Artemisia

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]

Name	Artemisia
Type	Barquentine
Built	Sunderland, Durham, England
Launched	1847
Registered Tonnage	492 tons (old measurement) / 558 tons (new measurement)
Owners	Anthony Ridley

Artemesia was built in Sunderland, launched in 1847. Her maiden voyage was carrying emigrants to Moreton Bay, New South Wales (now in Queensland, Australia). On her return voyage, she carried a load of wool.

Artemisia had a barquentine rig, so the image in the Illustrated London News is incorrect, since it shows the mainmast as being square-rigged rather than gaff-rigged.

The last time that Artemisia appeared in Lloyd's Register of Shipping was 1854. No ship with the same tonnage, year of launch, or place of launch appears in the 1855 edition, so she may have been lost. (Or broken up, although she was listed as "A1" in the 1854 edition, so that doesn't seem likely.)

Sources

• Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping: From 1st July, 1854 to 30th June 1855. Lincoln's Inn Fields: J.H. Cox (Brothers), & Wyman (1854).
• The Ships List: ARTEMISIA London to Australia 1848
• Wikipedia: Artemisia (ship)

Sources

• Artemisia (ship) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_%28ship%29

• NRS5316/4_4786/Artemisia_13 Dec 1848/ from the Assisted Immigrants (digital) Shipping Lists on the New South Wales State Archives and Records website at: http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.aspx?series=NRS5316&item=4_4786&ship=Artemisia

• ARTEMISIA London to Australia 1848 from The Ships List website at: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/artemisia.shtml

• Photograph - Emigrant ship Artemisia, first direct sailing from England to Moreton bay, Queensland in 1848 - sketch from the Illustrated London News, 12 August 1848, page 96. On the Libraries Tasmania website at: https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/tas/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fARCHIVES_DIGITISED$002f0$002fARCHIVES_DIG_DIX:PH30-1-2271/one

• Handcoloured engraving depicting the emigrant ship ARTEMISIA. On the Australian National Maritime Museum at: http://collections.anmm.gov.au/objects/47619

• Artemisia from the Passengers in History website, an initiative of the South Australian Maritime Museum. first accessed online on the 15th of February, 2020 at: http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/node/1004306