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'SAMARANG'

Built by:Green, Wigram's & Green, at Blackwall.
Yard No.247
Launched:7th March 1840
Tonnage:454 55/94 - 582
Length:125
Breadth:26 2/10
Depth:19 7/10
Machinery:Sail
Decks:Two decks and a poop - three masts - Woman figure head.
Built of:Wood
Type:Square Rig
Registered:7th January 1851 No. 9 at London - Cert granted 12th March 1840 No. 110.
Off. Number:
Built for:Green, Wigram's & Green
Other info:Crew - 30 men.
Was known to be an English opium ship.
History:1843. Trading from London to Calcutta.
1851. Owned by by Money & Henry Loftus Wigram 48/64 shares, and William Buckle 16/64 shares.
24th March 1852. Sailed from the London Docks for Gravesend.
26th March 1852. Sailed from Gravesend with 120 passengers for New Zealand, Captain Escott.
28th March 1852. Sailed from the Downs.
27th May 1852. Crossed the Line.
31st July 1852. Arrived at Lyttelton, New Zealand, with passengers Mr. and Mrs. Brock, Miss A. Brook, Miss F. Brook, Rev. Mr. Morris, Dr. Livingstone, Messrs. Caulfield, Hall, Seale, R. Knight, A. Knight, Clements, Wilkinson, and Wright, and 107 in the Intermediate and Steerage.
2nd September 1852. Sailed from Lyttelton for Wellington, with passengers, Rev R.B. Paul, Messrs. Hall, Brook, Livingstone, Cholmondeley, Rev. Morris, Hon. J. S. Wortley, and Mrs. And 2 Misses Brook, and 12 in the steerage, plus part of the original cargo.
1853. Owned by William Ogston Young.
15th February 1869. Arrived at Sydney from London.


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