Cato (ship)

Cato (ship)

The "Cato" was a ship of 430 tons constructed at Stockton in England and registered in London to Reeve & Green. It was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in 1804.

On 10 August 1803, "Cato" left Sydney in the company of the ships HMS "Porpoise" and "Bridgewater" bound for India. On 17 August the three ships got caught near a sandbank, 157 miles north and 51 miles east of Sandy Cape. With shrinking leeway, both the "Cato" and HMS "Porpoise" were grounded. "Bridgewater" sailed on, despite knowing that the other two ships had come to grief. The crew and passengers of the other ships were able to land on a sandbank as both their ships broke up.

On 26 August 1803 with no sign of rescue, "Porpoise" passenger Matthew Flinders and Captain John Park of the "Cato" took the largest cutter (which they named "Hope") and twelve crewmen and headed to Sydney to seek rescue. Through marvellous navigation, "Hope" made it to Port Jackson by 8 September. Three lives were lost in the joint shipwreck. The remaining passengers were rescued. [ "Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850", Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0 589 07112 2 p35 ]

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