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Flora Mc.Iver [also Flora MacIvor]: Track Boat
The Union Canal Company's first passage boat in operation January 1822 between Edinburgh and Ratho; an 'elegant and comfortable vessel'.
Route divided into four stages: Ratho, Winchburgh and Woodcockdale; journey estimated 4.5 hours; 'breakfast and tea provided': breakfast with 2 eggs 1s. in steerage; and 1s. 2d. in 'best cabin'; smoking prohibited.
The Macquaries travelled on the Flora Mc.Iver from Falkirk to Edinburgh on 23 October 1822 - at the commencement of their tour of Europe in 1822-1823.
[Sources: Lindsay, Jean. The Canals of Scotland. (Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1968), pp. 76-77; personal communication: Dr. Michael Nix (2007)].

HMS Forte Frigate [Fifth Rate, 50 Gun] (1794-1801) - Royal Navy
Originally la Forte: built in a French dockyard at Rochefort or Lorient in 1794.
Dimensions: length 150 ft.; breadth 43 ft.; 1401 tons. Guns: 30 x 24 Pounder; 2 x 12 Pounder + 20 x 32 Carronades. Crew: 343.
Captured 1 March 1799 by HMS Sybille off the Sand Heads, Bengal; wrecked 28/29 January 1801 on a rock at the entrance to the harbour at Jeddah during the expedition under the command of Major-General Baird to Egypt.
Macquarie was on close and familiar terms with the commander of La Forte, Captain Lucius Hardyman, having sailed with him from Calcutta to Bombay in 1799.
[Source: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers and fates. London: Chatham Publishing, 2005 p.134; Lyon, D. The Sailing Navy List...1688-1860. p.262; and Macquarie, L. Journal 1799-1801].

Foxhound - Whaler
English whaling vessel. Built in France and registered in London. Dimensions: 368 tons; Crew: 26-28 men.
Arrived in Sydney on 8 September 1818 and resumed her voyage on 22 September to the 'South Seas' whale fisheries, already carrying 100 tons of sperm oil for the London market.

HMS Foudroyant [Second/Third Rate, 80 Gun] (1798-1897) - Royal Navy
Two decker. Built at Plymouth Dockyard (ex Superb) and launched 31 March 1798 and completed 25 June 1798.
Dimensions & tons: 184ft, [151ft x 50ft x 22ft], 2054 tons. 80 Guns. Crew: 650 men.
The Foudroyant saw extensive active service during the Napoleonic Wars and was finally hulked in 1861. It became a gunnery training ship at Plymouth 1862-1884; 1890 sold to Wheatley Cobb as a boys' training ship; in June 1897 it was stranded on Blackpool Sands during a fundraising and propaganda cruise and broken up there.
The Foudroyant was the flagship of Rear Admiral Michael de Courcy in 1809 on the South America station when Lachlan Macquarie went on board [8 August] in Rio de Janeiro to pay his respects.
[Source: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers and fates. London: Chatham Publishing, 2005 pp.30-31; Macquarie, L. Journal August 1809.].

Francis - Schooner
Dimensions: 41 tons. Assembled in Sydney from frames sent out in the Pitt which arrived on 14 February 1792. Launched on 24 July 1793 - departed Sydney on first voyage, 8 September, to Dusky Bay, New Zealand. Accompanied the Lady Nelson on voyage to Newcastle in 1801 - collected 75 tons of coal which were exchanged for nails and iron in Sydney with the master of the ship Earl Cornwallis, Captain James Tennant. Wrecked at Newcastle (NSW) on 21 March 1805.

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