1829 ship arrivals
This is a list of all 21 ships that arrived at Fremantle in 1829, from Hitchcock: 15.
Hitchcock:
During 1829, twenty-one vessels arrived at Fremantle, and as the vessels that arrived during that and the following year may be said to have brought the 'Pilgrim Fathers' to our shores, the list is given below. The tonnages of the visiting craft are shown in parentheses and the number of passengers, if any, thereafter: (Hitchcock)
April 25: HMS Challenger - brought Capt Fremantle
June 2: Parmelia (443) 69 - brought Lt Gov. Stirling, first settlers
June 8: HMS Sulphur, with a detachment of 63rd Regiment
August 5: Calista (316) 73 - second boatload of settlers
August 6: St Leonard (362)
August 23: Marquis of Anglesea (351) 104 - wrecked on Bathers Bay/Manjaree
September 20: Thomson [Thompson] (266)
September 22: Amity (175)
October 5: Georgiana (403)
October 6: Lotus (397) 60
October 9: Ephemina (288) 12
October 12: Orelia (382) 11
October 12: Caroline (329) 66
October 12: Cumberland (444) 4
October 17: Governor Phillip
October 19: Atwick (341) 72
October 22 : Admiral Gifford (43)
November 11: Lion (275)
November 14: Dragon (134)
November 28: HMS Success
December 15: Gilmore (500) 182
References and Links
Hitchcock, JK 1929, The History of Fremantle, The Front Gate of Australia 1829-1929, FCC.
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