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Swiftsure

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Ship Details

Rig

Clipper

Built

1854

Tonnage

1326

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14 December 1867 ➜ 15 March 1868

10 July 1867 ➜ 5 November 1867

30 January 1867 ➜ 8 May 1867

5 September 1866 ➜ 21 January 1867

21 February 1866 ➜ 6 June 1866

Description

originally named Fatherland. Bought and renamed Swiftsure by R & H Green for London - Melbourne run;

Media

Sources

Reference

Precis of passage in John Frederick Mortlock - Experiences of a Convict transported for twenty one years (1864, 1956)

Reference

Diary of voyage by Frederick Dodge

Location

Latrobe Library, Melbourne MS 11530

Reference

Letter by Louisa Geoghegan referred to in Pat Clarke - The Governesses (1985)

Location

From Female Middle Class Emigration Society records now in the Fawcett Library, City of London Polytechnic (now London Metropolitan University) and copied by Australian Joint Copying Project, 1963

Reference

Brief report in the Melbourne Argus, late December 1866

Reference

Log of Logs, Vol 3

Location

South Australian Maritime Museum

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