Distressing situation of the Guardian sloop, Capt. Riou, after striking on a floating Island of ice RMG PU6024
This is a hand-coloured aquatint of the ‘Guardian’ in grave distress after striking an iceberg in the Southern Ocean, in longitude 41 degrees east. The accident happened as she was taking stores and skilled personnel to the straitened and newly established ‘Botany Bay’ convict colony at Port Jackson (modern Sydney). Eleven days out from Cape Town, on 23 December 1789, as she approached the iceberg in order to obtain fresh water, her rudder and part of her keel were torn off when she struck a submerged spur of ice. Through his brilliant seamanship and forceful personality, the commander, Lieutenant Edward Riou, was successful in getting the vessel back to Table Bay at Cape Town by the following February, after half the crew abandoned ship (half of those being lost). This is a later image from one of a well-known series of sensational pamphlets about ‘dreadful shipwrecks’, and not a factually accurate one: the ship is represented more as a frigate than a storeship. The ‘Guardian’ was sold there in 1791.
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Guardian (Schiff, 1784)Die Guardian war ein Schiff der britischen Royal Navy. Sie wurde 1784 als 44-Kanonen-Zweidecker der Roebuck-Klasse gebaut. Weil Schiffe dieses Typs sich im Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg als ineffektiv herausgestellt hatten, benutzte man viele davon in späteren Jahren als Transportschiffe. Für diese Rolle wurden auch bei der Guardian die Kanonen des unteren Decks entfernt. Am 12. September 1789 lief das Schiff von Spithead unter dem Kommando von Leutnant Edward Riou nach Port Jackson in New South Wales aus. Sie war Bestandteil der im Nachhinein berüchtigten Second Fleet. .. weiterlesen