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Memory Cove and Cape Catastrophe20 February 1802 - 6 March 1802

The crew sail down Eyre Peninsula to Cape Catastrophe. At dusk one evening the cutter goes missing with eight men onboard. A boat despatched at daybreak returns towing the wrecked cutter. Further searches fail to find the stricken shipmates. Unable to recover their bodies, Captain Flinders commemorates the drowned men. Among the victims are six volunteer seamen, the midshipman and his friend John Thistle, whose loss is keenly felt.

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  • Dwarf hopbush—Dodonaea humilis
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—Australian Botanical Drawings 27, 3188

  • Port Lincoln, a distant view
    Artist William Westall
    National Library of Australia—138876426

  • Port Lincoln Parrot or Australian Ringneck— Platycercus zonarius
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—993679902081_022, Plate 20

  • Old wife or angelfish—Enoplosus armatus
    Artist Ferdinand L Bauer
    Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London—993679902081_041, Plate 34

  • Commemorative plaque, Memory Cove
    History Trust of South Australia—State History Collection, HT 1987.3057