Dart (1818 ship)

History


Name:	Dart
Builder:	Sunderland
Launched:	1818
Fate:	Wrecked in March 1838
General characteristics
Type:	Brig
Tons burthen:	108 (bm)
Propulsion:	Sail

Dart was a merchant ship built at Sunderland, England, in 1818. She made three voyages transporting convicts from Mauritius to Australia. She was wrecked in 1838.

Career

Captain George Griffin commanded Dart between 1833 and 1837 voyaging to Newcastle, Mauritius, Swan River, King George Sound, Moreton Bay, and Norfolk Island, with cargoes of coal, wool, wheat, barley, hides, and opossum skins.

She transported one convict, Daniel Mitchell, from Mauritius in 1831, and one or more convicts in 1833. Lastly, Dart left Mauritius with two female convicts and arrived in Sydney on 9 July 1834.

Fate

While on a voyage for King George Sound, under the command of Captain Patton, sailing from Holdfast Bay, South Australia, on 29 March 1838, Dart went ashore on the Troubridge Shoals in Gulf St Vincent and was wrecked. There was no loss of life.

References

Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships, 1787–1868, Sydney, 1974. ISBN 0-85174-195-9

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