Peter Hibbs was Recovery's owner. In early June 1816 Recovery headed from
Hawkesbury to
Port Jackson with a cargo of grain when a storm came up that blew Recovery out to sea. On turning the ship around it was wrecked near Port Stephens. The crew of two men, and a woman passenger, struggled ashore and walked 50 miles to
Newcastle. On the way some aborigines stripped them of all their clothes. At Newcastle they were given passage to Sydney on the sloop, Windsor which was also wrecked.[1][2][3]