5. "Two More Shipwrecks". Cornwall Chronicle. 25 July 1835.
  6. "Tasmanian shipwrecks", Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks.
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