London/Gravesend for Brisbane

ship broke a piston rod in the Thames and passengers and emigrants transferred to Duke of Westminster, qv. After repairs, left London for Queensland late may 1886, via Suez Canal & Torres Strait, calling at Townsville; Journal (in Welsh) of emigrant voyage to Australia by Edward Roberts, Gwynned Archives (GAS), Caernarfon, Wales, UK, XM/262/24. Xerox copy in John Oxley Library, State Library of Qld;