He named it after the colonial schooner Champion, in which George Fletcher Moore had travelled to the region in the preceding year.
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Following the desertion of a majority of the party to Singapore, McMinn and 5 others purchased a 23-foot open boat which they named the Forlorn Hope and sailed it 2000 miles to Champion Bay, Geraldton, Western Australia.