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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
In 1848–9, she was the first of three ships chartered by the Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang to bring free immigrants to Brisbane, Australia, arriving on 21 January 1849. [4] Captained by John Christmas, with the medical superintendent Henry Challinor , she departed Gravesend on 14 September 1848 and arrived at Moreton Bay on 21 January 1849.
Chaseley was a sailing ship. In 1848-9, she was one of three ships chartered by the Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang to bring free immigrants to Brisbane, Australia ; the other ships being the Fortitude and the Lima .
Lady MacNaghten [1] was an English barque of 553 tons, founded in 1825, which made numerous voyages to Australia, but remembered as the "Fever ship" for her 1837 voyage when one in six passengers died of illness either en route or shortly after arrival.
Hooghly was a full-rigged merchant ship built on the Thames, England, and launched in 1819.She made two voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC), four voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia, as well as voyages transporting emigrants to South Australia between 1839 and 1856.
HMS Rattlesnake, which rescued Barbara Thompson, by Oswald Walters Brierly. Barbara Crawford Thompson (c. 1831–1912) was a Scottish woman who, as a teenaged girl, survived a shipwreck in the Torres Strait Islands of Australia and spent five years living with the local Kaurareg people.
State Library of South Australia. 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 .
Anne, also known as Ann, was an 18th-century Spanish sailing ship that the British had captured in 1799. The British Navy Board engaged her to transport convicts from Cork in Ireland to the penal colony of New South Wales in Australia for one voyage from 1800 to 1801. During this voyage she was possibly present, although she did not participate ...