'Emily Taylor' & Augusta, 1830

Today 'Emily Taylor' is a bar in the fashionable port City of Fremantle, but first it was the name of a ship built in Bombay for the British East India Company and subsequently sold to a private concern. It was chartered by the Western Australian goverment to transport settler families to establish the colony's third settlement, the town of Augusta on Cape Leeuwin in 1830. Not long after 'Emily Taylor' would forever became part of the history of WA when it was blown ashore and wrecked on its return voyage to Fremantle.

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'Emily Taylor' & Augusta, 1830 is an episode from Backyard Battlefields.

This episode is 08:32 long.

This episode was published on Jul 2, 2025.

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