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From: "Bernard de Neumann" <>
Subject: RE: [Mar] Re: Master-Commander
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:34:29 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20051106014159.8250D24727@smeagol.ncf.ca>


I've always understood that Admiral Arthur Philip was the First Governor of
Australia, so I assume that it was he who was aboard BUFFALO in 1836.
Philip had been a pupil at Greenwich Royal Hospital School.

Bernard de Neumann
Royal Hospital School Archivist

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Dodsworth [mailto:]
> Sent: 06 November 2005 01:42
> To:
> Subject: [Mar] Re: Master-Commander
>
> Paul Benyon <> used the HMS Buffalo as an
> example
> of a ship with a combined Master-Commander.
> Although the Buffalo was an insignificant vessel, mainly used for stores
> and importing timber for the Navy, she was involved in interesting events.
> She carried the first Governor to South Australia (1836).
> After years as a store ship she was converted into a convict carrier in
> the 1830s.
> On her final voyage (1839) she carried 143 Canadian and American
> convicts.
> These were political prisoners who had participated in the 1837 revolt
> and invasion of Canada in an attempt to get representative government.
> The English Canadians and Americans were transported to Tasmania.
> The French Canadians were destined to the punishment colony of Norfolk
> Island. However at Sydney, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Sydney recognized
> that these were harmless people and was able to get the Governor to let
> them stay in the Sydney area, under normal convict conditions.
> The Buffalo was wrecked in New Zealand on her homeward voyage (1840).
>
> One book on these prisoners is Forgotten Patriots, Jack Cahill, Toronto,
> 1998.
> I also found a reference to a book HMS Buffalo, Robert Sexton, 1984 (which
> I havn't read).
> HMS Buffalo by R SEXTON, (Australasian Maritime Historical Society,1984)
> 'An account of His Majesty's Ship Buffalo; Naval Storeship and Timber
> Carrier,
> Quarantine Ship, Transport, and Emigrant Ship bringing the first Governor
> to South Australia', lots of b/w illustrations and maps, 183pp
>
>
> --
> Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada
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