Phoenician, Immigrant Voyage to New South Wales 1849

The Voyage of the Immigrant ship Phoenician to New South Wales in 1849

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) of Saturday the 21st of July 1849, Page 2
ARRIVALS.
JULY 21. - Phoenician, barque, 478tons, Captain Sproat, from London, having left the Downs on the 20th April.

Passengers - Mr. D. Graham, Mr. Hector, Mr. Johnson, Miss Cooper, Monsieur and Madame de Milhau, Monsieur Chauffert, Monsieur Bordier, two Misses Adcock, Mr. and Mrs. Thorn-thwaite and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Hampton, Mr. J. H. Talum, Mr. T. Gilbert, Mr. S. Graham, Mr. D. Skinner, Mr. J. Brook, Mr. and Mrs. E. Parish, Mr. and Mrs. D. Davis and two children, Mrs. Madgwick and two children, Mrs. Davis, and Mr. J. Fane.

AUCKLAND . The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List (NSW : 1844 - 1860) of Saturday the 21st of July 1849, Page 189.
.... The Phoenician has made a remarkably quick passage of ninety-one days from the Downs - and, but from meeting with adverse winds along the coast, would have done it at least in eighty-five. She has spoken no vessels connected with these colonies. One of of her cabin passengers, Mr. E. Hall, died of consumption on the 24th April.

The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) of Wednesday the 25th of July 1849, Page 2.
SHOCKING CARELESSNESS. - We understand that during the voyage of the Phoenician to Sydney, some lucifer matches ignited and set fire to a mail bag, and destroyed a number of letters, and materially injured a number of others, which were put into fresh envelopes and re-directed by the Post Office authorities. The number destroyed we have not heard, but it is rumoured there were upwards of a hundred. There ought to be an official enquiry into the circumstances of a case of so much importance to the public. Of course every person who does not receive all the letters he expects, will imagine that they were destroyed in the Phoenician.

Sources

• The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) of Saturday 21 July 1849, Page 2 - SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE : [1]
• The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List (NSW : 1844 - 1860) of Saturday 21 July 1849; Page 188 - ARRIVALS : [2]
• The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List (NSW : 1844 - 1860) of Saturday 21 July 1849; Page 189 - AUCKLAND : [3]
• The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) of Wednesday 25 July 1849; Page 2: [4]
• Phoenician website: http://www.aberdeenships.com/single.asp?index=99354
• PHOENICIAN from the Mariners and ships in Australian Waters. first accessed online on the 15th of September, 2020 at: http://marinersandships.com.au/1849/07/252pho.htm