The schooner Daphne was registered in Melbourne to a South Australian, Thomas Pritchard, who either chartered it to Ross Lewin or entered partnership with him. Lewin arranged the refitting of the ship as a recruiter, and secured a licence to carry 58 labourers into Queensland under that colony’s Polynesian Labourers Act.
The ship left Brisbane in [...]
Filed under: 1868, Daphne, HMS Rosario, John B Thurston, John DAGGET, Palnecaptain George PALMER, Queensland, Slavery | No Comments »
Mariners and ships in Australian Waters
ADVENTURER
�Barque, of Sydney, JOHN DALY, Master, Burthen 305 Tons
from the Port of ROTUMAH to SYDNEY, New South Wales, 21st Sep. 1876
Surname
Given name
Station
Age
Of what Nation
Status
Comments
DALY JOHN
CAPTAIN
CREW
HARRISON
PETER
MATE
33
BRITISH
CREW
WRIGHT
GEORGE
A. B.
25
BRITISH
CREW
DAWSON
DANIEL
A. B.
34
BRITISH
CREW
CRAWFORD
AMOS
A. B.
25
BRITISH
CREW
CRAWFORD
OLIVER
BOATSWAIN
30
BRITISH
CREW
THOMPSON
C. H.
A. B.
26
BRITISH
CREW
MUNDY
JOHN
A. B.
30
SYDNEY
CREW
13 NATIVE
O. S.
ROTUMAH
CREW
EURY
M.
CAPT.
BRITISH
PASSENGER
GRANT
FRED
PASSENGER
Crew of Brig
BLOOMFIELD
GEORGE
PASSENGER
E. K. Bateson
ANDERSON
CHARLES
PASSENGER
wrecked off
BAKER
WILLIAM
PASSENGER
Rotumah
HICKING
A.
PASSENGER
HALL
J.
PASSENGER
McBRIDE
OWEN
PASSENGER
BAYLEY
ED.
PASSENGER
LOWTHER
WILLIAM
BRITISH
PASSENGER
CHAPMAN
J.
MATE
CREW
Dis. Norfolk Is. 9/9/76
BAHN
H,
CREW
Deserted Egg Is.Mar 76
BERNICA
ANGELO
CREW
All jailed in Levuka
NEAGLE
JAMES
CREW
All jailed in Levuka
DALY [...]
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In June 1868, the Tongan Parliament ordered the flag to be hauled down and instructed Ma’afu to cease from involving the Tongan Government in Fijian affairs. This meant that he could not continue to exercise control by virtue of his authority as a Tongan chief, but had to be accepted as a chief in Fiji.
PACNEWS [...]
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