Ship Summary
Vessel
Journey
Origin
Depart Date
Thursday, June 24, 1841
Destination
Ports of Call
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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