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78353
Surname: Vessel Gurnett
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1826 12 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Seized by escaping convicts. Belonged to Mr. Street of Sydney


78356
Surname: Vessel Gurnett
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1826 29 April
Place: -
Source: Australian
Details: Narrowly escaped being wrecked after being driven past Newcastle in a gale.


78420
Surname: Vessel Gurnett
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1827 20 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: 15 tons. Conveying prisoners of the Crown to settlers at Newcastle. No guard on board


78438
Surname: Vessel Gurnett
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1827 18 April
Place: -
Source: Australian
Details: Passengers forced to walk from Port Stephens to Newcastle after the Gurnett was driven by gales past the port


77321
Surname: Vessel Halcyon
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1808 27 November
Place: Newcastle
Source: SG
Details: Thomas Shirley convict at Newcastle Settlement drowned in trying to rescue the 'Halcyon' in gale force weather


85516
Surname: Vessel Hannah
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 3 September
Place: Port Stephens
Source: MM
Details: From Clarence River to Sydney. Passed the hull of a vessel with loss of masts within a mile of Port Stephens


87642
Surname: Vessel Harriett
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1852 17 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Built by Fraser and Sutherland. Keel 60 ft.; depth of hold 8'4"; beam over all 17ft 3 1/2"; length over all 80ft. Built after the Aberdeen clipper model (an Aberdonian having moulded her)


87490
Surname: Vessel Harrietta
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1852 10 January
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Schooner rigged vessell owned by John Henderson. Christenend by Miss Henderson for whom she was named


96611
Surname: Vessel Harriette
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1852 11 December
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Nathaniel McPhail, second son of Thomas McPhail of Newcastle drowned at sea in the schooner Harriette


77522
Surname: Vessel Hawkesbury Packet
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1816 6 July
Place: Port Stephens
Source: SG
Details: Owned by Solomon Wiseman. Commanded by Edward Watson. Sheltered at Port Stephens in inclement weather. Due to low supplies 2 men dispatched for Newcastle. George Yates and Nicholas Thompson stripped and mistreated by natives on their way to the settlement


78525
Surname: Vessel Hawkesbury Packet
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1828 6 August
Place: Port Stephens
Source: Australian
Details: Forced into Port Stephens while attempting to sail from Newcastle to Sydney


90881
Surname: Vessel Henri
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1852 26 June
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Wrecked north of Lake Macquarie. One sailor drowned


88144
Surname: Vessel Hero
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1840 February
Place: Newcastle
Source: CJ
Details: Carpenter from the Hero drowned in the harbour after falling overboard


77286
Surname: Vessel Hope
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1806 28 December
Place: -
Source: SG
Details: Taking cedar and coals to Sydney from King's Town


78600
Surname: Vessel Hope
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1830 3 September
Place: -
Source: Australian
Details: 24 Tons. Taking coals from Newcastle to Sydney. Captain Brown


78801
Surname: Vessel Hope
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1832 23 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: SH
Details: 24 tons. Captain Brown. To Port Jackson with coals


77285
Surname: Vessel Hunter
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1806 28 December
Place: -
Source: SG
Details: Taking cedar and coals to Sydney from King's Town


80508
Surname: Vessel Isabella
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1833 20 August
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Government schooner Isabella, Captain Hanson, taking detachment of 17th regt., to Newcastle


80536
Surname: Vessel Isabella
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1834 22 August
Place: Newcastle
Source: Australian
Details: Government schooner Isabella for Newcastle with 40 convicts under military guard


82156
Surname: Vessel Isabella
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1836 12 August
Place: -
Source: Australian
Details: Captain Maughan. Cargo of coals from Newcastle to Sydney