Catharina (ship)

The Catharina was a barque, built 1810 in Kiel, and weighing 350 tons.

Captains

Peter Schacht

Voyages

Hamburg to Port Adelaide, South Australia - 21 September 1838 to 20 January 1839
- On board were a group of Lutheran dissidents, 'Kavel's People', including Johann Friedrich Krummnow, which wanted to form a community in Australia.^[1] En route Krummnow taught the girls but was deemed "not completely satisfactory and the community did not allow him to teach in Australia".^[1]
Port Adelaide, South Australia to Batavia - departed 27 February 1839

References

"Ships arriving in South Australia 1838", Pioneers Association of South Australia
"Shipping Arrivals", South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Inc
"Catharina", Private homepage of Graeme Moad
"Captain Dirk Hahn and the "Hahndorf" passengers to South Australia", German Australia, David Nutting
"Catharina 1839", Private webpages of DIANE CUMMINGS

1 2 Nutting, David (2001). "J. F. Krummnow". Teachers on the Web. Retrieved 31 October 2012.

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