Poland issued in 1997 a stamp to commemorate that Pawel Edmund Strzelecki (1797-1873) a discoverer from Poland was born 200 years ago.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/32080/200 ... rpaul.html
The stamp depict also a sailing vessel barque rigged, the name is not given but Strzelecki arrived in Sydney on the French barque La JUSTINE and he left after his stay in Australia on board the British barque ANNA ROBERTSON. While I do not believe that from both vessels a drawing of painting exists it must be a ship from that period.
The JUSTINE a wooden barque rigged cargo vessel of 265 tons and owned by a Mr. Bernard from Bordeaux left Le Havre in 1837 under command of Capt. François Lucas with on board 240 emigrants bound for Sydney, Australia.
November 1837 she arrived at Rio de Janeiro where the emigrants were persuade to stay in Brazil and try there luck there.
The JUSTINE loaded thereafter sugar and proceeded via Montevideo and Cape Horn to the South America west coast, 25 January 1838 she arrived at Montevideo with damage, after she had thrown part of her cargo overboard after she had grounded on the English Bank. Most probably the rest of her cargo was sold there also before she headed to the Pacific.
She loaded horses in Valparaiso
12 February 1838 she sailed to Tahiti where Strzelecki boarded her for his voyage to Sydney, Australia.
She sailed via some Pacific Islands first to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand where she loaded 18 tons potatoes and still had on board 300 bushels of Chilean barley and three passengers under which Count Strzelecki (given in the rapport as Comte Traliski).
April she left from the Bay of Islands and arrived in Sydney on 27 April 1839.
Then she made a voyage from Sydney to Mauritius and Bourbon and was back in Sydney in February 1840 with a cargo of sugar, after making a call at Adelaide where part of the cargo was discharged.
After discharging and loading she left Sydney where after he crossed the Pacific to Valparaiso from where she left on 07 November 1840 bound for New Zealand.
29 March 1841 she was back in Sydney with a cargo of sundries, flour, wine and 9 passengers.
03 June she left Sydney bound for Bourbon with a general cargo.
July 1841 was she again in Valparaiso.
October was she in Arica, Chile to load for Bordeaux.
07 March 1842 was she towed in Locmariaquer, North West France after she had lost her rudder when struck on the rocks of Morbihan.
Early March 1842 arrived back in Bordeaux still under command of Capt. Lucas.
Her fate not known.
When he left Australia he boarded the barque ANNA ROBERTSON.
Built in 1816 at Calcutta under the name ANNA ROBERTSON for Nairn & Co., London
Tonnage 448 tons, dim. 112 x 29.11 x 5.11ft.
Tween decks.
Of her career I can not find much, only that she made in 1839 a voyage with emigrants to Australia under command of Capt. Augustus Munro.
27 May 1839 she sailed from London and arrived at Adelaide, Australia on 20 September 1839.
Most probably she was used regular between the U.K. to Australia.
23 April 1843 Strzelecki sailed on board the ANNA ROBERTSON from Sydney to Europe
05 April 1852 she sailed from London for Melbourne where she never arrived and the ANNA ROBERTSON was never seen again.
A ship similar in appearance was seen founder off the Cape of Good Hoop in August 1852.
Poland 1997 1.50zl. sg3702, scott3357.
Source: various web-sites. Migrant ships for South Australia 1836-1850 by Ronald Parsons. The Australian Run by Loney and Stone. Australian Newspapers on line (Trove)