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Tasmanian Seafarers' Memorial
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Lady Denison (1850)
The plaque reads ... 
"Lady Denison "
Built 1847 at Port Arthur 158 tons
Sailed 17.04.1850 from Port Adelaide
to Hobart Captain E Hammond, 12 crew
Carrying 16 Passengers, 11 convicts,
3 prison guards - all lost in rough seas
presuably off N.W. tip of V.D.L.
Debris found south of Cape Grim.
The South Australia Register reported on Thursday, August 1, 1840:
"At length we have something like authentic intelligence of the missing barque. Captain Duncan, of the Lapwing, was informed by a sealer at Emu Bay that he had seen, about a month previously, on shore, and bottom up, a longboat marked Lady Denison. This was at the 'Church Rock,' on the west coast of Van Diemen's Land. Several oars, articles of clothing, part of the cabin, one of the tops, the poop-ladder, and a variety of other things were scattered along the beach for miles. There is, therefore, no longer any reason to doubt that the ill-fated barque met her un-timely fate in one of the heavy gales which were noticed after her departure hence. That some of the crew or passengers may have survived is barely possible, but we fear there is very little ground for hope. "