14/11/1864 - 10/03/1865

With 310 Souls; Government Assisted Migrants. The Queen Bee was seen on Friday afternoon far away to the westward of the Stations steering a course towards the Long Spit. She was followed by one of the pilot's cutters, but was first boarded by the boats from the beach, when a pilot took charge and stood for the eastward for the anchorage, were she came to shortly after dusk. The vessel is the same which last year sailed from Port Adelaide with horses for India, but the command has been changed to Capt. Goodwin, who reports leaving Plymouth on November 29th, and for 17 days after beating around the Channel with a continuance of very violent gales, during which she made but 300 miles of the distance. She was afterwards becalmed for 12 days, and to those untoward circumstances may be attributed the length of the voyage. Register 13/3/1865.