HMS Mermaid (1817)
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Mermaid cutter
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Mermaid |
| Builder: | Thompson, Howrah |
| Launched: | 1816 |
| Fate: | Sold 1817 |
 Great Britain
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| Name: | HMS Mermaid |
| Acquired: | 1817 by purchase |
| Commissioned: | 16 October 1817 |
| Fate: | Sold 1823 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Mermaid |
| Owner: | Government of New South Wales |
| Acquired: | 1823 by purchase |
| Fate: | Wrecked on 13 June 1829, Flora Reef, Queensland |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 83, 84, or 85 (bm) |
| Length: | 56 ft (17 m) |
| Beam: | 18 ft 6 in (5.6 m) |
| Draught: | 2.7 m |
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| Notes: | Teak-built |
HMS Mermaid was a cutter built in Howrah, India, in 1816. The British Royal Navy purchased her at Port Jackson in 1817. The Navy then used her to survey the Australian coasts. In 1820 she grounded and in 1823 was condemned for survey work. The Navy sold her to the colonial government which used her to run errands until she was wrecked in 1829.
Mermaid was launched at Howrah in 1816 and the Royal Navy purchased her at Port Jackson in 1817.
Phillip Parker King used her between December 1817 and December 1820 to survey parts of the Australian coast that Matthew Flinders had not already surveyed. King circumnavigated the Australian mainland and conducted a survey of the Inner Route through the Great Barrier Reef.
1n 1820 Mermaid grounded; gotten off, she only reached Sydney with difficulty. A survey resulted in her condemnation for survey work and her sale in 1823 to the colonial government.
In September 1823 Mermaid carried John Oxley as he explored the Queensland coast south of Port Curtis, discovering the Brisbane and Tweed rivers. At Moreton Bay he rescued Thomas Pamphlett and John Finnegan, who had been ship-wrecked earlier in the year.
In September 1825 Mermaid transported Edmund Lockyer to Moreton Bay so he could explore the upper reaches of the Brisbane River.
In August 1826 John Richardson travelled on Mermaid from Port Essington, on Melville Island, to Timor to obtain seeds.
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