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Title: The Gallant, Good Riou
, and Jack Renton
1901
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: April 19, 2008 [EBook #25106]
Last Updated: January 8, 2013
Language: English
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THE GALLANT, GOOD RIOU
,
and JACK RENTON
From The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories
By Louis Becke
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
1901
Contents
THE GALLANT, GOOD RIOU
This is a true story of one of Nelson's captains, he of whom Nelson wrote as the gallant and good Riou
—high meed of praise gloriously won at Copenhagen—but Riou, eleven years before that day, performed a deed, now almost forgotten, which, for unselfish heroism, ranks among the brightest in our brilliant naval annals, and in the sea story of Australia in particular.
In September, 1789, the Guardian, a forty-gun ship, under the command of Riou, then a lieutenant, left England for the one-year-old penal settlement in New South Wales. The little colony was in sore need of food—almost starving, in fact—and Riou's orders were to make all haste to his destination, calling at the Cape on the way to embark live stock and other supplies. All the ship's guns had been removed to make room for the stores, which included a plant cabin
—a temporary compartment built on deck for the purpose of conveying to Sydney, in pots of earth, trees and plants selected by Sir Joseph Banks as likely to be useful to the young colony—making her deck a complete garden,
says a newspaper of the time. Friends of the officers stationed in New South Wales sent on board the Guardian great quantities of private goods, and these were stored in the gun-room, which it was thought would be a safer place than the hold, but, as the event proved, it was the most insecure.
The ship arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in November, and there filled her decks with cattle and provisions, then sailed again, her cargo being equal in value to about £70,000. On December 23rd—twelve days after leaving the Cape—what is described as an island of ice
was seen. Riou gave orders to stand towards it in order to renew, by collecting lumps of ice, the supply of water, the stock of fresh water
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