Greenock - Rio - Melbourne

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Depart Date

Thursday, June 24, 1841

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Journey Notes

transported Scottish migrants; Caught fire NE of Rio on 19/7/1841 and forced to abandon ship with insufficient lifeboats. One sailor and 17 migrants lost, but remaining 198 dramatically rescued by French whaler Roland; Account in "Perilous Voyages to the New land", by M. Cannon, (Vic, 1995); Many surviving migrants journeyed onto Melbourne in the Bark Grindlay, qv

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