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} |} ''Cato'' was launched at Stockton in 1800 and registered in London to Reeve & Green. She was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in 1804. ''Cato'' arrived in Port Jackson, New South Wales, from England on 9 March 1803, carrying stores. On 10 August 1803, ''Cato'' left Sydney in the company of the ships HMS ''Porpoise'' and ''Bridgewater'', all bound for Canton.〔 On 17 August the three ships got caught near a sandbank, 157 miles north and 51 miles east of Sandy Cape. With shrinking leeway, both ''Cato'' and ''Porpoise'' grounded. ''Bridgewater'' sailed on, despite knowing that the other two vessels had come to grief. The crew and passengers of the wrecked vessels were able to land on a sandbank as both their ships broke up. This sandbank become known as Wreck Reefs and is located in the southern part of the Coral Sea Islands approximately East Nor East of Gladstone, Queensland or east of the Swain reefs complex. They form a narrow chain of reefs with small cays that extends for around in a west to east line. ''Cato'' also gave its name to the nearby Cato Reef, which it discovered. On 26 August 1803 with no sign of rescue, ''Porpoise'' passenger Matthew Flinders and Captain John Park of ''Cato'' took the largest cutter (which they named ''Hope''), and twelve crewmen and headed to Sydney to seek rescue. Through marvelous navigation, ''Hope'' made it to Port Jackson by 8 September. Although three lives had been lost in the joint shipwreck, ''Rolla'', and the schooners and ''Francis'', were able to rescue all the remaining passengers.〔Bateson (1972), p.35.〕 ''Rolla'' then took the people she had rescued to Canton.〔Hackman (2001), p.242.〕 ==Citations and references== ;Citations ;References *Bateson, Charles (1972) ''Australian Shipwrecks - 1622-1850'', Vol. 1. (Sydney:AH and AW Reed). ISBN 0-589-07112-2 *Hackman, Rowan (2001) ''Ships of the East India Company''. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7 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「Cato (1800 ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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