Elizabeth (1825 Yarmouth brig)

Elizabeth was a merchant ship built at Great Yarmouth, England in 1825. She made one voyage transporting convicts from Hobart Town to Sydney, Australia.

For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named Elizabeth.
History
Name: Elizabeth
Builder: Great Yarmouth
Launched: 1825,[1] or 1826[2]
General characteristics
Type: Brig
Tons burthen: 223, or 224[1] or 236[2] (bm)
Propulsion: Sail

Career

The Register of Shipping for 1830 shows Elizabeth with Swan, master, Ridley, owner, and trade Plymouth—New South Wales.[2]

Under the command of Captain Swan, she left Hobart Town on 15 December 1830, with cargo, passengers and twelve convicts.[3] She arrived in Sydney on 20 December 1830. Elizabeth departed Port Jackson bound for Launceston and London.

Citations
  1. Hackman (2001), p. 273.
  2. Register of Shipping (1830), Seq.№483.
  3. "The Courier". The Hobart Town Courier, Saturday 18 December 1830, p.2. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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References
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.


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