Isabella (1827 ship)

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Name:Isabella
Builder: T. Barrick [1]
Launched: 1827, Whitby
Fate: Wrecked in 1841
General characteristics
Type: Barque
Tons burthen: 323 (bm)
Propulsion: Sail

Isabella was a 323-ton merchant ship built in Whitby, England in 1827. She made one voyage transporting convicts from Ireland to Australia. She was wrecked on a reef off the Caroline Islands in 1841.

Whitby Coastal town in North Yorkshire, England

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Cædmon, the earliest recognised English poet, lived. The fishing port emerged during the Middle Ages, supporting important herring and whaling fleets, and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship. Tourism started in Whitby during the Georgian period and developed with the arrival of the railway in 1839. Its attraction as a tourist destination is enhanced by the proximity of the high ground of the North York Moors national park and the heritage coastline and by association with the horror novel Dracula. Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby Jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians, became fashionable during the 19th century.

Caroline Islands archipelago

The Caroline Islands are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end. Historically, this area was also called Nuevas Filipinas or New Philippines as they were part of the Spanish East Indies and governed from Manila in the Philippines.

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Career

Isabella first appears in the Register of Shipping for 1827 with J. Brown, master, and Nelson & Co. as owner. Her trade is Weymouth to the Baltic. [2]

The entry for Isabella in Lloyds Register for 1840 gives her master as "M'Ausland", her owner as H. Nelson, her homeport as London, and her trade as London to Sydney. [3]

Under the command of Alexander McAusland and surgeon Henry Mahon, Isabella left Dublin, Ireland, on 5 March 1840 and arrived at Sydney on 24 July 1840, having sailed via the Cape of Good Hope. [4] She embarked 119 female convicts, passengers, and cargo. No convicts died on the voyage. [5]

Dublin Capital city of Ireland

Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Situated on a bay on the east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey, it lies within the province of Leinster. It is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region as of 2016 was 1,347,359. The population of the Greater Dublin Area was 1,904,806 per the 2016 census.

Cape of Good Hope Headland of Cape Peninsula, South Africa

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

Isabella sailed from Sydney for Newcastle on 27 August in ballast. [6] She arrived back in Sydney on 6 October. On 22 December, Isabella left Port Jackson bound for Guam in ballast. [7]

Fate

While sailing to Guam, Isabella was wrecked on a reef in the Caroline Islands on 30 January 1841. The crew reached Manila safely after twenty-seven days in the boats. [8]

Citations and references

Citations

  1. ↑ Weatherill (1908), p.147.
  2. ↑ Register of Shipping (1827), supplemental pages.
  3. ↑ Lloyds Register (1840), Seq.№I172.
  4. ↑ Bateson (1959), pp.306-7.
  5. ↑ Bateson (1959), p.337.
  6. ↑ "Shipping Intelligence". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 29 August 1840, p.2. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Shipping Intelligence". The Sydney Herald, Wednesday 23 December 1840, p.2. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Shipwreck - Loss of Isabella". The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser, Friday 11 June 1841, p.2. Retrieved 2 February 2016.

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