She is the only vessel of this set issued by Norfolk Island what did not appear before on a stamp.
She was built in 1808 at Norfolk Island.
Launched under the name ENDEAVOUR.
Two masted wooden schooner rigged vessel.
Tonnage 58 ton.
Maiden voyage to Sydney, and after one voyage back to Norfolk Island she was sold to the Sydney trader Isaac Nichols.
She traded thereafter along the New South Wales coast and in the Pacific to Otaheite (Tahiti).
1816 Taken in the Marquesas by pirates and plundered.
1821 Rebuilt in Sydney, still owned by Nichols.
1822 Purchased by the Missionary Society (John Williams) for the Chief of the Leeward Society Isles King Tamatoa at Raiatea.
She was then used for trading and missionary work.
1825/1826 Sold to Mr. Robinson at Hobart, and refitted in a trader and sealer for the southern oceans, and renamed HUNTER.
1829 Her owner is given as Chapman and Charlton, Hobart Town, tonnage 62 tons.
08 June 1828 she was driven ashore on Kapiti Island, or as it was then known Entry Island, New Zealand, during heavy weather.
No loss of human life, but the schooner became quickly a total wreck.
On Norfolk Island 2008 $1.20 sg?
Source: Info from Norfolk Island Post. Ships of Australia and New Zealand Before 1850 Part i1 by Ronald Parsons. New Zealand Shipwrecks by C.W.N. Ingram.
58 tons. 53 feet 6 inches in length by a beam of 17 feet four inches, and a depth of 10 feet. The schooner Endeavour was built in 1808 and made her maiden voyage to Sydney. After one voyage back to Norfolk Island, the schooner was sold in 1809 to Sydney trader, Isaac Nichols. The schooner traded along the New South Wales coast and in the Pacific to Otaheite. The schooner was taken by pirates in 1816 and plundered in the Marquesas. Rebuilt in 1921 in Sydney, she was later bought by King Tamatoa of Raiatea who used it for trading as well as missionary service. Sold in 1925 to George Robinson, a Hobart trader, the vessel was renamed Hunter, and fitted for sealing in the southern oceans. She was wrecked in June of 1829 on Kapiti Island.
Log Book March 2009.