‘Amelia’, 1828

The following appeared in ‘The Australian’ on 26th March 1828:

‘The small vessel the Amelia, about twenty tons burthen, Mr. Hillier master, belonging to Sydney, and which was chiefly employed in the seal fishery, in the Straits, and in trading to Hobart Town, has foundered at sea (remarks the Hobart Town Gazette,) off Two-fold-bay, in one of those whirls or eddies, technically called tide-rips. When a boat or small vessel is involved in a calm in one of those whirls, which frequently occurs among the rocks and headlands of the coast, the danger is very great, and the only chance of safety is, in the assistance of a larger vessel, or the springing up of a breeze, to bear it from the current.’

Presumably, therefore, the ‘Amelia’ was becalmed and was driven to shore, only to be wrecked, in Twofold Bay in March 1828.