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- ↑ Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2 p53
- ↑ The late tempestuous weather, Sydney Gazette, 6 July 1816, Retrieved 21 February 2013
- ↑ "Sydney". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser . FOURTEENTH (659). New South Wales, Australia. 6 July 1816. p. 2 – via National Library of Australia.
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