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Contest was an Australian sloop wrecked in 1807. She was a sloop of some 44 tons (bm), built in Port Jackson, New South Wales, by James Underwood, owned by Kable & Co, and registered on 20 July 1804. On 28 February 1807 she was sailing for Newcastle, New South Wales, but the wind would not allow her to make the harbour and so she continued north. A little short of Port Stephens, New South Wales, a heavy storm drove Contest ashore, where she was smashed to pieces. All the crew were saved but no cargo was salvageable.

References

1. Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2 p44

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1807
Shipwrecks	23 Jan: HMS Orpheus 12 Feb: HMS Atalante 13 Feb: HMS Wagtail, HMS Woodcock 14 Feb: HMS Ajax 18 Feb: HMS Snipe 28 Feb: Contest February (unknown date): Thought 4 Mar: HMS Blanche 5 Mar: HMS Pigmy 8 Mar: Crescent March (unknown date): HMS Cesar 20 Apr: HSwMS Ulla Fersen 29 May: HMS Jackal 30 May: Ganges 17 Jul: Pretty Lass 27 Jul: Fame 13 Aug: HMS Cassandra 14 Oct: HMS Pert 16 Oct: HMS Maria 25 Oct: HMS Subtle 10 Nov: Salisbury 28 Nov: HMS Boreas, Lady Warren 10 Dec: Otter 29 Dec: HMS Anson December (unknown date): Adolphe, Albion Unknown date: Ceres, Eliza Ann, HMS Moucheron
Other incidents	13 May HMS Dauntless
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