HMS Roebuck (1690)
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HMS Roebuck was a fifth-rate warship in the Royal Navy which, under the command of William Dampier, carried the first British scientific expedition to Australia in 1699. It sank in early 1701. The wre
Arrival of Roebuck in Shark Bay, from a painting by John Charles Allcot (1925)
William Dampier, Roebuck's captain, tasked with surveying the coast of New Holland, by Thomas Murray. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Ascension Island, as Dampier would have seen it, approaching from the south in Roebuck
Clarence Bay, Ascension Island, where the wreck of Roebuck was discovered in 2001
Ascension Island
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Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, near 8° south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is about 960 miles from the coast of Africa and 1,400 miles from the coast of South Americ
HMS Roebuck (1690)
…Australia in 1699. It sank in early 1701. The wreck of the ship has since been located by a team from the WA Maritime Museum at a site on the coast of Ascension Island where it foundered more than 300 years ago. Roebuck was built by Snellgrove at Wapping, East London, and launched on 17 April 1690 during the reign of…
João da Nova discovered the island on Ascension Day 1501.
Royal Marine barracks (1830) in the former Royal Dockyard, Georgetown
RAF Ascension Island