Replica of the Brig Amity

The Brig Amity was built in Canada in 1816. It arrived in Sydney in 1824 and was used in the colonial service until it was wrecked on the coast of Tasmania in 1845.

In 1975 craftsmen using timber from local forests built the Amity Replica. It is an accurate reconstruction of this ship which brought major lockyer, two military officers, 18 rank and file soldiers, 23 convicts and a surgeon from Sydney to Albany, arriving on Christmas day 1826 to form Western Australia's first settlement.

Some 60 people made the trip from Sydney in the tiny ship with sheep, pigs, cattle, plants, seeds and stores for the 45 who disembarked to establish a penal and military outpost of New South Wales.

An inspection below decks will create wonderment on how such a tiny vessel coped with 60 men plus livestock.