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Item: 169133
Surname: Shortland
First Name: Lieutenant John
Ship: -
Date: Died in 1810
Place: -
Source: Evening News
Details: An account of the death of John Shortland in 1810 - Captain Shortland at an early stage of the fight, received terrible wounds, and the command of the ship in consequence devolved on Lieut. Samuel Bartlett Deecker. The Junon was so cut to pieces in her hull and lower masts that her captors were forced to burn her. Out of her reduced crew of 224 men and boys, she lost 20 officers and men killed and 40 wounded. The gallant and terribly wounded Captain Shortland was landed at Guadaloupe. He had undergone amputation of the right leg above the knee and of a finger; a grape shot had also been extracted from his hand and he there been a probability of saving his life other operations would have been necessary. His removal in a scorching sun, to a hospital 13 miles away sapped the little vitality which shock had left. he died on January 21 1810 having been unable for over five weeks to sit up even on his bed. Captain Shortland was buried at Basse Terre with the highest military honors. - The Evening News 22 March 1902


 
Item: 77110
Surname: Shortland
First Name: Lieutenant John (junior)
Ship: -
Date: 1797
Place: Hunter River
Source: Collins
Details: Entered Hunter River on his return to Sydney after a failed pursuit of escaping convicts


 
Item: 162754
Surname: Shortland
First Name: Lieutenant John (junior)
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
Details: In 1787 John Shortland's father secured his appointment as master's mate in the Sirius when the First Fleet sailed for Australia. Shortland spent nearly five years in Australia including eleven months on Norfolk Island where the Sirius was wrecked in 1790. In 1792 he returned to England with Hunter and next year was promoted lieutenant in the Arrogant. In 1794 he returned to Australia with the new governor, John Hunter, in the Reliance as first lieutenant. In this capacity he was too busy to join his shipmates, George Bass and Matthew Flinders, in their expeditions, but on 9 September 1797, while on his way to Port Stephens in pursuit of some runaway convicts who had seized 'the largest and best boat, belonging to Government', he entered the estuary of the Hunter River, where William and Mary Bryant and their party had probably sheltered briefly when they escaped northwards in 1791. During his brief stay Shortland named the river, though for some years it was often referred to as the Coal River, made the first chart of the harbour in the form of an eye-sketch and collected some samples of coal; in a later letter to his father he predicted that his discovery would prove 'a great acquisition to the settlement'...........


 
Item: 77112
Surname: Shortland
First Name: Lieutenant John (junior)
Ship: Sirius 1788; Reliance 1794
Date: -
Place: -
Source: -
Details: Born 5 September 1769. Arrived in Australia with First Fleet in 1788 as master's mate in the 'Sirius'. Returned to Aust. In 1794 on the 'Reliance'


 
Item: 162753
Surname: Shortland
First Name: Lieutenant John (senior)
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: -
Source: The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
Details: LIEUTENANT JOHN SHORTLAND very early in life had a strong predilection for the Navy, and in 1755 at the age of sixteen, he entered into his Majesty's service, on board the Anson, a sixty gun ship, which went out in the fleet under the command of Admiral Boscawen. On the Banks of Newfoundland this fleet fell in with, and took the Alcide and Ly's, two French ships, of seventy four guns. On his return from this expedition, he went on board the Culloden, a seventy-four gun ship, and was in the fleet under Admiral Byng, off Minorca. Shortly afterwards, he went into the Hampton Court, commanded by Captain Harvey, in which ship he was present at the taking of the Foudroyant and Arpe. On his arrival in England, he went on board the Vanguard, Commodore Swanton, to the West Indies, in the fleet under Admiral Rodney, and was present at the reduction of Martinique, the Grenades, and the other islands which were then captured. In 1763, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by Admiral Swanton ; since which period he has always been employed in active and important services. During the late war, and for some time afterwards, he was chiefly employed in going to and from America, except in the year 1782, when he was appointed to command the transports with the 97th regiment on. board, destined for the relief of Gibraltar, under convoy of his Majesty's ships Cerberus and Apollo : he was not only successful in getting all the transports in safe, but he also landed the men without any loss. On Lieutenant Shortland's return home from this service, in endeavouring to get through the Gut of Gibraltar in the night, he was chased by a squadron of Spanish frigates, who took three of the transport* in company, but he was so fortunate as to escape in the Betsey transport, and arrived safe in England,- without either loss or damage. In the year 1786, he was appointed Agent to the transports sent by Government to New South Wales, at which place he arrived in January, 1788. After remaining six months at the new settlement at Port Jackson, he was ordered to England by way of Batavia, by his Excellency Governor Phillip, who honoured him with the official dispatches for Government, and he arrived in England on the 29th of May, 1789..........The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay: with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island ... To which are added the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, and Capt. Marshall (Google eBook)



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