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Thistle, John
Ship's Master, HMS 'Investigator'. Had served with Bass in his whaleboat voyages and with Flinders in the 'Norfolk'. Lost with William Taylor and six others at what became Cape Catastrophe on 22 February 1802 in a boat accident. Flinders left a copper plate with details of the tragedy on the mainland and named it Memory Cove.

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