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She was infamous for her "fever ship" voyage in 1852 from Liverpool (England) to Port Phillip, Victoria (Australia) carrying 795 passengers, arriving on 3 November 1852. It was a double-decker ship, overcrowded, and with more than her recommended load of 630. Many passengers were small children, as the restrictions on the number of children per ...
Ellis Island was the gateway for over 20 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954. The island, in Upper New York Bay , was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934.
The seven remaining ships arrived at Jamestown only to bring diseased and hungry passengers to the stressed colony. [51] [52] Council members in bold. [6] [7] Those who died in Bermuda (or were lost at sea) are indicated with a Latin cross ( ️). Titles and occupations are from era accounts, but use modern British spellings.
Virtually every passenger list for the 3000 overseas and local ships that came to South Australia between 1836-1851, plus a host of additional information (individual names, ages, occupations, etc). Ing, Heidi (2020). South Australia's First Expedition: three generations of settler-colonial social mobility . Flinders University.
This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted ...
Pages in category "1800s ships" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Full-rigged ship Hibernia was a passenger ship built at Prince Edward's Island in 1828. She was transporting passengers from Liverpool to Australia when a shipboard fire in the South Atlantic ( 4°40′S 20°30′W / 4.667°S 20.500°W / -4.667; -20.500 ) on 5 February 1833 destroyed
Fully booked with passengers including Samuel Cunard, she arrived 15 and a half days later. [8] British Queen cleared New York for her return on 1 August, within an hour of Great Western and arrived at Portsmouth on the 15th. Both ships steamed about the same number of miles each day before Great Western anchored at Avonmouth.