Details for the ship Guardian (1790)
| Ship Name: | Guardian |
|
| Rig Type: | HMS. |
| Built: | |
| Build Year: | |
| Size (tons): | |
| |
| Voyage Details |
|---|
| Master: | Lt. Edward Riou R.N. |
| Surgeon: | |
| Sailed: | 12 September 1789 |
| From: | Spithead |
| Arrived: | 21 February 1790 |
| Port: | wrecked at False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Route: | Santa Cruz |
| Days Travel: | |
| Convicts Landed: | 25 males & 0 female convicts |
| Notes: | Originally destined for PJ, HMS Guardian struck ice and started taking on water approximately 1300 miles from the Cape. Staggering across the Indian Ocean she almost made it to Cape St. Mary (Madagascar), limping to the coast of Africa by 21 February 1790. Assistance was forth coming, anchoring at False Bay.
On 12 April a fierce gale broke her moorings and she became a total wreck on the beach. |
| |
|
List of convict passengers
| Bloxwich, Joseph | Cubitt, Daniel | Lowe, John | Rumble, Philip |
| Bonnick, Thomas | Delove, John | Mayrick, Thomas | Skinner, William |
| Boulton, John | Fiske, Thomas | Mitchell, John | Wade, William |
| Careless, William | Gwynn, Joseph | Morris, John | Weavers, James |
| Chear, Richard | Hughes, Robert | Morris, John Chapman | |
| Cone, Henry | Latter, James | Page, Edward | |
| Cottiss, John | Lowe, Hugh | Pass, Charles | |
Note: The number of convicts recorded on this site that are associated with the ship Guardian is 25 .This figure may not correlate with the full listing of convicts recorded in official documents.
Sources
- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/1, pp.23-24
- Bateson, Charles & Library of Australian History (1983). The convict ships, 1787-1868 (Australian ed). Library of Australian History, Sydney : pp.124-126
|
