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The Highland and Island Emigration Society was a charitable society formed to promote and assist emigration as a solution to the Highland Potato Famine. Between 1852 and 1857, it assisted the passage of around 5,000 emigrants from Scotland to Australia. The Society's work was both praised for providing a solution to the famine in Scotland, and ...
Ten Pound Poms were British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after the Second World War. The Government of Australia initiated the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945, [1][2] and the Government of New Zealand initiated a similar scheme in 1947. [3] The Australian government arranged for assisted passage to Australia on ...
Lady Macnaghten. 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.
John Frost. Gilburri (1814–1902), Irish Fenian, transported to New South Wales in 1838 for desertion. Thomas McCarthy Fennell (1841–1914), Irish Fenian, transported to Western Australia in 1868 for treason. William Field (1774–1837), English businessman, transported to New for receiving stolen goods.
RMS Cameronia. RMS. Cameronia. Cameronia was a British ocean liner which was built in 1920 by William Beardmore & Co Ltd, Dalmuir for the Anchor Line. She was requisitioned for use as a troopship in the Second World War, surviving a torpedo attack. In 1953 she was requisitioned by the Ministry of Troop Transport (MoTT) and renamed Empire Clyde.
White Sea to Scotland: 30 December 1942 23 May 1945 17 (# 51-67) replaced QP convoys RB United States to British Isles September 1942 September 1942 1 small passenger steamers SC: Sydney, Nova Scotia (or Halifax Harbour or New York City) to Liverpool: 15 August 1940 26 May 1945 177 7-knot convoys of eastbound ships too slow for the 9-knot HX ...
Narkunda. The SS Narkunda was a passenger ship commissioned in 1920 by the British shipping company, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which carried passengers and mail from Great Britain to Australia and later to the Far East. From 1940 she served as a troop ship until she was sunk on 14 November 1942, on the Algerian coast ...
RMS Caledonia (1925) RMS Caledonia (1925) was a 17,046-ton British passenger ship built for the Anchor Line by Alexander Stephen and Sons at Glasgow, Scotland, and was launched on 21 April 1925. In 1939 she was converted to an armed merchant cruiser and renamed to HMS Scotstoun. A German submarine sank her on 13 June 1940.