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The following list of the Ships of Devitt and Moore together with their Captains was adapted from Capt. A.G. Course's book Painted Ports - The story of the ships of Messrs Devitt and Moore, Hollis & Carter, 1961.

ShipCaptainYears
VimieraJ. Green1863-1872
La RogueJohn Williams1863-1865
 William Goddard1865-1874
 D.B. Carvosso1874-1876
 F. Wagstaff1876-1886
City of AdelaideDavid Bruce 1864-1867
 John Bruce1867-1873
 L.W.E. Bowen1873-1875
 Alex. Bruce1875-1876
 E. D. Alston1876-1887
St Dunstan J. Wynn1864-1865
 - Toovey1865-1868
Grasmere T. S. Stockman1865-1881
 J. P. Sharp18811883
Pekina William Orchard1865-1874
 L. W. E. Bowen1875-1876
 William Orchard1876-1878
 B. G. Panton1879-1880
St Vincent Alex. Louttit1865-1873
 W. H. Bisset1873-1875
 J. Barrett1875-1881
 A. J. Ismay1881-1884
 Malcolm Nicholson1884-1887
Paramatta John Williams1886-1873
 J. R. Brown1873-1874
 William Goddard1874-1887
Dunbar Castle J. Swanson1867-1871
 T. F. Rowe1871
 D. B. Carvosso1871-1873
 E. D. Alston1873-1874
 J. R. Brown1875-1879
 A. J. Ismay1879-1881
South AustralianDavid Bruce1868-1873
 John Bruce1873-1875
 W. H. Bisset1875-1876
 Alex. Bruce1876-1877
 John Bruce1877-1881
 J. H. Barrett1881-1887
Hawkesbury Philip Sayers1888-1875
 D. B. Carvosso1876-1881
 W. Osborne1881-1888
Chaa-Sze L. W. E. Bowen1868-1872
S.S. Queen of the Thames G. Macdonald1870-1871
OutalpaH. N. Forbes1871-1872
 J. H. Barrett1872-1875
 T. A. OddI1875-1876
 R. Watts1876-1880
 B. G. Panton1880-1881
Gateside L. W. E. Bowen1872-1873
 Peter Black1873-1874
 E. D. Alston1875-1876
 A. J. Ismay1876-1878
 Charles Maitland1878-1884
John RennieSamuel Nicholson1872-1877
 Malcolm Nicholson1877-1882
 F. Northey1882-1889
 Charles Maitland1889-1890
Collingwood F. H. Calthrop1872-1873
 A. P. C. Ross1873-1874

Peter Black1874-1878
 H. N. Forbes1878-1890
 F. Northey1890-1893
Sobraon J. A. Elmslie1872-1889
Rodney Alex. Louttit1874-1887
 J. H. Barrett1887-1889
 H. N. Forbes1890-1893
 F. Northey(one passage) 1894
 F. W. Corner1895-1896
S.S. GlenelgJohn Bruce1875-1877
 Samuel Nicholson1878-1880
Duke of AtholeJ. R. Brown1880-1888
 Malcolm Nicholson1888-1889
Illawarra D. B. Carvosso1881-1887
 W. W. Smith1887-1888
 D. B. Carvosso1888-1899
 J. H. Barrett1899-1900
 Charles Maitland1900-1907
Simla Malcolm Nicholson1882-1883
Derwent J. R. Andrew1884-1898
 W. W. Smith1898-1899
 D. B. Carvosso(one outward passage) 1900
 - Wetherall(one homeward passage) 1900-1901
 H. N. Forbes1901-1904
Macquarie William Goddard1887-1897
 F. W. Corner1897-1903
 J. B. Rugg1903-1904
Tamar J. R. Brown1889-1894
 W. W. Smith1894-1896
 H. N. Forbes1896-1900
Harbinger D. R. Bolt1890-1893
 F. Northey(one passage) 1893
 H. N. Forbes1893-1896
 F. W. Corner1896-1897
 Charles Maitland1897-1898
Hesperus J. H. Barrett1890-1898
 Charles Maitland1898-1899
lrvine E. C. S. Achard1900-1901
Port Jackson A. S. Cutler(did not sail) 1906
 G. P. Ward1906-1907
 Charles Maitland1907-1916
Medway Robert Jackson1910-1914
 David Williams1915-1918
St GeorgeJ. Hamilton Blair1919-1921
Sunbeam Did not make a voyage 
 

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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 >>