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The ''Albion'' was a 362-ton full rigged whaler built at Deptford, England. She was fitted with 10 guns and manned with a crew of 26. Owned by the firm Champion & Company, the vessel was sent to Australia waters in 1799 to conduct whaling and was chartered in 1803 to transport stores and cattle, to Risdon Cove on the River Derwent, Tasmania. Under the command of Captain Eber Bunker, the ''Albion'' departed England in 1799 arriving in Port Jackson (Sydney) on 29 June 1799, with a cargo of salted pork after a voyage of 3 months and 15 days. Afterwards the ''Albion'' sailed to Taihiti at the request of Governor Philip Gidley King and spent the next two winters whaling off the Australian coast and the New Zealand coast. The ''Albion'' returned to England with a cargo of 155 barrels of whale oil. Returning to Port Jackson on 6 July 1803, the ''Albion'' under command of Captain Eber Bunker went on a second whaling expedition along the Australian coast. Bunker discovered the Bunker Islands off the Queensland coast. The ''Albion'' was next chartered to carry convicts,〔〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography - Bowen, John (1780-1827) )〕 stores and cattle, and also carried the leader of the settlement party, 23-year-old Lieutenant John Bowen,〔 as part of the establishment of the first European settlement at Risdon Cove, Tasmania, arriving on 12 September 1803. (The accompanying ship had arrived about 3 days earlier. Between them the 2 ships carried 49 passengers for the new settlement: 21 male convicts, 3 female convicts, members of the NSW corps, and free settlers and their families.〔) During the voyage the ''Albion'', which although chartered had been given permission to take whales along the way,〔(Dictionary of Sydney - Sydney's whaling fleet )〕 captured three whales. The ''Albion'' returned to Sydney with 600 barrels of whale oil. After an expedition to New Zealand, the ''Albion'' left Port Jackson on 24 August 1804 and returned to London with 1,400 barrels of whale oil and 13,000 seal skins. The ''Albion'' is known to have returned to Port Jackson on 19 August 1806〔 under the command of Captain Richardson after a voyage of 4 months and 17 days carrying a cargo of general merchandise for Robert Campbell (1769-1846).〔''Sydney Gazette'', 14 September 1806〕〔''Sydney Gazette'', 24 August 1806〕 Passengers on this voyage were the said merchant Robert Campbell and his family who were returning to Sydney,〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography - Campbell, Robert (1769–1846) )〕 Robert Campbell's nephews the single Robert Campbell Jnr. (1789-1851)〔1828 census of New South Wales〕〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography - Campbell, Robert junior (1789–1851) )〕 and the married George Thomas Palmer (1784-1854)〔 coming to New South Wales with his new wife as a Lieutenant in the 61st regiment but with permission to settle as a free immigrant and also coming to join his parents who were already in the Colony (his father John Palmer (1760-1833) was business partner to his uncle),〔( Australian Dictionary of Biography - Palmer, George Thomas (1784–1854) )〕 James Milson (1783-1872)〔 a single immigrant farmer from Lincolnshire,〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography - Milson, James (1783–1872) )〕 and Patrick Purcell (1754-1859)〔 a single immigrant farmer from Kilkenny, Ireland. On or about 12 October 1806 the ''Albion'' sailed for the whale "fishery".〔''Sydney Gazette'', 12 October 1806〕 On 13 May 1807 the ''Albion'' is reported as having returned to Port Jackson from a "cruise" (whaling trip) with "75 tons of sperm oil" and then having sailed again for the whale "fishery" on the 27 May "to touch at Part Dalrymple".〔''Sydney Gazette'', 7 June 1807〕 The ''Albion'' left for England on 12 November 1808 with a cargo of whale oil.〔 The ''Albion'' then returned to Hobart Town (then part of the Colony of New South Wales) under the command of Captain Skelton with a cargo of general merchandise on 21 December 1809 after a voyage of 3 months and 22 days.〔〔 The known passengers on this voyage were again George Thomas Palmer (1784-1854) and his wife,〔''Sydney Gazette'', 14 January 1810〕 a Mr. Cox and a Mr. Shelly,〔''Sydney Gazette'' 21 January 1810〕 and the merchant Francis Williams (1780-1831)〔1825 muster of New South Wales〕 and his Australian-born wife〔 returning to Sydney via Hobart after having his having received permission to settle in New South Wales. He had previously been deported in November 1807 by Governor William Bligh, and after sailing from Hobart aboard the ''Union'' arrived back in Sydney in January 1810.〔''Sydney Gazette'', 21 January 1810〕 Convicted of embezzlement from the Bank of New South Wales in 1822 Williams received a colonial sentence of 14 years transportation and was sent to Newcastle.〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography - Williams, Francis (1780–1831) )〕 The destination of the ''Albion'' after leaving Hobart Town was "the whale fishery",〔 and she was reported as at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand in February 1810.〔''Sydney Gazette'', 10 March 1810〕 The ''Albion'' is next reported in the Straits of Timor in August 1811 sailing for England with a "full ship" (of whale oil).〔''Sydney Gazette'', 31 August 1811〕 This marked the completion of what was to be the ''Albions last voyage into Australasian waters. The fate of the ''Albion'' is not known. ==See also== *Whaling in Australia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albion (whaler)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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