Pribislaw (1847)

Date: 1847 to 8 Feb 1870
Location: Lerwick, Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom

The barque Pribislaw (sometimes also Prebislaw), was built in 1847.

Timepoints

• 3 February 1850: arrival in Melbourne from Hamburg via Rio de Janeiro, cargo for Adelaide^[1]
• 1 March 1850: Adelaide ^{[citation needed]}
• 14 April 1851: departure from Hamburg for New Orleans^[2]
• 6 July 1851: departure from Picayune/New Orleans with 40,000 bricks for Havanna^[3]
• 15 January 1854: arrival in New York from Hamburg^[4]
  • 19 passengers lost during the 86 days of passage, Captain Ross^[5]
• 25 May 1855: arrival in London (?) "from Alicant, with 58 horses and 9 muleteers, on her way to Balaklava" (Crimea) ^[6]
• May 1862: arrival in Liverpool from Hull^[7]
• 11 August 1863: arrival in Hull from Alexandria^[8]
• November 1865: sale of lath wood landed from the ship in Liverpool (from Danzig)^[9]
• 23 November 1869: arrival from Quebec in Shoreham^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ The Argus, Melbourne, 4 February 1850, p. 2 (trove)
2. ↑ Auswanderer aus Anhalt und den preußischen Regierungsbezirken Magdeburg und Merseburg 1850-1852 In: Mitteldeutsche Familienkunde, Band III, Jahrgang 13, Heft 3; Karl Werner Klüber (07.-09. 09. 1972) via Rainer Doerry at Verdener Familienforscher e.V. (https://www.zufallsfunde.net/index.php?id=einzel&ia=30761&ib=17206 : accessed 6 May 2023)
3. ↑ The Times, Picayune, New Orleans, 6 July 1851 (newspapers.com)
4. ↑ "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891", Catalog: Passenger lists of vessels arriving at New York, 1820-1897 ; index to passenger lists of vessels arriving in New York, 1820-1846 Passenger lists 13 Dec 1853-18 Jan 1854 (NARA Series M237, Roll 135); image 604 of 678; citing NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FamilySearch Image: 939V-R74H-8 (accessed 16 February 2023)
5. ↑ Alexandria Gazette, 18 January 1854 (newspapers.com)
6. ↑ The Morning Chronicle (London, Greater London, England), 30 May 1855 (newspapers.com): "Pribilaw, Meclemb. bargue (English transport), arrived on Friday from Alicant, with 58 horses and 9 muleteers, on her way to Balaklava."
7. ↑ Liverpool Mercury, etc., 16 May 1862 (newspapers.com)
8. ↑ The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 13 August 1863, p. 4 (newspapers.com)
9. ↑ The Leeds Mercury, 22 November 1862, p.1 (newspapers.com)
10. ↑ Daily Post, Liverpool, 24 November 1869, p. 10 (newspapers.com)

• Carl Schwabe: Diary (Transcript of portions of the journal kept by Carl Schwabe during a voyage aboard the 'Prebislaw' from Adelaide to Java in 1849 and relating to Adelaide and South Australia) (https://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2173381~S1 : accessed 6 May 2023)
• Robert Wuchatsch: Discovery of Wreckage from Pribislaw, Friends of Westgarthtown inc., Vol. 6 No. 2, September 2002 (https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2816163191/view : accessed 16 February 2023)
• Dirk Weissleder: Der Delfin – Newsletter der Freunde der Pribislaw