Surprize (1780 ship)
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Surprize was a three-deck merchant vessel launched in 1780 that made five voyages as a packet ship under charter to the British East India Company. She also participated in the notorious Second Fleet,
Justinian and Surprize standing into Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island, 23 August 1790; William Bradley
William Wentworth
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William Charles Wentworth was an Australian statesman, author, explorer, lawyer, newspaper editor and pastoralist, who became one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in colonial New South Wale
Surprize (1780 ship)
…4 February 1791 and reached Anger on 29 April. She did not reach St Helena until 8 July, but arrived at The Downs on 6 September. Australian statesman William Wentworth was born onboard Surprize to convict mother Catherine Crowley and surgeon D'Arcy Wentworth just off Norfolk Island. In 1791 and 1793, Surprize attempted…
William Charles Wentworth, 1861–1862, Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery
Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains
Wentworth's journal of the expedition
Earliest pictorial representation of the crossing from The Sydney Mail, 25 December 1880