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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
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 ...
Passengers Abeona (1811 ship) 324 or 331 James Pritchard 166 Albury (1804 ship) 338 to 342 Cunningham 166 Amphitrite [1] 274 Martin (or Davidson) 60 Aurora (1808 ship) 468 or 471 Thomas Pearson 344 Belle Alliance (1817 ship) [2] 637 Rolfe (or Roulff) 307 Brilliant (1814 ship) 330 or 332 William Bothwell 144 Cambrian: Brownrigg Canada (1811 ship)
Because Lady Juliana was the first ship to arrive after the First Fleet, some consider her part of the Second Fleet, but some do not. A transportation register can be seen at the UK National Archives. [9] After repairs to her strained timbers, Lady Juliana sailed for China on 25 July 1790 to take on a cargo of tea for the East India Company ...
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 ...
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City.
By the turn of the 20th century, larger ships meant more people could travel, but regulations were generally still insufficient to provide for all passengers: for example British legislation concerning the number of lifeboats was based on the tonnage of a vessel and only encompassed vessels of "10,000 gross register tons and over."