Katherine Stewart Forbes (ship)
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 Great Britain
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| Name: | Katherine Stewart Forbes |
| Owner: | Chapman |
| Operator: | Captain Alfred Fell |
| Launched: | 1818, Kent |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Barque |
| Tons burthen: | 457 |
| Length: | 117' 3" |
| Beam: | 29' 4" |
| Draught: | not recorded |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
Katherine Stewart Forbes was a barque built at Northfleet docks in Kent in 1818 to "second description first class" for the Chapman company. She weighed 457 tons and was variously recorded as a ship and a barque. She is recorded to have conveyed early settlers to New Zealand, and convicts to Australia in 1830 and 1832. Her masters were Captain Alfred Fell and Captain James Berry, chief officer was William Donovan, W B Willoughby was second officer and Duncan Donovan was third officer.
She is recorded to have made several trips from England to Australia; however, she made several more voyages between Australian settlements. Whilst in Australian waters she was variously employed in the seagoing transport trade.
She sailed from Plymouth on 18 October 1829 carrying 200 convicts and arrived at Port Jackson on 18 February 1830.
The voyage began with a cholera outbreak on board the day she sailed from Woolwich. She anchored in Plymouth Sound but was ordered to put to sea again after receiving medical supplies and the services of an assistant surgeon from the Royal Navy. She returned to the Thames Estuary and was laid up in Stangate Creek until the end of March before being allowed to resume her voyage. Of the 222 convicts aboard, 30 men developed cholera and 13 died before she finally set sail from Woolwich in February 1832 bound for Van Dieman's Land (arriving on 16 July) carrying 222 male convicts under the command of Captain James Berry.
She sailed from Gravesend on 27 July 1837 and arrived at Holdfast Bay on 17 October 1837 under the command of Captain Alfred Fell. carried 177 passengers on its voyage to South Australia during 1837. The passengers came from England and Ireland. There were six aged over thirty, of whom five paid their own way. There were 129 aged between fifteen and thirty, of whom only four were required to pay, and there were forty-two aged under fifteen, all of whom were granted free passage.
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