THE FOUNDING OF HOBART BY LIEUT- 

 GOVERNOR COLLINS. 



BY JAMES BACKHOirSE WALKER. 

 Read 14th October, 1889. 



1. The Choice of Sullivan's Cove. 



On the 30th January, 1804, the Ocean and Lady 

 Nelson, with the first detachment of Lieut. -Governor 

 Collins' establishment, sailed from the Heads of Port 

 Phillip for the Derv.-ent. The Lady NeUon was com- 

 manded by Lieut. Simmons, with Jorgen Jorgensen as 

 first mate. She took the settlers and their families, and 

 the stores. The Ocean had on board 178 prisoners, 

 with some women and children, a guard of 25 marines, 

 under Lieut. Edward Lord, and the civil establishment, 

 consisting of the Lieut.-Governor, the Rev. Robert 

 Knopwood, Surveyor-General Geo. Prideaax Harris, 

 Mr. Adolarius W. H. Humphreys, the mineralogist. 

 Dr. Bowden, and two Superintendents of Convicts. The 

 ship was greatly overcrowded. She had been fitted up in 

 England to carry some 30 people besides her crew. She 

 had now over 200 souls on board, and we can well 

 believe Mr. J. P. Fawkner when he says that they had a 

 miserable time of it during their 15 days' passage, cooped 

 up in a small vessel of 480 tons. Fawkner says they 

 suffered terribly from tjie want of cooked food, as the 

 cooking accommodation for 25 had to serve for the whole 

 200. They were 10 days reaching the Pillar, and were 

 there caught in a heavy south-wester, which kept them Ocean's Log. 

 two days oif the Raoul. It then came on to blow hard 

 from the noi'th west, which obliged Capt. Mertho to 

 bear up for Frederick Henry Bay, where he came to an 

 anchor off Pipe Clay Lagoon. Here Lieut. Lord and Knopwood, 

 Mr. Humphreys were landed, with four men, to walk up ^^^^ P^^- 

 to Risdon with despatches, while the vessel lay wind- 

 bound for another three days, tlie officers amusing 



