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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Otter was a fur-trading vessel which was most famous for the rescue, under command of Capt. Ebenezer Dorr ( Dawes ), of Thomas Muir, a famous Scottish political exile. Muir was convicted of sedition before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh in 1793. He was sentenced and transported to the convict settlement at Sydney Cove for the space of fourteen years on 31 August 1793. The Otter, commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Dorr ( Dawes ), was fitted out at Boston, and despatched for Sydney. The Boston register of clearances, Treasury Dept. archives, dates her clearance 20 August 1795. She anchored in Sydney Harbour on 25 January 1796. On 11 February 1796, Muir escaped from the convict settlement on board the Otter. The voyage of the Otter across the Pacific was famously chronicled by Pierre Francois Peron.

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