By Noel Bowley
John Oxley was tasked to assess locations for future settlements in Queensland. To do this, he set off in the 80 ton cutter Mermaid. Mermaid was a yacht type vessel with a single mast and two foresails. Its captain was Lieutenant Stirling (Oxley was a surveyor, not a ship’s captain).
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