Polype

A 'schooner' [but looks like a small boat – only 10 tons – maybe schooner-rigged] in SE Munro's ownership (ex Mori Flapan)

Polype | . | . 1891 | Fremantle | Chamberlain | 10 | Schooner

MARIE, POLYPE and SEA FOAM (bought from Burns Philp & Co.).
The earliest of these seems to be MARIE, which Munro bought from BP&Co. in 1894.

Luggers nq; Mori Flapan

West Australian 20 March 1891

The Polype, lugger, in charge of Captain Barton(?), has cleared for Cygnet Bay.

West Australian 3 April 1891

April 2 (9.30 am)-lugger POLYPE, at Broome from Fremantle.

NT Times & Gaz 12 May 1911

Mr. Budgen's pearling lugger, the Polype, returned during the week from a four months' trip down the coast in company with two luggers belonging to P. R. Allen & Co. The boats started away with the intention of proceeding as far as the English Company Islands, where there is every reason to believe good patches of shell exist. But as usual, owners are reticent as to what was done. The three boats are said to have kept company and to have voyaged as far as the islands named, doing some prospecting on the way. Some rough weather was experienced, and the Polype lost an anchor and several fathoms of chain. Some exceptionally good "live" bottom was found at the English Company Islands, but the big handicap to pearling in local waters— dirty water— is said to haye been very much in evidence.

NT Times & Gaz 21 June 1912

The South Sea Islander, Alick Oba, who was reported missing from the lugger "Polype" has turned up after an exciting experience of the kind one reads about in boys' books of adventure. Alick set out in a dinghy, as reported, and awoke in the morn- ing to find himself alone on a wide, wide sea, with only a bottle of whisky or some such spirituous food in his larder and one oar to his boat. As Melville Island was the nearest land in sight Alick set out to reach its shores, which he did after two days' paddling. He was then obliged to abandon the diighy and set out for a long walk round the coast of the island in search of the pearling luggers which he knew to be in the vicinity, and which he eventually reached.

NT Times & Gaz 6 Feb 1913

News has been received by Mr W. C. P. Bell of the total loss of the lugger Polype which left here in December last for Victoria River with a cargo. She appears to have reached the Victoria River and to have delivered her cargo of fencing wire, but came to grief on the return voyage It is believed she struck on one of the network of reefs off Cape Hay The crew are said to have got ashore safely at Port Keats, and to have made their way from there to Anson Bay. The Polype is reputed to have been twice previously lost and subsequently recovered; the third disaster is apparently the finale, of an adventurous career. The boat is owned locally and was chartered by Mr W C. P. Bell.