Lightning Modify Page Content Ship Details Rig Clipper ship of Black Ball Line Tonnage 2084 VoyagesView Full List 9 June 1861 ➜ 30 August 1861 Lightning Liverpool Melbourne 13 May 1854 ➜ 30 July 1854 Lightning Liverpool Melbourne 17 February 1854 ➜ 3 March 1854 Lightning Boston Liverpool Lightning Liverpool Melbourne Description Four round voyages Media Lightning Upload Media Sources Reference Account and Abstract log of Atlantic voyage in Liverpool Albion c 06/03/1854 and reprinted in Arthur Hamilton Clark - The Clipper Ship Era (USA 1910, 1970) Reference Journal 25/05/1854 - 28/07/1854 by John W Whitings, passenger Location Copy, National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 5071 Reference John Fenwick - The Lightning Diary of John Fenwick (Geelong Historical Society, 1969) Location Reference Don Charlwood - The Long Farewell (1981) Location Copy, Latrobe Library, Melbourne MS7595 Reference Diary extracts in "Dog Watch" Number 25 and 26, the journal of the Shiplovers' Society Victoria Reference Lightning Gazette and Black Ball Line Advertiser of 1855 and Numbers 1 - 12, 30/08/1856 to 20/11/1856 Location Mitchell Library, Sydney 910.42L Reference editions, 08/09/1855 - 27/11/1855 and 14/02/1857 - 16/04/1857 Location Latrobe Library, Melbourne MS 9595, 8468-9 Reference Extracts published in Basil Lubbock - The Colonial Clippers (1948) Your Stories Your name * E-mail * Post your story * Submit Leave this field blank Share this Page Share this ship with your friends and followers online.
Reference Account and Abstract log of Atlantic voyage in Liverpool Albion c 06/03/1854 and reprinted in Arthur Hamilton Clark - The Clipper Ship Era (USA 1910, 1970)
Reference Journal 25/05/1854 - 28/07/1854 by John W Whitings, passenger Location Copy, National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 5071
Reference John Fenwick - The Lightning Diary of John Fenwick (Geelong Historical Society, 1969) Location
Reference Don Charlwood - The Long Farewell (1981) Location Copy, Latrobe Library, Melbourne MS7595
Reference Diary extracts in "Dog Watch" Number 25 and 26, the journal of the Shiplovers' Society Victoria
Reference Lightning Gazette and Black Ball Line Advertiser of 1855 and Numbers 1 - 12, 30/08/1856 to 20/11/1856 Location Mitchell Library, Sydney 910.42L
Reference editions, 08/09/1855 - 27/11/1855 and 14/02/1857 - 16/04/1857 Location Latrobe Library, Melbourne MS 9595, 8468-9
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