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Field name | Value |
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Title | Passenger Contract Ticket, Carpentaria, Liverpool to Melbourne |
Date | 1 May 1854 |
Document Type | Shipping Papers |
Reference | HT 11901 |
Library / Archive | Museums Victoria |
Collection Name | Tickets of Passage |
Description | Presumed steerage class ticket for the Carpentaria, leaving from Liverpool for Melbourne on 1 May 1854 for the sum of £18. The ticket was issued to 31 year old August Kleine, by Frackleton's American Emigration Office, Liverpool. |
Biographical Note / History | The 1,460 ton square-rigged ship Carpentaria arrived in Hobsons Bay on 1 August 1854 carrying 542 second and third-class passengers after a passage of 79 days. This was the day after the arrival of the more famous clipper ship the Lightning, on her maiden voyage from Liverpool. |
Theme(s) | Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation; Ships and Shipping Lines |
Country (from) | Great Britain |
Country (to) | Australia |
Places | Hobson's Bay, Australia |
Ports | Liverpool, England; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Ships | Carpentaria |
People | Kleine, August |
Keywords | shipping, ticket, emigration |
Additional Information | Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the Museum Victoria catalogue. |
Catalogue Link | Museums Victoria Catalogue |
Language | English |
Copyright | Museums Victoria |