HMS Swallow (1824)

HMS Swallow was a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Richard Symons, Little Falmouth as the packet ship Marquis of Salisbury for Captain Sutton, launched in 1819 and acquired by the Royal Navy in July 1824.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Swallow.
History
United Kingdom
Name: Marquis of Salisbury (1819–1824)
Owner: Captain Sutton (1819–1824)
Builder: Richard Symons, Little Falmouth
Laid down: 1817
Launched: 1819
Fate: Sold in 1824
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Swallow
Acquired: July 1824
Fate: Sold in 1836.
United Kingdom
Name: South Australian (1836–1837)
Owner: South Australian Company (1836–1837)
Fate: Wrecked in Rosetta Harbor, Encounter Bay on 8 December 1837
Status: Protected shipwreck site
General characteristics
Type: brig-sloop
Tons burthen: 236 (bm)
Length: 87 ft
Beam: 25 ft
Draught: 6 ft

From 24 October 1821 her master was Lieutenant Thomas Baldock, RN. Lieutenant Smyth Griffith, RN, assumed command on 25 November 1831.[1]

On 16 October 1834, HMS Swallow capsized in the Gulf of Mexico. Her masts were cut off and her guns were thrown overboard before she was righted. She put into Havana, Cuba for repairs.[2]

The Royal Navy sold her in 1836 to the South Australian Company, who renamed her South Australian. Chartered to carry free colonists and cargo to South Australia, she sailed from Portsmouth under the command of Captain Alexander Allen, arriving in South Australia on 22 April 1837.

Fate

South Australian was wrecked in Rosetta Harbor, Encounter Bay on 8 December 1837, after she broke her anchor during a storm.[3][4]

The wreck site was located in April 2018 by a team including personnel from the following organizations – the Department for Environment and Water, the Silentworld Foundation, the South Australian Maritime Museum, the Australian National Maritime Museum, Flinders University Maritime Archaeology Program and the MaP Fund.[5] On 5 July 2018, a protected zone was declared under the state's Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981 over the wreck site at 35°34.641′S 138°36.213′E.[6]

See also

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Howat (1984), p. 24.
  2. "Ship News". The Standard (2375). 20 December 1834.
  3. "The Hobart Town Courier, Friday 26 January 1838, p.2". Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  4. "South Australian". Australian National Shipwreck Database. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  5. "South Australian". Department for Environment and Water. South Australian government. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  6. Spiers, David (5 July 2018). "HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS ACT 1981 Notice under Section 7(1)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 2728. Retrieved 14 August 2018.

References

  • Howat, J.N.T. (1984). South American packets : the British packet service to Brazil, the River Plate, the West Coast (via the Straits of Magellan), and the Falkland Islands, 1808-80. York, England: Postal History Society in Association with William Sessions. ISBN 0900657952.

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