MATTHEW FLINDERS and his CREW on his VOYAGE to AUSTRALIA
From a Voyage to Terra Australis click here
Matthew Flinders Commander 
John Crosley Astronomer.  Left the expedition at the Cape (4)  X 1
Robert Brown Naturalist (4) (1)
John Allen Miner
Ferdinand Lucas Bauer Natural-history Painter (3) (4) X 2
William Westall Landscape and figure Painter (4)   X 3
Peter Good Gardener, Died on circumnavigation of Australia (4)
John Porter Servant to Robert Brown (1) 
White Servant to ?  (5)
Powel Servant to ?  (5)
Bounsall Servant to ?  (5)
Robert Merrick Fowler Lieutenant (4)
Samuel Ward Flinders 2nd Lieutenant
John Thistle   X 4  Master.  Died at Memory Cove (4)
Hugh Bell Surgeon 
Robert Purdie Surgeon's Assistant 
Thomas Evans Master's mate and midshipman (4)
John Franklin Master's mate and midshipman
William Taylor Master's mate and midshipman (4) Died at Memory Cove
Thomas Bell Master's mate and midshipman (4)
Nathaniel Bell Master's mate and midshipman
Kennet Sinclair Master's mate and midshipman 
Sherrard P Lound Master's mate and midshipman 
James Wolsey Master's mate and midshipman 
Denis Lacy  Master's mate and midshipman  X 5
John Whitewood Master's mate (4)
Charles Douglas Boatswain.  Died on circumnavigation (4)
Robert Colpits Gunner 
Russel Mart Carpenter
John Olive Clerk
Smith Coxswain  died at Memory Cove  (4)
George Lewis Seaman, died at Memory Cove (4)
William Grindal  X 7 Seaman, died at Memory Cove (4)
Little Seaman, died at Memory Cove (4)
Hopkins Seaman, died at Memory Cove (4)
Williams Seaman, died at Memory Cove (4)
Jack Wood Seaman 
Nathaniel Wright Seaman 
Benjamin Morgan Marine (7)
Williams Cook (1)
Deaths at Memory Cove (4) (2) From Robert Brown's Diary (4)
John Thistle  X 4 Master
Smith   X 6 Coxswain
George Lewis  X 6 seaman
William Grindal  X 7 seaman
Little   X 6 seaman
Williams  X 6 seaman
Taylor   X 6 midshipman
Hopkins X 6
Notes
X 1  Left the Expedition at the Cape X 2 Originally Baur (?)
X 3 Peter Good's Journal. Note 8. X 4 Robert Thistle in Robert Brown's Journal
X 5 K.A. Austin's Book X 6 Robert Brown's Journal (Peter Good's Journal)
X 7 Wm. Grindall in Robert Brown's Journal
Transcription from a Voyage to Terra Australis (2)
"And further to commemorate our loss I gave to each of the six islands nearest to Cape Catastrophe the name of one of the seaman.  Thistle's and Taylor's Island have been already mentioned."
 

Bibliography-
(1) Jupiter Botanicus: Robert Brown at the British Museum by D.J. Mabberley
(2) Voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803 in His Majesty''s Ship Investigator and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner.  (M. Flinders)
(3) The Flora Graeca Story: Sibthrop, Bauer and Hawkins in the Levant.  (H. W. Lack with D. J. Mabberley)
(4) The Journal of Peter Good: Gardener on Matthew Flinders voyage to Terra Australis 1801-1803 with introduction by P.I. Edwards.
(5) Matthew Flinders personal journal.
(6) Sydney Gazette, 10th June 1803.
(7) Nature's Investigator: the diary of Robert Brown in Australia 1801-1805.

Other Books include-
Ferdinand Bauer: The Australian Drawings
Ferdinand Bauer: The Nature Of Discovery
Nature's Investigator: Robert Browns Diary
Matthew Flinders (by James D Mack)

From  M. Flinders Book. "A Voyage to Terra Australis" (196?)

Astronomer  1 John Crosley
Naturalist     1 Robert Brown
Natural-history painter   1 Ferdinand Bauer
Landscape painter  1 William Westall
Their Servants   4
Gardener  1 Peter Good
Miner  1 John Allen
Supernumeraries   10
Commander   1 Matthew Flinders
Lieutenants    2 Robert Fowler and Samuel W. Flinders
Master   1 John Thistle
Surgeon   1 Hugh Bell
Surgeon's assistant  1 Robert Purdie
Master's mates & midshipmen   6 Thomas Evans
William Taylor
John Franklin
Thomas Bell
Nathaniel Bell
Kennet Sinclair
Sherrard P. Lound
James Wolsey
Boatswain  1 Charles Douglas
Gunner   1 Robert Colpits
Carpenter  1 Russel Mart
Clerk  1 John Olive
PART OF COMPLEMENT 16
Cook and mate   2
Sailmaker and mate   2
Armourer   1
Master at arms   1
Boatswain's mates  2
Gunner's mate   1
Carpenter's mates  2
D. crew  2
Quarter masters   4
Able and ordinary seamen and landsmen   35
MARINES
Serjeant   1
Corporal   1
Drummer   1
Privates   12
COMPLEMENT  83
DEFICIENCY
Sailmaker   1
Master at arms   1
Quarter masters   2
Cook's mate  1
Carpenter's crew  1
Seaman   1
Deficient of Complement   7

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