Currency Lass (1826 schooner)

History
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Name	Currency Lass
Owner	Thomas Winder
Launched	16 October 1826
Fate	Sold foreign in 1839
General characteristics
Type	Schooner
Tons burthen	90 ton (bm)
Length	58’ 8”
Beam	19’ 11”
Draught	10’ 1”
Propulsion	Sail

Currency Lass was a 90-ton schooner, built in 1826 at Paterson Plains, New South Wales, Australia for Thomas Winder ^[1] & others.

Career

Built on the Paterson River at Branxton she was built by convict labour and launched in October 1826. ^[2] She plied the East Australian Coast, New Zealand and Hobart Town routes with cargo and passengers.

She transported convicts from Hobart Town to Sydney in 1834 and 1835 and transported convicts in Hobart Town in 1834.

The vessel was “sold foreign” in 1839. ^[3]

References

1. Guilford, Elizabeth. "Thomas White Winder (1789-1853)". adb.anu.edu.au. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
2. "The Australian". The Australian (Sydney), Saturday 14 October 1826, p.3. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
3. Parsons, Ronald (1983). Ships of Australia and New Zealand, before 1850, Part one, A-J (First ed.). McGill, South Australia. p. 44. ISBN   0-909418-27-6.

• Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships, 1787–1868, Sydney, 1974. ISBN   0-85174-195-9