The journey of The INDIA (barque) |
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During the voyage The Rajasthan spoke with the 'India' at latitude 2degrees north, longitude 24degrees west. All well. The following was published in the South Australian Register, February 1840. February 23 - The barque INDIA, 493 tons, Hugh Campbell, commander, from Greenock, having left on 5 October, by way of Cork and Porto Prio, with a cargo of sundries. Passengers to Adelaide -- Mr and Mrs Murray and two children, Miss Murray, Mr and Mrs Craig and family, and thirteen in the steerage. For FULL LIST of those who disembarked at Adelaide - CLICK HERE Passengers for Port Phillip and Sydney---Rev Mr Love, his lady and family, Mr and Mrs Gardner, Mr and Mrs Scott and family, Mr and Mrs Mackay and family, Mr and Mrs Scott, Misses Stewart, Julia Campbell, Flora Campbell, Messrs Robert Neill, James Campbell, Godfrey McNeill, N Hill, John Crowe, E. and O. Oliphant, A S Robertson, William McCarthur, Joseph Gillespie, Robert Fitzgerald, Colin Campbell, William Lochhead, J C Gilmore, Thomas Annersley, Thomas Darchy, John Dickson, Robert Wigmore, George and Robert Bell, and a number in the steerage. |
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STORES 120 Gallons Brandy 50 Gallons Gin 40 Gallons Whiskey 80 Gallons Rum 6 Quarter Casks Wine 8 Tobacco |
IMPORTS 56 Boxes and casks of sundries 3 Bales Merchandise 24 Wheels 11 Cases Sundries 6 Cases & 1 packet of sundries 2 Cases 2 Carts 23 Cases & 1 cask sundries 2 Bales & 2 Boxes merchandise 4 Trunks merchandise 25 Firkins 8 Boxes Sundries |
2 Bales 7 Pipes Sundries 3 Crates Sundries 200 Deals 4 Boxes Pipes 20 Pots Earthenware 45 Casks Provisions 150 Bags Salt 50 Firkins Butter 60 Bundles Iron 1 Pkg chairs 8 Pkgs ironmongery 1 Cask Whiskey |
3 Half puns hams 72 Pkgs sundries 1 Pun ham 1 Pun Ham 30 Boxes Raisins 2 Quarter casks wine 22 Casks wine 50 Boxes dried herrings 50 Boxes hams 2 Casks salmon 34 Sundries 74 Pkgs sundries 1 Box merchandise |
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The INDIA's agents in Port Adelaide, Murray, Greig, and Co. placed the following two advertisements in the South Australian Register on 28 February 1840.
Ex INDIA - On sale by the undersigned- Several trunks of very superior ladies and gentlemen's boots and shoes, 25 crates and 3 pipes of superior china and earthenware, a choice assortment of summer clothing, blue jackets and trowsers, &c., a large and splendid variety of silk, satin, and wrought goods of every description and newest fashions, which will be particularised in future advertisements; also bales of bleached canvas, linen and cotton tick, white duck, dowlas, diapers, twilled linen sheeting, brown linen boiland, fancy prints, striped and checked ginghams, & c., an invoice of toys, stationery, consisting of wrapping paper, writing paper, memorandum and other books. 200 Gross of tobacco pipes. - Murray, Greig, and Co. On sale by the undersigned - a large quantity of batten deals and battens, cut and uncut; new catineal, Lochfine herrings, Cork and Hamburg butter, split peas, pot barley, Westphalia hams, beef in tierces, pork in barrels, patent salt, gunpowder, fine Manilla sugar, rum, Oeneva, negrohead tobacco, champagne, sherry in wood and bottle, bottled stout, Manilla cigars, ship's bread, a copper boiler and furnace; also two rams and two ewes in lamb of the Leicester breed. - Murray, Greig, and Co. |
| An Irish Immigrant, Robert Bell, travelling in the intermediate cabin kept a journal of the voyage. The precis has by necessity included only general facts of the voyage and details of a few highlights and events experienced. The full journal is very well written and contains details of daily life on board the ship. JOURNAL OF ROBERT BELL |
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INDIA - Lost at Sea 1841 The barque INDIA sailed from Greenock Scotland on June 4th 1841 carrying 193 bounty immigrants and crew bound for the Australian colony of Port Phillip. On the 19th July, six weeks into the voyage and being some 200 miles from land and 1200 miles from Rio de Janeiro, the ship caught fire and sank. 17 Souls perished in the disaster with the remainder being rescued by the crew of the ROLAND - a French whaling vessel. The survivors were conveyed to Rio de Janeiro where the British Government hired another ship the GRINDLAY to transport them to Port Phillip where they arrived on October 22, some four and a half months after leaving Scotland. Newspaper reports of the day provided a graphic description of the tragedy and the miraculous rescue of almost all those on board the INDIA. |
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