Thomas Arbuthnot (ship)
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The ship Thomas Arbuthnot was a fast sailing ship, weighing 523 tons (using old measurements), 621 tons (using new measurements). She carried the first Australian gold
from Australia to England 1851
. Believed to be named after and owned by Thomas Arbuthnot of Meethill (1792-1872), merchant, shipowner and (Provost of Peterhead).
Australian gold rushes
The Australian gold rush started in 1851 when prospector Edward Hammond Hargraves claimed the discovery of payable gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, at a site Edward Hargraves called Ophir.Eight months later, gold was found in Victoria...
from Australia to England 1851
1851 in Australia
See also:1850 in Australia,other events of 1851,1852 in Australia,1853 in Australia,1854 in Australia,and theTimeline of Australian history....
. Believed to be named after and owned by Thomas Arbuthnot of Meethill (1792-1872), merchant, shipowner and (Provost of Peterhead).
History
- Owners: Arbuthnot (sic).
- Port of Registry: PeterheadPeterheadPeterhead is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is Aberdeenshire's biggest settlement , with a population of 17,947 at the 2001 Census and estimated to have fallen to 17,330 by 2006....
. - Constructed 1841 in AberdeenAberdeenAberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....
. - She departed GreenockGreenockGreenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland...
17 June 1841 and arrived Port PhillipPort PhillipPort Phillip Port Phillip Port Phillip (also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or (locally) just The Bay, is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia; it is the location of Melbourne. Geographically, the bay covers and the shore stretches roughly . Although it is extremely shallow for...
, Melbourne 2 October 1841 (the master was Brown). One of the emigrants disembarking was William Lauder Guild (1814 - 1863), a grandson of Dr. Colin LauderColin LauderColin Lauder, was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and a Burgess of Edinburgh...
, FRCS (Edinburgh). - She cleared from Melbourne 9 November 1841 for Calcutta (master was Brown).
- Some repairs in 1842.
- New keel and further repairs 1844.
- In 1845 the ship was sheathed in yellow metal.
- In 1847 she was surveyed in London; the master was Captain J Smith. She sailed for Madras.
- She sailed from Portland 10 January 1847 to Victoria 4 May 1847 (the master was John Thomson). At the Isle of WightIsle of WightThe Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
she took on 89 Parkhurst apprenticesParkhurst apprenticesThe Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas" and transported to Australia and New Zealand between 1842 and 1852...
who were among the 288 male convicts/exiles who were sentenced to transportation and were discharged in Williamstown on the day they arrived. - She arrived Botany Bay, Sydney 17 January 1849
- She sailed from Plymouth 28 October 1849 to Botany Bay, Sydney 3 February 1850 (master was G H Heaton). Surgeon-Superintendent, Charles Edward Strutt, and Sir Arthur HodgsonArthur HodgsonSir Arthur Hodgson KCMG was an Australian pioneer and politician.-Early life:Hodgson was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England; the second son of the Rev. Edward Hodgson and his third wife Charlotte, daughter of Francis William Pemberton of Bombay, India...
both kept diaries. Many of the girls, who had been brought to Australia under the Earl Grey scheme for the emigration of female adolescents from Irish workhouses, married and settled at YassYass, New South WalesYass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Yass Valley Shire. The name appears to have been derived from an Aboriginal word, "Yarrh" , said to mean 'running water'....
and Gundagai, New South WalesGundagai, New South WalesGundagai is a town in New South Wales, Australia. Although a small town, Gundagai is a popular topic for writers and has become a representative icon of a typical Australian country town...
. url = http://irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/ships_nsw.htm | title = Immigration Shipping List for the Ship THOMAS ARBUTHNOT from BOARD OF IMMIGRATION SHIPPING LIST -SYDNEY ORPHANS PER SHIP THOMAS ARBUTHNOT ARRIVED 3 FEBRUARY 1850 SRNSW 4/4919 Reel 2467 | format = | work = Trevor McClaughlin, Barefoot & Pregnant?Irish Famine Orphans Genealogical Society of Victoria, (2001) - She sailed Sydney (24 Sept 1850) to Gravesend.
- Letter in "The Times" 10 Sept 1851 describing the problems bringing the first gold to England (Captain G H Heaton).
- She sailed in ballast Sydney (1 July 1852) to Guam (the master was Banatyne, weight 621 tons).
- She sailed from Plymouth (9 June 1855) to Port Adelaide, South Australia, arriving 12 September 1855 (Captain R Martin), surgeon J O'Donnell. 2 births 0 death, 252 emigrants.