The wreck of the Tryal - papers, 1622

DLMSQ 646

fonds

1622

945868

1 folder of textual material (2 items) - photocopies - 26 cm.

The wreck of the Tryal was the first-known loss of an English ship in Australian waters, occurring on rocks off the north-west coast. The Tryal, an East India Company ship commanded by John Brooks, left Plymouth for Java in September 1621, and ran aground on Tryal Rocks in May 1622.

Contents include photocopies of letters:

26 December, 1620 from Launcelot Fenwick, purser's mate of the East India Company ship Royal Exchange at Jakarta, to the Directors of the Company.

Thomas Bright to Andrew Elam, 22 August 1622 (Bright was in charge of the longboat in which part of the tryal's crew escaped to Jakarta).

John Brooke to the Directors of the company, 25 August, 1622, re the wreck of the tryal, and also giving a list of survivors.

a. Item 1. Positive photocopies
b. Item 2. Another copy. Negative photocopies

Photocopies of Bright's and Brooke's letters, with transcripts are filed in the Mitchell Library at MLMSS 979, and a copy of Brooke's letter is also filed at Ab179.

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

Transferred from DLSPENCER 217