Hive (1820)

History

United Kingdom
Name:	Hive
Launched:	1820, Deptford
Fate:	Wrecked along New South Wales coast on 10 December 1835
General characteristics
Displacement:	485 tons
Length:	120 feet
Propulsion:	Sail

The Hive was a 485-ton sailing ship built in 1820 at Deptford, England.

Under the command of John Luscombe, she left Portsmouth on 29 January 1834, carrying 250 male convicts. Hive arrived in Sydney on 11 June 1834 and had two deaths en route. On her second convict voyage, she left Ireland, under the command of John Nutting in late August 1835, carrying 250 male convicts. While travelling up the east coast of New South Wales, she ran aground south of Jervis Bay (now known as Wreck Bight) and was wrecked. Two convicts had died en route.

References

Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships, 1787-1868, Sydney, 1974. ISBN 0-85174-195-9

Shipwrecks and scuttled vessels of New South Wales

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Richmond–Tweed	Adventure Agnes Enterprize Tassie III HMAS Waree SS Wollongbar I

Mid North Coast	Abbey Ability Absalom Acielle Admiral Gifford Adonis Advance Agnes Irving Edwin Fairwind SS Fingal Fitzroy Jane Kooroongaba Titan Crane Trial SS Wollongbar II

Hunter	Ability Acme Active (1850) Active (1877) Ada Ada and Ethel Adelaide Adolphe Advance Agnes Alhambra Bee The Bluebell Collision SS Catterthun SS Cawarra Contest Dundee Eleanor Lancaster Elizabeth Henrietta (1816) Estramina Excalibur Francis Governor Hunter Governor King Grecian Hope HMAS K9 Lindus Merksworth TSS Maianbar Norfolk SS Oakland Recovery MV Sygna Wendouree USS WST-1

Central Coast	Adelaide Advance SS Allenwood SS Bonnie Dundee Hazard Nimbin HMAS Paterson

Northern Sydney	Adelaide Aenid Argument Charlotte Narara HMAS Swan Tuncurry Whale Windsor

Sydney Eastern Suburbs	Agnes Colonist Dunbar Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe disaster PS Herald Hereward SS Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar HMAS Woomera

Southern Sydney	Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya

Illawarra	Adele Adolphus Agnes Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen of Nations Shockwave

Shoalhaven	Advance Aeolus Agnes Hive Koraaga Nancy HMAS Voyager Wandra

Far South Coast	George Iron Knight Olive Cam

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Hive (1820)

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