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Name: | Ocean |
Owner: | Messrs Hurry & Co |
Launched: | 1794, South Shields |
Fate: | Unknown |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Brig |
Tons burthen: | 461 or 481 tons (bm) |
Length: | 109 ft 9 in (33.45 m) (overall), 86 ft 5 1⁄4 in (26.346 m) (keel) |
Beam: | 31 ft 81 in (11.51 m) |
Depth of hold: | 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) |
Propulsion: | Sail |
Sail plan: | Brig |
Complement: | 35-40 |
Armament: | 12 x 6-pounder guns |
Notes: | Copper-sheathed |
Ocean was an English merchant ship and whaler built in 1794 at South Shields, England. She performed two voyages as an "extra" ship for the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) and later, in 1803, she accompanied HMS Calcutta to Port Phillip (Melbourne). The vessels supported the establishment of a settlement under the leadership of Lt Col David Collins. Calcutta transported convicts, with Ocean serving to transport supplies. When the settlers abandoned Port Phillip, Ocean, in two journeys, relocated the settlers, convicts and marines to the River Derwent (Hobart Town) in 1804.[1][2]
Ocean's ultimate fate is unknown.
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The Ocean was a three-masted, copper-bottomed brig. [3] She was built in 1794 at South Shields.[4]
Originally, Ocean was a whaler owned by the newly-operating South fishers, Thomas and Edward Hurrys, who were bankrupt by 1806.[5] On her voyage with Calcutta, Ocean was armed. Accounts record a salute of 11 guns from the Ocean on the establishment of the settlement at Hobart.[6]
Ocean made two trips to Bengal as an "extra" ship for the HEIC. That is, the HEIC chartered her on a per-voyage basis, rather than having her on long-term contract; extra ships were usually smaller than the regular HEIC Indiamen. The French Revolutionary Wars having started, she sailed under letters of marque for both voyages.
The first letter was issued on 22 January 1796 and gave her captain's name as John Bowen. It listed her as having a crew of 40 men and armament of ten 6-pounder guns.
Under Bowen's command, she left Gravesend on 17 February 1796. She was at Cowes on 30 March, where she took on board men from the 28th Light Dragoons . She then joined a convoy for the Cape of Good Hope on 11 April. The convoy included another Ocean, this one a much larger East Indiaman. On 10 September the brig Ocean sailed for Bengal. On 28 November she was at Diamond Harbour and by 30 December she was at Calcutta. She left Diamond Harbour again on 10 January 1797. She left Bengal on 27 March 1797 with a cargo of sugar and in a convoy escorted by the frigate HMS Fox. Ocean left Kedgeree on 19 March and Trincomalee on 24 April. Ocean reached the Cape on 11 July, a storm having dispersed the convoy and despite having sprung leaks that had kept the crew at the pumps from 26 May on. She sailed from the Cape on 26 August as part of a convoy of 16 East Indiamen and six British warships, reaching Saint Helena on 11 September. Ocean reached Gravesend, Kent on 18 December, and finished unloading at Deptford on 19 January 1798.[7]
In 1798 she was repaired by Fletcher. She received her second letter of marque on 30 July 1798. That letter gave her captain's name as Robert Abbon Mash, her crew size as 40, and her armament as twelve 6-pounders.[8] On 4 October 1798 she sailed for Bengal. She reached the Cape of good Hope on 14 January 1799, Madras on 9 May, Coringa on 16 June and Calcutta on 17 July. On the return leg she was at Diamond Harbour on 25 September, and Kedgeree by 23 October. By 26 January 1800 Ocean was at Saint Helena, and returned to her moorings in Britain on 1 June.[9]
The British Government chartered Ocean from Messrs Hurry & Co as a supply ship for the journey from Portsmouth to Port Philip Bay. On the voyage to Port Philip Bay, she carried 100 people along with supplies needed for the settlement at Port Philip Bay. These included, the Captain, John Mertho, 9 officers, 26 seamen, 8 civil officers including George Harris a surveyor and Adolarius Humphrey a mineralogist, and a group of free settlers. Many of the free settlers had skills that would be of value to the new settlement - 5 were carpenters, 2 seamen, 2 millers, a whitesmith (works with white or light coloured metals such as tin or pewter), a stonemason, gardener, painter, schoolteacher, pocketbook maker (maker of wallets and covered notebooks) and 2 servants.[3]
Ocean and Calcutta left Portsmouth on 27 April 1803 and reached Santa Cruz on the Island of Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands on 17 May 1803. Both ships sailed from Tenerife on 21 May and arrived at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on 29 June.[3] While in Rio, Captain Woodriff of Calcutta sent 5 marines under Lieutenant Sladden to help maintain order on the Ocean for the rest of the voyage. According to Reverend Robert Knopwood's journals, ‘Mr. Hartley, a settler had behaved badly’ – and it seemed there was little love lost between some of the free settlers and Captain Mertho. They apparently regarded him as a ‘tyrant’ while he thought they were intractable.[3][10][11]
At Rio de Janeiro, seven sailors deserted Calcutta. Portuguese soldiers captured three of them and returned them to her, receiving a reward of 6 pounds per sailor. While the ships were at berth, maintenance work was carried out on both ships and fresh provisions were taken on board for the next leg of the journey. Cloths were washed; repairs and adjustments made to the rigging of both ships and supplies of water were replenished. The fresh provisions included 36 turkeys, 13 dozen capons (roosters) and fowls, 68 very large ducks 4 geese, 13 pigs and a large quantity of fruit and vegetables. Both Ocean and Calcutta left Rio on 19 July 1803.[3]
The Ocean, the slower of the two ships, was directed to sail direct to Port Philip Bay if she lost contact with Calcutta. The ships did lose contact so the Ocean did not put in at Cape Town, arriving at Port Philip Bay on 7 October.[3] At Cape Town two more sailors deserted Calcutta. One was captured and returned.[3]
After leaving Rio, Ocean sailed through the Southern Atlantic and into the Indian Ocean. She experienced frightening weather conditions for 77 days before sighting land on course and off Port Philip on 5 October. Twenty days out of Rio, George Harris recorded that ‘for many days we could not sit at table but were obliges to hold fast by boxes and on the floor and all our crockery were almost broken to pieces, besides many seas into the cabin and living in the state of darkness from the cabin windows being stopped up by the deadlights … I was never so melancholy in my life before’.[3] In such conditions work on deck was extremely dangerous. On 9 August John Bowers fell overboard and was lost.[3]
Ocean and Calcutta established the first settlement at Port Phillip in 1803 under the leadership of Lt Col David Collins.[12]
While at Port Philip Bay, a number of convicts escaped. According to Rev. Robert Knopwood's journal six convicts escaped from Sorrento on the evening of 27 December 1803. The settlement was in the process of closing down at the time, HMS Calcutta had already sailed for Port Jackson in New South Wales and the Ocean was preparing to sail for Van Diemen's Land. The escaping convicts cut loose a boat from the Ocean and succeed in getting to shore where two were recaptured, one of whom (Charles Shaw) was shot and seriously wounded. Their first intention was to head north to Sydney so they followed the bay to the mouth of the Yarra River where their scarce provisions ran out. They then tried heading inland for a way but before long the party separated. One of them (Daniel M'Allender) headed back to Sorrento and arrived in time to be taken on board the Ocean. William Buckley decided to return to the beach alone and continued to follow the bay round to the opposite head in the hope of seeing and signalling to the Ocean, but by this time it had left. Buckley lived with the aborigines in the area for 32 years and was next seen in 1835. Buckley's improbable survival is believed by many Australians to be the source of the vernacular phrase "Buckley's chance" (or simply Buckley's), which means "no chance", or "it's as good as impossible".[13]
When this settlement was abandoned, the Ocean, in two journeys, relocated the settlers, convicts and marines to the River Derwent (Hobart Town) in 1804.[1][2]
Ocean was released from service with His Majesty’s government after moving Collins's settlers to Hobart. She sailed to Port Jackson and was there by 26 August 1804. At Port Jackson she took on fresh provisions and then headed to China, on behalf of the owners to pick up cargo. On her journey to China, Ocean sailed to the phosphate rich Micronesian island of Banaba, then on to the Marshall Islands in November. By 20 December she was at Whampoa. A month later, on 24 January 1805, she was at Macao. Another month saw her at Malacca on 25 February. She reached Saint Helena on 1 July and The Downs on 16 September.[14]
Further details of Captain John Mertho or the fate of the Ocean are not known.[3]
The voyage to Australia is well documented in a number of sources.[15]
After having left Australia, Captain John Mertho and the Ocean are sometimes credited with the official European discovery of Banaba. [21][22] Most sources credit the discovery to Captain Jared Gardner of the American vessel Diana on 3 January 1801.[23]
John Butler is the first full-length album by the John Butler Trio, released 27 December 1998.
It was recorded at Studio Couch, Fremantle and engineered by George Nikoloudis and Shaun O'Callaghan, mixed by Shaun O'Callaghan and George Nikoloudis and mastered by Shaun O'Callaghan and Richard Mahony at Studio Couch and Toad Hall.
All music and lyrics were written, arranged and produced by John Butler, except for the words of the chorus in "Colours" which were from Sly and the Family Stone.
With Jason McGann on drums and Gavin Shoesmith on bass, the first version of the group recorded the album in December 1998 which was launched at Mojos Bar in North Fremantle.
All songs written and composed by John Butler, except where noted.
Ocean was an East Indiaman launched in 1788, which made four trips for the Honourable East India Company between February 1789 and February 1797, when she was wrecked on the island of Kalatea (7°9′S 121°00′E / 7.150°S 121.000°E) in the East Indies.
East Indiamen traveled in convoys as much as they could. Vessels of the British Royal Navy often escorted these convoys, though generally not past India, or before on the return leg. Even so, the Indiamen were heavily armed so that they could dissuade pirates and even large privateers.
For her first voyage, Ocean sailed to Madras and China under the command of Captain James Tod (or Todd). She left Torbay on 26 February 1789, and 10 March she reached Madeira. She then left Madras on 24 June, reaching Whampoa on 26 September. She crossed the Second Bar on 10 January 1790, and reached Saint Helena on 15 April. She arrived back at he Downs on 6 June.
For her second voyage, Ocean was under the command of Captain Andrew Patton, who would remain her captain for the next three voyages. This was his fifth voyage to the east for the company, and his second on Ocean, as he had been her first lieutenant on her previous trip under Tod. On this voyage, Patton sailed her for St Helena, Madras and China. She left the Downs on 17 December 1791 and reached St Helena on 27 February 1792. From there she went on to Madras, which she reached on 10 May. By 23 June, she was at Penang, and one month later, on 25 July, she was at Malacca. She reached Whampoa on 16 August, and on her return trip she crossed the Second Bar on 3 November. She reached St Helena by 12 February 1793, and the Downs by 17 April.
Jana Rae Kramer (born December 2, 1983) is an American actress and country music singer. She is best known for her role as Alex Dupre on the television series One Tree Hill. Kramer began a country music career in 2012 with the single "Why Ya Wanna" from her self-titled debut album for Elektra Records.
Kramer was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States, to Nora and Martin Kramer. She is of German Chilean, Croatian and French ancestry. Jana has one brother Steve who is a police officer. Jana attended Rochester Adams High School. She speaks some German.
In 2002, Kramer made her acting debut in the low-budget independent horror film Dead/Undead. The following year Kramer guest appeared on All My Children, which marked Kramer's television debut. Kramer has since continued to appear in a number of television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and CSI: NY. She has also had small supporting roles in films such as Click, Prom Night and Spring Breakdown.
Love, or more uncommon Lowe, is a Swedish version of the French name Louis. It can also be a version of Lovisa, and can thus be used both for men and women, although it is more common with men.
The name is uncommon amongst adults; there are less than 200 men older than 30 in Sweden with the name, but several hundreds from every cohort born in the 1990s. 31 December 2009, there was in total 6,058 men in Sweden with the name Love/Lowe, of which 2,953 had it as first nnameame, the rest as middle name. There were also 531 women with the name, of which 128 had it as given name.
In 2003, 344 boys got the name, and of those, 182 got it as given name. The same year, 24 girls got the name, of which 6 got it as given name.
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Lose or win, I'm jumping in
Not afraid to get a little wet
Head over heals, What's the big deal
It's something I won't regret
It feels so good on a natural high
Dang it if love don't get me every time
I'm singing a new song today
I'm walking around in a haze
All my friend's say it's my latest mistake
But I'm gonna do it, gonna step right into it
I'm gonna do it, do it, do it......
Ready or not, give me what you got
I'm along for the ride
Into high gear, the coast is clear
Gonna give it another try
It feels so good on a natural high
Dang it if love don't get me every time
I'm singing a new song today
I'm walking around in a haze
All my friend's say it's my latest mistake
But I'm gonna do it, gonna step right into it
I'm gonna do it, do it, do it......
My heart's on my sleeve and my hands are tied
I'm helpless here, but I'm so satisfied...... Like a love junkie
Let's do it and do it again......