Isabella (1823 ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name: Isabella
Launched: 1823, Redbridge
General characteristics
Type: Brig
Tons burthen: 179 ton (bm)
Propulsion: Sail

The Isabella was a 179-ton merchant ship built in Redbridge, England in 1823. She made one voyage transporting convicts from Mauritius to Australia.

Career

Isabella, under the command of George Maughan, with a general cargo left Cowes, Isle of Wight on 21 February 1833 and arrived at Cockburn Sound, Western Australia on 24 July 1833.[1]

She left Mauritius on 25 February 1837 with two military convicts and cargo. She sailed via Hobart Town on 22 April arriving at Sydney on 6 May. No convicts died on the voyage.[2]

Isabella sailed from Sydney for London, under the command of Captain Ryan, on 6 March 1838, with passengers and cargo.[3] She was boarded by a Spanish flag privateer on the 4 July and arrived at Torbay.[4]

She is last listed in Lloyds Register in 1856.

Citations

  1. ↑ "Shipping Intelligence". The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, Saturday 27 July 1833, p.118. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Shipping Intelligence". The Sydney Monitor, Monday 8 May 1837, p.2. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Shipping Intelligence". The Colonist (Sydney), Saturday 10 March 1838, p.2. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Ship News". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Thursday 22 November 1838, p.2. Retrieved 2 February 2016.

References

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