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Elizabeth (1816 ship)

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Name
  
Elizabeth

Tons burthen
  
527 (bm)

Launched
  
1816

Builder
  
Calcutta

Propulsion
  
Sail

Elizabeth was a 527-ton merchant ship built at Calcutta, British India in 1816. She made one voyage transporting convicts from Ireland to Australia.

Career

Under the command of Walter Cock and surgeon Joseph Hughes, she left Cork, Ireland on 27 August 1827, with 194 female convicts. She arrived in Sydney on 12 January 1828 and had two convict deaths en route. Elizabeth departed Port Jackson bound for Mauritius.

References

Elizabeth (1816 ship) Wikipedia