| 13 Apr 1844 |
Arrivals at Sydney - 1841 |
| 20 Apr 1844 |
Captain Weddell |
| 27 Apr 1844 |
Departures from Sydnry - 1843 |
| 04 May 1844 |
American Whalers |
| 11 May 1844 |
Report on the Caroline Isles and the Island of Ascencion |
| 18 May 1844 |
Marine Insurance |
| 18 May 1844 |
Sydney - Arrivals - Jan - Mar 1844 |
| 25 May 1844 |
Ships in Harbour |
| 01 Jun 1844 |
Sydney: Arrivals and Departures ; Imports and Exports ; reports of ships (with Sydney connections) sighted by ships arriving at Sydney ; extracts from newspapers received from other ports provided by visiting merchant ships. |
| 08 Jun 1844 |
Nautical Surveys |
| 08 Jun 1844 |
Speed of Steamers |
| 15 Jun 1844 |
Meteorology - weather at Sydney |
| 20 Jul 1844 |
Muscular Power of Seamen |
| 10 Aug 1844 |
Portland Bay - Whaling Report
Conflict between the French and natives of Tahiti |
| 17 Aug 1844 |
Arrival of Post Office packets ; Reefs in the China Sea ; Commital for assault on the high seas. |
| 31 Aug 1844 |
Emigration to New South Wales |
| 11 Jan 1845 |
Wharfage Rates Act NSW |
| 18 Jan 1845 |
Commercial Intelligence - regarding prices of commodities etc |
| 01 Feb 1845 |
Perils of Guano Trade |
| 08 Feb 1845 |
Notice to Mariners |
| 08 Mar 1845 |
The trade in ice from the East Coast ports of North America |
| 03 May 1845 |
Report from Marquesas |
| 03 May 1845 |
Flinder's Island |
| 03 May 1845 |
Port Macquarie |
| 17 May 1845 |
The Society Islands |
| 21 Jun 1845 |
New Merchant Seamen's Act |
| 21 Jun 1845 |
Smoking ships - ie fumigation |
| 04 Oct 1845 |
NZ War news |
| 08 Nov 1845 |
Chronometers - Improvements |
| 29 Nov 1845 |
Hemp & Chain Cables |
| 10 Jan 1846 |
Exams for Masters & Mates - Merchant Service |
| 02 May 1846 |
Merchant Seamen - Stats - Port Jackson |
| 30 May 1846 |
Henry Hovenden - Destitute Sailor |
| 11 Jul 1846 |
Merchant Seamen's Act - Crimps |
| 06 Nov 1847 |
Act - Steam Navigation Regulation Act |
| 27 Dec 1847 |
Act - "Crimping" Merchant Seamen Entering onboard Merchant Vessels |
| 18 Mar 1848 |
Gas Lit Lighthouse - Hartlepool |
| 01 Apr 1848 |
Court - Seaman James Early |
| 20 May 1848 |
UK - Telegraph introduced nationwide |
| 04 Nov 1848 |
Steamer's Lights |
| 06 Jan 1849 |
Gold Fever - California Gold Fields - San Francisco Gold Mines - Voyage to California |
| 11 Aug 1849 |
SF Gold Rush - crews desert |
| 10 Sep 1849 |
Notes on California Gold Rush |
| 20 Oct 1849 |
Wreck "Sultana" |
| 10 Nov 1849 |
Passengers Lists incorrect |
| 15 Dec 1849 |
Merchant Seaman's Act amended |
| 05 Jan 1850 |
3 years in the RN a qualification to be called British |
| 05 Jan 1850 |
Navigation Laws |
| 05 Jan 1850 |
Passenger Lists open to the public to prevent debtors leaving the colony clandestinely for California |
| 09 Feb 1850 |
Northern Whale Fishery, Davis Straits |
| 23 Feb 1850 |
Lights - Steam vessels |
| 16 Mar 1850 |
Biscuits made my Machinery |
| 16 Mar 1850 |
Passengers' Act |
| 15 Jun 1850 |
Pilots - candidates required |
| 13 Jul 1850 |
Pilots & Steam Vessels - legislation |
| 13 Jul 1850 |
Emigrant Ships - Motion in the House of Lords for breaches of the Passengers' Act |
| 03 Aug 1850 |
Pilot appointed for Port Jackson |
| 17 Aug 1850 |
Great Circle Sailing |
| 17 Aug 1850 |
R Nile - Dam |
| 12 Oct 1850 |
Merchant Seamen Discharge register |
| 26 Oct 1850 |
Gutta Pertsha Works |
| 01 Mar 1851 |
New Act regarding the carriage of boats by steam vessels introduced |
| 01 Mar 1851 |
Trade in the Indian Ocean and China - going prepared for pirates etc |
| 01 Mar 1851 |
Collision statistics |
| 08 Mar 1851 |
Telegraph - wire twixt Dover & Cape Grinez broken |
| 08 Mar 1851 |
Marcantile Marine Act |
| 05 Apr 1851 |
Court - Gross case of Crimping |
| 05 Apr 1851 |
Reefing Topsails from the Deck |
| 26 May 1851 |
Anti-transportation Australasian League |
| 28 Jun 1851 |
The Mercantile Marine Act |
| 19 Jul 1851 |
Notice to Mariners - Lights |
| 19 Jul 1851 |
Mercantile Marine Act 1850 |
| 09 Aug 1851 |
Pilotage |
| 09 Aug 1851 |
RN Seamen from RN ships supplied to Merchant Navy vessels |
| 23 Aug 1851 |
Loss of Mississippi Steamer |
| 01 Nov 1851 |
Passenger's Act |
| 01 Nov 1851 |
NSW Mercantile Marine Bill |
| 15 Nov 1851 |
Great Circle Sailing - made easy |
| 22 Nov 1851 |
Results of Master Mariners exam |
| 03 Jan 1852 |
British Shipping in China |
| 03 Jan 1852 |
Disinfecting Ships (Smoking Ships) |
| 03 Jan 1852 |
Disinfecting Ships (Smoking Ships) |
| 10 Jan 1852 |
Surgeon Superintendent Dr H Morris RN |
| 17 Jan 1852 |
Gold fever - difficulty in making up crews |
| 17 Jan 1852 |
Melbourne - shortage of seamen |
| 17 Jan 1852 |
Notice to Mariners |
| 17 Jan 1852 |
Conduct of Crews in Port Jackson |
| 17 Jan 1852 |
Gold fever - difficulty in making up crews |
| 13 Mar 1852 |
River Hooghly - Pilotage |
| 13 Mar 1852 |
Search for Dr Leichhardt |
| 24 Apr 1852 |
Tenders invited for vessel to act as a Prison Hulk |
| 24 Apr 1852 |
Appointment of Harbour Master Moreton Bay |
| 01 May 1852 |
RN New Naval Signal Lights - Thomson's Coloured Signal Lights |
| 22 May 1852 |
Commercial Intelligence - re affects gold rush is having on commodities etc |
| 29 May 1852 |
Overloading of Vessels |
| 05 Jun 1852 |
London Shipowners not prepared to send vessels to Oz ports where crews were likely to desert to the gold fields - large quantities of goods piling up to be shipped |
| 05 Jun 1852 |
RN Putrid meat |
| 05 Jun 1852 |
Eurasian Immigration |
| 12 Jun 1852 |
Accidents at Sea |
| 12 Jun 1852 |
Accident at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich |
| 12 Jun 1852 |
Floating Caisson at Plymouth Dockyard |
| 19 Jun 1852 |
New Australian Propellor - Bomereng |
| 26 Jun 1852 |
Court - safe and appropriate stowage of cargo |
| 26 Jun 1852 |
Breakwater for Rushcutter's Bay ? |
| 31 Jul 1852 |
NSW Government Leases/Purchases barque President as Prison hulks |
| 07 Aug 1852 |
Desertion of Merchant Sailors in Australian Ports - House of Commons |
| 07 Aug 1852 |
RN Salvage Claims |
| 14 Aug 1852 |
Loss "Mary" Brig |
| 21 Aug 1852 |
Pilotage Appointments |
| 21 Aug 1852 |
NSW Statistical Returns |
| 21 Aug 1852 |
Further inquiries into the death of Mr B Boyd and his doubtful banking activities |
| 31 Aug 1852 |
Electro-Magnetic Machine |
| 31 Aug 1852 |
Preserved Meats |
| 31 Aug 1852 |
Shortage of coal at Newcastle, Oz |
| 18 Sep 1852 |
Report on Loss of the SS "City of Melbourne" 6 Aug 1852 |
| 18 Sep 1852 |
Ericsson's Caloric Ship |
| 02 Oct 1852 |
Stats - Population for Sydney & NSW |
| 25 Oct 1852 |
Loss of 15 schooners and 22 pilots near Magdalen Islands [where are they] |
| 25 Oct 1852 |
Breach of the Crimping Act |
| 13 Nov 1852 |
Convict Prevention Bill - Victoria |
| 20 Nov 1852 |
Problems for ships and crews arriving in the Port of London due to gold onboard and sailors receiving high wages etc |
| 11 Dec 1852 |
Re: The Late Mr Boyd |
| 08 Jan 1853 |
Emigration Act requires emigration ships to carry a fire engine |
| 15 Jan 1853 |
Passenger's Act - reminder |
| 29 Jan 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 28 Dec 1852 - 26 Jan 1853 |
| 14 Feb 1853 |
Carriage of Passengers by Sea Act |
| 05 Mar 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures & Arrivals 29 Jan - 4 Mar 1853 |
| 05 Mar 1853 |
Arrival & Departures & Arrivals 29 Jan - 4 Mar 1853 |
| 02 Apr 1853 |
Steam Navigation Act 1852 |
| 02 Apr 1853 |
Loss "Berenice" - Shocking murders on board in the Far East |
| 09 Apr 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures 4 - 31 Mar 1853 |
| 07 May 1853 |
The Ericsson Propeller |
| 14 May 1853 |
Coal for Australia from Pennsylvania |
| 14 May 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures 1 Apr - 11 May 1853 |
| 04 Jun 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 11 - 30 May 1853 |
| 13 Jun 1853 |
Ericsson trials continue |
| 16 Jul 1853 |
Merchant Seamen - Effects |
| 23 Jul 1853 |
Ruined planters from Jamaica emigrating to Australia |
| 30 Jul 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures from Sydney 30 May - 27 Jul 1853 |
| 13 Aug 1853 |
Arrivals and Departures Sydney 28 Jul - 8 Aug 1853 |
| 05 Sep 1853 |
Submarine telegraph laid from Dover to Ostend (6 May) |
| 19 Sep 1853 |
Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, 8 Aug - 16 Sep 1853 |
| 10 Oct 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 16 Sep - 8 Oct 1853 |
| 24 Oct 1853 |
Letter drawing attention to the quality of masters of colonial vessels |
| 07 Nov 1853 |
Sydney Dry Dock borings |
| 28 Nov 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures 7 Oct - 25 Nov 1853 |
| 05 Dec 1853 |
Sydney Dry Dock |
| 19 Dec 1853 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 25 Nov - 6 Dec 1853 |
| 16 Jan 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 25 Nov - 31 Dec 1853 |
| 30 Jan 1854 |
Gold rush hoax - Chile |
| 30 Jan 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures, Sydney, 9 - 24 Jan 1854 |
| 06 Feb 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures, Sydney, 24 Jan - 1 Feb 1854 |
| 20 Mar 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 24 Jan - 19 Mar 1854 |
| 08 May 1854 |
Greatest losses announced by Lloyds for sixteen years |
| 08 May 1854 |
Salvage - doubtful award by Vic-Admiralty Court at Calcutta |
| 05 Jun 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 20 Mar - 24 May 1854 |
| 03 Jul 1854 |
Consolidation of Mercantile Laws - UK Parliament |
| 10 Jul 1854 |
War Freight at Cardiff - freight rates double to 50 shillings a ton and vessels for the Levant are armed against Greek pirates - Newport and Cardiff are crowded with colliers |
| 10 Jul 1854 |
Coaling Depot established at the Falkland Islands |
| 17 Jul 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 24 May - 12 Jul 1854 |
| 24 Jul 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 13 - 19 Jul 1854 |
| 28 Aug 1854 |
Ericsson's Caloric Ship |
| 28 Aug 1854 |
Advice to emigrants to New York - no work |
| 28 Aug 1854 |
Letter re steamers ignoring requests for assistance |
| 11 Sep 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 10 Jul - 1 Sep 1854 |
| 18 Sep 1854 |
Notice to Owners of Steam vessels propelled by High Pressure Engines - survey |
| 09 Oct 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 1 - 21 Sep 1854 |
| 16 Oct 1854 |
Captain Weeks and his self-reefing Topsails |
| 16 Oct 1854 |
Electronic Telegraph extended to Somerset House |
| 06 Nov 1854 |
Electric Telegraph being built between Melbourne and Geelong and also between Geelong and the Heads |
| 06 Nov 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 22 Sep - 2 Nov 1854 |
| 20 Nov 1854 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 2 - 19 Nov 1854 |
| 18 Dec 1854 |
Electric Telegraph open to Geelong |
| 01 Jan 1855 |
Arrivals & Departures 20 Nov - 30 Dec 1854 |
| 08 Jan 1855 |
P&O service to China, for the present, discontinued |
| 08 Jan 1855 |
Dry Dock at Waterview Bay completed |
| 08 Jan 1855 |
Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1853 |
| 15 Jan 1855 |
Dry Dock - more |
| 29 Jan 1855 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 30 Dec 54 - 25 Jan 1855 |
| 29 Jan 1855 |
Quarantine Regulations |
| 12 Feb 1855 |
Problems of making up crews now much improved |
| 02 Apr 1855 |
Arrivals & Departures Sidney 22 Feb - 1 Apr 1855 |
| 09 Apr 1855 |
All steam vessels to Australia would appear to have been taken up by the government for use in supplying the Crimea etc This is not the first item which refers to the lack of steam vessels on this run |
| 23 Apr 1855 |
Chinese Emigration attracts attention |
| 23 Apr 1855 |
Pirates still at work around Hong Kong |
| 14 May 1855 |
Board of Trade introduces new legislation regarding the requirement to carry a pilot in UK waters - 1 May 1855 |
| 14 May 1855 |
The Admiralty have taken up two ships to convey 1009 tons of wooden huts to Heligoland, on the coast of Denmark, where a British encampment is to be formed. |
| 14 May 1855 |
Frederick Charles Maturin (UK) defrauds prospective emigrants for Australia |
| 28 May 1855 |
Williamstown - Firing upon sailors (deserters?) in the bay |
| 28 May 1855 |
Death reported of 92 year old ship builder Orlando B Merrill who bult the US Ship Pickering in 1789 and USN Sloop Wasp in 1813 |
| 04 Jun 1855 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 18 Apr - 1 Jun 1855 |
| 11 Jun 1855 |
How ships are lost in a Storm - pumps not fit for the purpose supplied |
| 25 Jun 1855 |
Attempt to prevent the operation of vessels on a Sunday by the Water Police |
| 25 Jun 1855 |
The Spiral Propeller |
| 09 Jul 1855 |
Following discussions, regular sailings introduced by the Black Ball Line and White Star to Australia and return |
| 09 Jul 1855 |
Review of number of vessels operating between Liverpool and Australia - numbers of passengers reduced since 1853, following the abatement of gold fever |
| 09 Jul 1855 |
Emigration from Liverpool for Quarter ended 31 Mar 55 |
| 09 Jul 1855 |
Presented to Captain Ingraham, of the USN by some thousands of the British working classes, for his noble conduct in rescuing Koaxta {Martin Coexta} , the Hungarian refugee, from the Austrian authorities, Aptril, 1854". Alta California, Apr 12 |
| 16 Jul 1855 |
Electronic telegraph between Melbourne and Port Phillip Heads |
| 23 Jul 1855 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 1 Jun - 15 Jul 1855 |
| 30 Jul 1855 |
Merchant Shipping Act 1854 - to take effect 1 May 1855 - per Liverpool Mail of 21 Apr |
| 30 Jul 1855 |
Salor's Home for Melbourne |
| 06 Aug 1855 |
It is noted in an English Paper that of 38 vessels building on the Clyde 35 are iron ships |
| 06 Aug 1855 |
Statistics for UK merchant fleet as at 31 Dec 1854 |
| 06 Aug 1855 |
Reducation in Government demand for transports for use on the Crimea run, except steam vessels at moderate rates, means that there is a surplus of vessels and freight rates are depressed |
| 13 Aug 1855 |
Absurdities of Quarantine - in the R Thames |
| 13 Aug 1855 |
Fire at Millwall - more - article almost unreadable |
| 13 Aug 1855 |
New Merchant Shipping Act - precis |
| 27 Aug 1855 |
Newcastle receives a new life boat |
| 03 Sep 1855 |
Merchant Seamen's Fund per Morning Chronicle of 15 May following the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act |
| 03 Sep 1855 |
Movements of Australian vessels from Liverpool |
| 03 Sep 1855 |
Registration of Colonial Vessels and the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 |
| 03 Sep 1855 |
Fire at Millwall - letter from Mr Scott Russell explains the actual damage caused - ie the prospective HMS Etna was hopelessly destroyed, whilst the 2 vessels either side were only slightly damaged |
| 03 Sep 1855 |
New Large Landing Stage for Liverpool - 1,000 feet long by 82 ft wide connected to Prince's Pier - European Times of 5 Jun |
| 24 Sep 1855 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 17 Aug - 24 Sep 1855 |
| 24 Sep 1855 |
James Green conned emigrants into parting with passage money, often of all they possessed, but failed to provision the vessel, so that they must have run the risk of starvation had it not been that public sypmathy came to their aid. |
| 01 Oct 1855 |
Attempted escape of convict employed at Gellibrand's Point - but recaptured as soon as his absence was discovered |
| 08 Oct 1855 |
San Francisco Herald reports that some captains destroy letters in their charge and in other cases refuse to deliver them for 2 - 3 weeks so that the information is useless |
| 08 Oct 1855 |
Captain Henderson, RN, later Master Attendant of the The Suez Canal - M. de Lessep's project discussed in US papers - Daily Alta California of 8 Sep |
| 15 Oct 1855 |
More irregularities of the Chinese Coolies Trade - Straits Times 31 Jul |
| 15 Oct 1855 |
Tonnage measurement |
| 15 Oct 1855 |
Colonial Lights ie Lighthouse Tolls |
| 15 Oct 1855 |
New Steam Regulations for Victoria and for vessel under sail- lights and sound signals under various conditions |
| 15 Oct 1855 |
More on the prospective Suez Canal |
| 05 Nov 1855 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 25 Sep - 45 Nov 1855 |
| 05 Nov 1855 |
Kaipara, NZ - interesting historical report on the harbour from 1840 to date by Edward A Peacock - acting pilot for the port |
| 12 Nov 1855 |
Paranoia in UK with regards to Russina privateers ? |
| 19 Nov 1855 |
ASN Co. Steamers to run alongside the Railway Pier at Sandridge to discharge cargo and passengers - thus saving the passengers the need to come ashore via boat from shore |
| 26 Nov 1855 |
Arrivals & Departures Sydney 6 - 19 Nov 1855 |
| 24 Dec 1855 |
Shipping Master, Mr Venour, for Sydney is obliged to retire temporarily from his duties, on leave of absence, in consequence of ill health. |
| 31 Dec 1855 |
Bankrupts - Among the list of bankrupts in the London Gazette of 28 Sep is Charles John Mare, the eminent ship builder of Blackwall |
