Clipper Ship 'City of Adelaide'

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Several passenger diaries exist in libraries and personal collections across the world.  We are fortunate to have access to some of them. Sections from them are reproduced on this site.

If your ancestor travelled aboard the City of Adelaide and kept a diary that we don't know about, we would love to hear from you.

Diary transcripts we currently have transcribed are:


Also provided is an account of the Nancarrow family's migration.  This depiction also paints a picture of the life of a Cornish family, faced with economic hardship in the UK, migrating to work in the Moonta copper mines in South Australia.

 

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Relatives1585
Register36

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NEW! - We now have over 1,000 crew records on-line.

On 6th August 1864 the brand-new City of Adelaide left the Thames docklands of central London to sail for South Australia with her passengers, 100 tons of coal, 11,300 items of general cargo (bales, cases, casks, packages and bundles) - and a crew of 38 men ... Read more >>