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Champion (schooner)


H.M. Colonial Schooner Champion was in service with the Colony of Western Australia from 1836 until 1852.

Champion Bay, Geraldton, Western Australia was named after her by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle, who surveyed the area in April 1840.George Fletcher Moore had travelled in Champion to the region and first located the bay in January of that year.


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