Michael Hogan (shipowner)
Michael Hogan[1] (1766-1833) was an Irish-born shipowner involved in the early settlement of Australia.
Michael Hogan was born in Ireland in 1766. Between 1780 and 1784 he served as a seaman and midshipman in the Royal Navy. After leaving the navy he sailed as a seaman on trading voyages to India and China before becoming owner and captain of a ship trading between India and Europe.[2]
Under the command of Hogan, Marquis Cornwallis departed Cork, Ireland on 9 August 1795, carrying 163 male and 70 female convicts. She also carried 36 soldiers of the New South Wales Corps, and their families. About a month into the voyage Hogan had to put down a mutiny, with the result that seven convicts and a sergeant, one of the mutineers, died of their injuries, including flogging. Marquis Cornwallis then stayed for almost a month at the Cape, re-provisioning. She arrived at Port Jackson on 11 February 1796.[3] In all, 11 male convicts died during the course of the voyage.
Hogan settled his family in New York in 1802, but continued to trade in various ships with Valparaíso, Chile and other south Pacific ports. In 1820 he was appointed U.S. Consul and Navy Agent at Valparaíso. He died in 1833.[2]
His son William Hogan was a United States Representative from New York from 1831 to 1833.
The Hogan Group of islands in Bass Strait in between the Australian mainland and Tasmania is named after him.
References
- ↑ "Hogan, Michael (?–1833)". Australian Dictionary of Biography 1. Canberra: Australian National University. 1966. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Log, ship portrait and charts for the ship Marquis Cornwallis, 1793, 1796, State Library of NSW, retrieved 2014-12-16
- ↑ Bateson, Charles (1974). The Convict Ships, 1787-1868. Sydney. ISBN 0-85174-195-9.
Further Reading
- Styles, Michael H (2003), Captain Hogan : seaman, merchant, diplomat on six continents, Six Continent Horizons, ISBN 978-0-9744347-0-4
- Styles, Michael H (2003), Michael Hogan : a family addendum, Six Continent Horizons, ISBN 978-0-9744347-1-1
- Hall, Barbara (2000), A desperate set of villains : the convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis, Ireland to Botany Bay 1796, B. Hall, ISBN 978-0-646-39361-2
- Log book of the ship Marquis Cornwallis, 1 February to 1 November 1796, 1796, retrieved 16 December 2014
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