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The India
Sailing Ship the INDIA Lost at Sea 1841 Introduction Newspaper reports British Government Dispatches The Immigrants The Ships Encounter with Pirates The first voyage of The India 1840 Etching of The India Came to Port Phillip by 1849 The Grindlay British Consul in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 1789-1868 Robert Hesketh The India Passengers Agnes Robertson Isabella Beaton |
The Roland whaling ship was reported as owned by Havre de Grace which is also the name of the port where it departed.
Whaling in New Zealand 1839-1840 mentions The Roland Emile Joseph Borel crewman on The Roland June 1841-Feb 1842 mentions it sailed from Le Havre in June 1841. The city was founded in 1517, when it was named Franciscopolis after Francis I of France, and subsequently named Le Havre-de-Grâce ("Harbour of Grace") after an existing chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ("our Lady of Grace") French Whalers and Scientists, 1839 and 1840 www.westernbay.govt.nz/Documents/Projects/TePunaCommunityPlan/TEPUNAHISTORY.pdf www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/1845sydneygazette.htm The ship Roland, which left Havre on the 3rd of June, 1841, for the whale fishery, came up in July following with the English ship India, which was on fire. After arduous exertions, 198 persons were saved, and taken on board the Roland, which conveyed them to Rio de Janeiro. All her provisions being exhausted, she was liberally re-supplied by the English Ambassador; but her time lost made a serious difference in her gains for the first season. The English Government, upon a petition from the owner of the Roland, supported by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has remitted to the owner, by way of indemnity, a sum of £1000, and a further sum of £500 to be distributed among the crew of the whaler. - Journal du Havre |
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19th Century Immigration Paintings
Passenger Shipping records for Australia NSW research Links Sandridge Pier and railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrotypes History of Melbourne on the Roosen Family website |
