Kingsdown_1835
British Southern Voyage
| WRI | BV049420 |
| Vessel | Kingsdown |
| Master | Simmonds / William Simmons // John Edwards // William Jenkins |
| Departure | 1835-08-23 |
| Return (days) | 1839-05-12 (1359) |
| Port (dock) | London |
| Destination | Timor |
| East/ West | East |
| Owner (Agent) | Curling |
| Cargo | 183 tons oil |
| Sources | SST1; SST2; BT98 64/7183; LISLE |
| Reports | Spoken by the Japan off Bouro 10 February 1836 out 7 months with 150b; reported 2 December 1836 at Sydney 22 May 1836; reported 6 December 1836 at Timor June 1836? under command of Lazenby? with 300b; at New Zealand 8 November 1836; at the Stewart Isles [Sikaiana, Solomons] 8 February 1837; reported 19 December 1837 at Vavau 10 April 1837 with 600 barrels late Edwards; at the Stewart Isles [Sikaiana, Solomons] 12 February 1838; at Navigator Islands 10 May 1838; at Navigator Islands 10 May 1838; reported 6 June 1838 at New Zealand 23 December 1837 with 1200 barrels |
| Notes | This vessel lost two Masters during the course of its voyage. Sydney Herald , 23 May 1836 , SHIP NEWS, By the Kingdown, London whaler, we regret to hear of the melancholy death of her master [27 February 1836], Captain William Simmons, by the hands of some savages in Timor Straits. It appears that the Kingdown put in for provisions at an island called Point Mobar, where the captain went ashore with two boats, the party consisting of Captain Hill, of the Japan, London whaler, the carpenter of the same ship, and Captain Simmons, in one boat and the Surgeons of both ships with a crew in the other. They had been trading with the natives, apparently upon amicable terms for some hours, when some dispute arose between the Europeans and natives about some goats, which the former had been endeavouring to barter for, and not agreeing the sailors left the shore for their vessels, when to their surprise the natives fired a volley of musketry into the boats. Captain Simmons fell, exclaiming 'he was killed!' and the carpenter was also shot dead in the boat! The Kingdown is nine months from London, and Timor 2lst March, having put into Sydney for a master. From the Journal of the Japan , 21 March 1836 , Following the death of the Master William Simmons the crew refused to serve under Mr Edwards, the 1st Mate, James Brown, Surgeon on the Japan identified the following crew as the ringleaders Ebenezer Brumfield (Cooper), Thomas Wy (Armourer), John King (Boatsteerer) and John Gardner (Ordinary Seaman). Captain Hunter of the Marshall Bennett reported in the Nautical Magazine 1842 page 6 and 7 that the Kingsdown also had an interaction with natives near New Ireland in 1836 with a cutlass stolen and two natives wounded by gunfire in the process of recovering the item. Astoundlngly Hunter remarks that the natives then came to have their wounds dressed and things went on as if nothing had happened. |
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