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'CORNWALL'

Built by:Wigram's & Green at Blackwall.
Yard No.
Launched:1849
Tonnage:487 22/94
Length:123 feet
Breadth:25 1/10
Depth:20 3/10
Machinery:Sail
Decks:One with 3 masts
Built of:Sheathed with Yellow Metal. Copper bolts subsitituted for Treenails.
Type:Barque. No figure head.
Registered:28th March 1848 - London No 101. Cert granted 24th March 1849.
Off Number:
Built for:Money Wigram & Son's.
Other info:Crew 29. Passengers 113 = 48 steerage & 65 saloon. Cargo 850 tons.
History:20th April 1849. Captain W.Dawson, sailed for New Zealand.
23rd September 1849. Arrived at Port Chalmers with 70 passengers, under charter to New Zealand Land.
Later on arrived at Dunedin.
24th February 1851. Sailed from Portsmouth, Captain Maundrell, for Gibraltar and Hobart Town.
1851. Arrived at Port Cooper (Lyttelton) N.Z. Captain A.Dawson.
12th August 1852. Sailed for New Zealand.
10th December 1852. Arrived at Lyttleton.
13th August 1853. Captain Dawson arrived from London at Wellington, with 112 passengers.
19th September 1853. Arrived at Nelson.



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