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Bridgewater
Merchant ship of the East India Company. Was accompanying the 'Cato' and 'Porpoise' when the latter two were wrecked in 1803 on Wreck Reef. The captain assumed all had been lost and sailed on to India to report that Flinders was dead - subsequent inquiry proved him to be negligent in his duties to assist shipwreck survivors.

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