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{{Short description|English ship wrecked in 1803}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=July 2011}}
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|Ship armament=10&nbsp;×&nbsp;2 and 3-pounder guns<ref name=LoM>Letter of Marque, 1793–1815, p.75;{{cite web|url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.htm |title=War of 1812: UK sources for Privateers |accessdate=2015-10-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709083440/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.htm |archivedate=9 July 2015 }}</ref>
|Ship notes=Built of [[pedunculate oak|English oak]]<ref name = NZETC>{{cite web | url = https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucExpl-t1-body-d20-d2.html | title = Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia: John Turnbull - 1800–1804 | publisher = New Zealand Electronic Text Center | accessdate = 2008-10-31}}</ref>
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'''''Margaret''''' was a [[United Kingdom|British]]-built [[Australia]]n [[brig]] that was launched in 1799 and wrecked in 1803.
''Margaret'' was constructed in [[London]] in 1799 and registered to a company called ''Turnbull & Co''. [[John Buyers]], as her master, received a [[letter of marque]] on 28 May 1800.<ref name=LoM/> Buyers and John Turnbull, who had known each other from a 1799 voyage to [[China]] on the ''[[Barwell (1782 ship)|Barwell]]'', entered a venture with some London merchants to explore trade options. ''Margaret'' left London on 2 July 1801 and arrived in Sydney in February 1802.<ref name = NZETC/> Buyers and ''Margaret'' left [[Sydney]] on 5 June 1802, bound for the [[Society Islands]] on a [[seal hunting]] expedition.  Along the voyage the ship was the first European to discover both [[Makemo]], [[Taenga]], and rediscover [[Nukutepipi]] in March 1803.  On 17 April 1803 the ''Margaret'' was grounded on a [[reef]]. The crew cut away her [[Mast (sailing)|mast]] but by midnight they had to abandon ship. The crew reached shore in a small boat, which natives promptly stole; also, natives speared two of the crew. The crew constructed two small boats from the wreck and sailed off the island, eventually making it back to Sydney by 30 September 1803.<ref>{{cite book |author=Bateson, Charles |title=Australian shipwrecks volume 1: 1622–1850 |publisher=Reed |location=Wellington, [N.Z.] |year=1972 |pages= 34|isbn=0-589-07112-2 }}</ref>
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[[Category:1799 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in London]]
[[Category:Brigs of Australia]]
[[Category:Maritime history of Australia]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean]]
[[Category:History of New South Wales]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1803]]
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