DUKE OF YORK 1836

from London with Captain Robert Clarke Morgan.
One source says she left England on February 24th and another says April 5th, 1836
This whaling and trading barque, 189 ton, was under charter to The South Australian Company.

On July 27th 1836 there came into Nepean Bay (Kangaroo Island) a smart looking vessel,
and brought with her the first colonists for South Australia - 42 passengers (38 adults, 4 children).
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about the DUKE OF YORK
the first passenger ship
to arrive in South Australia



Sir George Kingston, in 1877, took a great interest in preserving the names of the early vessels and their passengers,
and to him, we are partly indebted for the following list:


Sir George Kingston took a great interest in preserving the names of the early vessels and their passengers (his list was published in 1877 in the SAR). Passenger and crew details were also extracted from the periodical Newsletter No. 15 "Before the Buffalo", The Story of South Australia 1800-1836 by H.J. Finnis, President, The Pioneers' Association of South Australia 1964. (Published by The Pioneers' Association of South Australia, Murray House, 77 Grenfell St, Adelaide, South Australia).

For a vessel invested with so much historical interest, we who look back to that time
cannot but regret that she closed her career on a treacherous reef in the same year (1836).