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Siam | Official Number
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The Siam was a full-rigged ship built by Lumley Kennedy & Co. at Whitehaven in 1837. She was owned by Boadle & Co. and was registered at Whitehaven for her short career. The Siam, Capt.Boadle, left London for Sydney on the 5th October 1837, with merchandise and passengers (including some Quakers), arriving on the 1st February 1838. The ship returned to England via Guam, and then made her next voyage from Liverpool, departing 18th February 1839. Bound for Manilla and Singapore, she was wrecked trying to make the Sunda Straights.
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday, 17th August 1839, page 2;
" WRECK OF THE SHIP SIAM - The Siam, which left this port about 18
months since, sailed from Liverpool on the 18th February, bound to
Singapore and Manilla with a general cargo. On the 8th June, at
midnight, they made New Island, distant about 20 miles to the eastward
of Java Head, with strong winds from the S.E; hauled up, as supposed,
for the entrance to the Straits of Sunda, steering then about W.N.W.,
and stood in shore. About 2 A.M., heavy, thick hazy weather came on,
which continued till about 3 A.M., when the weather moderated and
cleared; observed the vessel among the breakers, all hands were
immediately called to wear ship. The yards were directly braced round
for that purpose, but before the vessel could get round, she struck
upon the reef, and in less than twenty minutes she was full of water.,
the sea making a complete breach over her. The jolly-boat was got out,
in which Captain Boadle, his wife, two children, and servant, and part
of the crew got in; the remainder of the crew saving themselves,
together with the two chronometers, in the quarter boat. They
immediately pulled out to sea (the captain's wife and children having
nothing on but their night clothes). At daylight on the following
morning they attempted to board the vessel, to endeavour, if possible,
to save some wearing apparel for the Captain's wife and family - the
stern of the vessel having been hove upon the rocks, and remaining ten
or twleve feet out of water - but all attempts were fruitless, the
breakers continually rolling in prevented them. They were then obliged
to put to sea, and steer for Java. At 2 P.M., on the 11th July, they
fell in with the French merchant ship Gabriel, from Bordeaux, bound to
Batavia, which vessel picked them up and conveyed them to that port. The
whole of the crew proceeded home, with the exception of the carpenter
and two seamen, who have arrived at this port in the Bardaster."
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