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References
- ↑ "Ships News". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 7 April 1810, p.1. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
- 1 2 "Ships News". The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, Saturday 7 November 1818, p.2. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
- ↑ Charles Bateson (1972). Australian Shipwrecks – vol 1 1622–1850. Sydney: AH and AW Reed. p. 55. ISBN 0-589-07112-2.
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