Captain Cook (1826 ship) Captain Cook (1826 ship) Captain Cook was a 452-ton merchant ship built at Whitby, England in 1826. She made three voyages transporting convicts from Ireland and England to Australia. On her first convict voyage, under the command of William Steward and surgeon Eben Johnson, she departed Dublin, Ireland on 5 November 1831, with 200 male convicts. She arrived in Sydney arriving on 2 April 1832. There were two convict deaths en route. "Captain Cook" left Port Jackson on 15 May 1832 bound for Launceston. The second convict voyage, under the command of William Thompson and surgeon John Morgan, she departed
James Gibson (seaman) James Gibson (seaman) James Gibson (1700 – 1752) was a British ship Captain who became a merchant in the British Colonies of Jamaica and the Province of Massachusetts Bay. During King George's War(1744–1748), William Shirley, the Governor of Massachusetts, debated whether to siege and capture the French Fortress of Louisburg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. According to Gibson's journal, he convinced Governor Shirley that the siege would be successful, and used his personal wealth to provide three hundred soldiers for the campaign. Gibson wrote an account of the Siege of Louisburg and it was published in London in late