Summary

The vessel departed Cornwall on 18 November 1854 and arrived off Cape Northumberland, South Australia, 3 March 1855, reaching Hobsons Bay about 5 days later. The Captain was Richard Nicholls with a crew consisting of Job Kelynack, Charles Boase, two brothers, William and Richard Badcock, Lewis Lewis (cook) and another crewman called Phillip Curnow Matthews

The vessel sailed from Cornwall to Capetown and carried official mail from South Africa to Australia. It arrived in Port Phillip Bay on 14 March 1855 after a voyage of 115 days, one of the smallest immigrant ships to journey to Australia. The vessel was then used as a pilot boat and is recorded as being wrecked during a squall in Keppel Bay, Queensland on 26 March 1869.

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