The Recovery was a ship that was wrecked near Port Stephens

Port Stephens

Port Stephens is a large natural harbour located about north-east of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It lies wholly within the Port Stephens Local Government Area although its northern shoreline forms the boundary between the Port Stephens and Great Lakes LGAs...

, New South Wales

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, Australia

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 in 1816.

The Recovery was a sloop

Sloop

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 of 14 tons, owned by George Hibbs of Sydney

Sydney

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. In early June 1816 it headed from the Hawkesbury

Hawkesbury

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 to Port Jackson

Port Jackson

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 with a cargo of grain. A storm came up and the Recovery was blown out to sea. On turning the ship around it was wrecked near Port Stephens. The crew of two men and a woman passenger struggled ashore and walked a distance of 50 miles to Newcastle

Newcastle, New South Wales

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. On the way they were stripped of all their clothes by some aborigines. At Newcastle they were given passage to Sydney on the sloop, Windsor which was also wrecked.