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Thames
The Thames (1818) , owner J. Blackett, master Capt Anderson, was blown ashore 22 May 1830 on South Bay, Fremantle, en route from Hobart to Mauritius with a cargo of sheep, heifers, and bricks and timber.
The wreck of the Thames is shown as marking the southern boundary of Fremantle on an 1833 map reproduced in a paper given in 2013 by Steve Errington and published in Fremantle Studies in 2017.
References and Links
WA Museum page for this ship. The wreck is shown on a map of Fremantle dated 1833, and on Chauncey map Fremantle 1844. Sources referred to on this page: C. Bateson, The Convict Ships (Artarmon, N.S.W., 1974); Graeme Henderson, Unfinished Voyages, 1622-1850.
European wrecks site page for this ship.
Steve Errington 2017, 'Fremantle 1829-1832: an illustrated history', Fremantle Studies, 9: 15-29.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 23 April, 2020 and hosted at freotopia.org/ships/thames.html (it was last updated on 3 May, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.