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Her first trading voyage from [[West India Docks|West India Export docks]] in London was to the [[Australia|Australian penal colonies]]. On board was Captain William D'Oyley of the [[Bengal]] Artillery and his family. She cleared the Thames on 18 December 1833, and set sail the next day with favourable winds.</ref><ref name="Peek" /> After several stops and mishaps<ref name="Caledonian Mercury">{{cite news |title=Charles Eaton (ship) at Cowes for repairs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28758486/charles_eaton_ship_at_cowes_for/ |accessdate=23 February 2019 |agency=newspapers.com |publisher=The Caledonian Mercury |date=11 Jan 1834 |page=4 |quote=Shipping Intelligence. Cowes, Jan. 5. The Charles Eaton, Moore, from London to. New, South. Wales, and the Active, Holman, from Portsmouth to Bristol, have put back, the. former with bowsprit sprung and cutwater damaged, and the latter with the hull cut down to the water's edge, having been in contact. Jan. 6. The Charles Eaton, in being towed into the harbour, grounded, and remains.}}</ref> she left Falmouth , England for good on 5 February 1834 with a cargo of [[Calico|calicoes]] and [[lead]].<ref name="Pyke">{{cite web |last1=Pyke |first1=Roger |last2=McInnes |first2=Allan |title=Thomas Prockter Ching |url=http://launcestonthen.co.uk/index.php/the-people/thomas-prockter-ching/ |website=launcestonthen |accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="Peek" /> |
Her first trading voyage from [[West India Docks|West India Export docks]] in London was to the [[Australia|Australian penal colonies]]. On board was Captain William D'Oyley of the [[Bengal]] Artillery and his family. She cleared the Thames on 18 December 1833, and set sail the next day with favourable winds.</ref><ref name="Peek" /> After several stops and mishaps<ref name="Caledonian Mercury">{{cite news |title=Charles Eaton (ship) at Cowes for repairs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28758486/charles_eaton_ship_at_cowes_for/ |accessdate=23 February 2019 |agency=newspapers.com |publisher=The Caledonian Mercury |date=11 Jan 1834 |page=4 |quote=Shipping Intelligence. Cowes, Jan. 5. The Charles Eaton, Moore, from London to. New, South. Wales, and the Active, Holman, from Portsmouth to Bristol, have put back, the. former with bowsprit sprung and cutwater damaged, and the latter with the hull cut down to the water's edge, having been in contact. Jan. 6. The Charles Eaton, in being towed into the harbour, grounded, and remains.}}</ref> she left Falmouth , England for good on 5 February 1834 with a cargo of [[Calico|calicoes]] and [[lead]].<ref name="Pyke">{{cite web |last1=Pyke |first1=Roger |last2=McInnes |first2=Allan |title=Thomas Prockter Ching |url=http://launcestonthen.co.uk/index.php/the-people/thomas-prockter-ching/ |website=launcestonthen |accessdate=23 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="Peek" /> |
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==The Wreck== |
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From Sydney to India, struck the Great Detached Reef, approximately 40 miles east of the [[Sir Charles Hardy Islands]], on the outer Barrier Reef on 15 August 1834. |
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Six of the crew stole the boats and set out for [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Timor]] which they reached about two months later. |
Six of the crew stole the boats and set out for [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Timor]] which they reached about two months later. |
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The two boys, John Ireland [cabin boy] and William D’Oyley [child passenger who was the son of Captain D’Oyley of the Bengal Artillery] were treated kindly by their new owner and they were adopted by the natives. |
The two boys, John Ireland [cabin boy] and William D’Oyley [child passenger who was the son of Captain D’Oyley of the Bengal Artillery] were treated kindly by their new owner and they were adopted by the natives. |
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==Rescue== |
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On 3 June 1836 schooner, the ''Isabella'' commanded by Captain Charles Morgan Lewis, was dispatched from Sydney to make a search for the lost ship. Then on 19 June rescue came months later by the ‘Isabella’, only Ireland and four-year-old William D’Oyley had survived. They were handed over to the Captain of the Isabella, who returned them to Sydney. The ship also carried back skulls believed to be those of the murdered passengers and crew.<ref name="Oceans 2018" /> |
On 3 June 1836 schooner, the ''Isabella'' commanded by Captain Charles Morgan Lewis, was dispatched from Sydney to make a search for the lost ship. Then on 19 June rescue came months later by the ‘Isabella’, only Ireland and four-year-old William D’Oyley had survived. They were handed over to the Captain of the Isabella, who returned them to Sydney. The ship also carried back skulls believed to be those of the murdered passengers and crew.<ref name="Oceans 2018" /> |
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| History | |
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| Name | Charles Eaton |
| Namesake | Charles Eaton, former Port Master of Coringa |
| Builder | William Smoult Temple, Coringa, near Madras, India |
| Launched | 1833 |
| Fate | Wrecked 1833; burnt 1834 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 350, or 400(bm) |
| Sail plan | Full sail |
Charles Eaton, was a merchantman launched in 1833. She was wrecked in 1833 and her passengers and crew attacked by headhunters in the Pacific.
Career
Reputedly a fine-looking wood barque, she was built in a shipbuilding yard at Coringa, near Madras in India, where she was launched in January 1833. Registered in London at 313 tons[1] to carry 350 tons burden, She was built of the best Teak, and had two flush decks, forecastle, bust head, and quarter galleries. She was coppered to the wales in chunam and felt.
Named after a Captain Charles Eaton, a former ship’s captain, trader and owner of several ships, who given up the sea to settle ashore as the Port Master of Coringa, a town to the north of Madras. He died there in 1827. One of his daughters, Sophia, married William Gibson, at one time the manager of a shipbuilding yard in the region. Eaton’s son, Captain Charles W. Eaton, took over his father’s role as Coringa’s Port Master from 1828–1838 and was the part-owner of at least three merchant ships.
The Charles Eaton under the command of Captain Fowle arrived in London with 1000 chests of indigo worth about £45,000. On 14 June 1833 ‘Lloyd’s Shipping List’, had noted that: The cargo saved from the James Sibbald, built in Bombay, and wrecked on reefs off Coringa in 1832,[2] has been reshipped per Charles Eaton.
Advertised for sale in the Guardian and Public Ledger of London as late as 6 September 1833, she was bought by Gledstanes & Co for use as a fast sailing passenger ship capable of use for general purposes.
Her first trading voyage from West India Export docks in London was to the Australian penal colonies. On board was Captain William D'Oyley of the Bengal Artillery and his family. She cleared the Thames on 18 December 1833, and set sail the next day with favourable winds.</ref>[3] After several stops and mishaps[4] she left Falmouth , England for good on 5 February 1834 with a cargo of calicoes and lead.[5][3]
The Wreck
She was en-route from Sydney to Singapore for Canton by way of the Torres Strait leaving Sydney on 29 July 1834, when she was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands. Murray Island, Queensland on 15 August 1834.
Six of the crew stole the boats and set out for Timor which they reached about two months later. Master: Captain J. G. Moore. Four of the crew managed to sail one of the boats to Batavia.
Of the 27 persons and the ship's dog Portland remaining with the wreck, only the two boys survived, the rest were killed by the local natives.
Those abandoned at the wreck made two rafts, then set out for the mainland. After days and nights of misery without food and water, they were captured by Aborigines, nearly all were murdered including the Mother of William D'Oyley.
The natives beheaded their victims, and kept the skulls as trophies.
Only four were allowed to survive, the two young men, John Ireland and William Sexton, and the two young sons of the army captain. The four lived with their captors for some months, and eventually exchanged at Murray Island to a native for a bunch of bananas.
The two boys, John Ireland [cabin boy] and William D’Oyley [child passenger who was the son of Captain D’Oyley of the Bengal Artillery] were treated kindly by their new owner and they were adopted by the natives.
Rescue
On 3 June 1836 schooner, the Isabella commanded by Captain Charles Morgan Lewis, was dispatched from Sydney to make a search for the lost ship. Then on 19 June rescue came months later by the ‘Isabella’, only Ireland and four-year-old William D’Oyley had survived. They were handed over to the Captain of the Isabella, who returned them to Sydney. The ship also carried back skulls believed to be those of the murdered passengers and crew.[1]
The Isabella was thought to have been the first European vessel to make contact with natives at Prince of Wales Island near the tip of Cape York.
Captain Lewis took leave of absence to take the young D’Oyley back to England to be placed in care of relatives.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Coral Sea and northern Great Barrier Reef Shipwrecks". oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ^ Horsburgh, James (1836). India Directory, or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies ... (Fourth ed.). W. H. Allen and Co. p. 506. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ a b Peek, Veronica. "Charles Eaton: wake for the melancholy shipwreck". veronicapeek.com/. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "Charles Eaton (ship) at Cowes for repairs". The Caledonian Mercury. newspapers.com. 11 January 1834. p. 4. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
Shipping Intelligence. Cowes, Jan. 5. The Charles Eaton, Moore, from London to. New, South. Wales, and the Active, Holman, from Portsmouth to Bristol, have put back, the. former with bowsprit sprung and cutwater damaged, and the latter with the hull cut down to the water's edge, having been in contact. Jan. 6. The Charles Eaton, in being towed into the harbour, grounded, and remains.
- ^ Pyke, Roger; McInnes, Allan. "Thomas Prockter Ching". launcestonthen. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
