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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 ...
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
A ship named Caroline, under the command of Captain Howey, left London on 19 April 1828 and arrived in Sydney on 12 September 1828, carrying a cargo of general merchandise, livestock, and passengers including immigrants.
The Alameda was an iron-hulled passenger liner that was built in 1883 by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia [1] for the Oceanic Steamship Company. After the ship was completed in July 1883, eighteen-year-old Maggie Cramp, daughter of Joseph Cramp, played the piano at a reception; while disembarking, she slipped on the gangplank and drowned.
In 1854, the ship's owner was Duncan Dunbar, of London. [7] It also operated as an emigrant ship, as its journey to South Australia in 1855 shows. Notably, on this voyage, the ship carried 165 single female passengers, out of the total of 278 passengers embarked. [8] [9] Later journeys are designated as normal without any specific purpose. [10 ...
Sometimes these ships could reach 20 knots (37 km/h). "The Prinz Albert," 1897, by Antonio Jacobsen. Clippers were built for seasonal trades such as tea, where an early cargo was more valuable, or for passenger routes. The small, fast ships were ideally suited to low-volume, high-profit goods, such as spices, tea, people, and mail. The values ...