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She departed
Greenock 17 June 1841 and arrived
Port Phillip, Melbourne 2 October 1841 (the master was Brown). One of the emigrants disembarking was William Lauder Guild (1814-1863), a grandson of Dr.
Colin Lauder, FRCS (Edinburgh).
She cleared from Melbourne 9 November 1841 for Calcutta (master was Brown).
In 1847 she was surveyed in London; the master was Captain J Smith. She sailed for Madras.
She sailed from Portland 10 January 1847 to Victoria 4 May 1847 (the master was John Thomson). At the
Isle of Wight she took on 89
Parkhurst apprentices who were among the 288 male convicts/exiles who were sentenced to transportation and were discharged in Williamstown, Port Phillip [Victoria from 1851] on the day they arrived.[2]
She arrived Botany Bay, Sydney 17 January 1849
She sailed from Plymouth 28 October 1849 to Botany Bay, Sydney 3 February 1850 (master was G H Heaton). Surgeon-Superintendent, Charles Edward Strutt, and
Sir Arthur Hodgson both kept diaries. Many of the girls, who had been brought to Australia under the Earl Grey scheme for the emigration of female adolescents from Irish workhouses, married and settled at
Yass and
Gundagai, New South Wales.[3][4][5][6]
She sailed Sydney (24 Sept 1850) to Gravesend.
Letter in "The Times" 10 Sept 1851 describing the problems bringing the first gold to England (Captain G H Heaton).
She sailed in ballast Sydney (1 July 1852) to Guam (the master was Banatyne, weight 621 tons).
She sailed from Plymouth (9 June 1855) to Port Adelaide, South Australia, arriving 12 September 1855 (Captain R Martin), surgeon J O'Donnell. 2 births 0 death, 252 emigrants.
References
^MacGregor, David R. Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775-1875.
^McClaughlin, Trevor (2001). Barefoot & Pregnant?. Irish Famine Orphans Genealogical Society of Victoria.
^This ship is also the subject of Richard Reid & Cheryl Mongan's book A decent set of girls: The Irish Famine Orphans of the Thomas Arbuthnot, 1849-1850.