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From: "The Walkers" <>
Subject: [AUS-SAGEN] Forfarshire
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:23:21 +0930


This is part of a response I received from a contact on the Mariners List
regarding the elusive 'Forfarshire'. There were apparently 4 ships by this
name but I thought that this snippet may help those of us who would love to
find a passenger list. My great-great-grandmother came out in 1848 on this
ship and I know the ship also went to Tasmania in 1843 as a convict ship.

If anyone would like the full message, I am happy to pass it along. It just
details a bit more about the different ships by the same name.

I think that if this is the ship you are looking for, the only hope of
finding out if a relative was a passenger would be to check out obituaries
(this was how I found out what ship gg-grandmother arrived on). I fear this
is the best we are going to be able to do.

Hope this helps.

Mari in Adelaide

>
> 1. The first Forfarshire I have come across was a small sailing
> smack of 145 tons built in 1823 and lost in 1832.
> 2. The second was the vessel, a paddle wheel steamer, built in
> Dundee in 1835 and lost in 1838. This is the disaster that led to the
> famous "Grace Darling" rescue. Lots of stuff on the net re Grace
> Darling.
> 3.The third is the vessel that you and I are looking for, existing
> between the 1838 disaster and the construction of the fourth vessel in
> 1867, and for which there appears to be very little information
> available.
> 4. The fourth was the 1238 ton three masted, full rigged ship, built
> in 1867 and reported: a) apparently sold to Argentina in 1895, and b)
> ended as hulk in Thames. (Don't know which version is correct)


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