Argument (ship)

The Argument was an Australian sloop wrecked in 1809.

In March 1809, three ships, the Argument, the Experiment and the Hazard left Pittwater, New South Wales, bound for Sydney with a cargo of wheat. A squall arose and the master of the Argument, Bejamin Pate, watched as the Hazard was driven ashore and wrecked. Deciding to avoid a similar fate he attempted to run for Broken Bay but missed the entrance and struck Short Reef. Benjamin Pate, his hand, James Dicey, and a passenger, Mary Kirk, were all drowned.

The Argument was a sloop of some 8 tons, built in Sydney and registered on 8 October 1800. ^[1]

References

↑ Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2 p45

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Richmond–Tweed	Adventure Agnes Enterprize Tassie III HMAS Waree SS Wollongbar I

Mid North Coast	Abbey Ability Absalom Acielle Admiral Gifford Adonis Advance Agnes Irving Edwin Fairwind SS Fingal Fitzroy Jane Kooroongaba Titan Crane Trial SS Wollongbar II

Hunter	Ability Acme Active (1850) Active (1877) Ada Ada and Ethel Adelaide Adolphe Advance Agnes Alhambra Bee The Bluebell Collision SS Catterthun SS Cawarra Contest Dundee Eleanor Lancaster Elizabeth Henrietta (1816) Estramina Excalibur Francis Governor Hunter Governor King Grecian Hope HMAS K9 Lindus Merksworth TSS Maianbar Norfolk SS Oakland Recovery MV Sygna Wendouree USS WST-1

Central Coast	Adelaide Advance SS Allenwood SS Bonnie Dundee Hazard Nimbin HMAS Paterson

Northern Sydney	Adelaide Aenid Argument Charlotte Narara HMAS Swan Tuncurry Whale Windsor

Sydney Eastern Suburbs	Agnes Colonist Dunbar Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe disaster PS Herald Hereward SS Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar HMAS Woomera

Southern Sydney	Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya

Illawarra	Adele Adolphus Agnes Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen of Nations Shockwave

Shoalhaven	Advance Aeolus Agnes Hive Koraaga Nancy HMAS Voyager Wandra

Far South Coast	George Iron Knight Olive Cam

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