Catharina (ship)

The Catharina was a barque, built 1810 in Kiel, and weighing 350 tons.

Captains

Peter Schacht

Voyages

• Hamburg to Port Adelaide, South Australia - 21 September 1838 to 20 January 1839
  • Onboard were a group of Lutheran dissidents, 'Kavel's People', including Johann Friedrich Krummnow, which wanted to form a community in Australia.^[1] En route Krummnow taught the girls but was deemed "not completely satisfactory and the community did not allow him to teach in Australia".^[1]
• Port Adelaide, South Australia to Batavia - departed 27 February 1839

References

• "Ships arriving in South Australia 1838", Pioneers Association of South Australia
• "Shipping Arrivals", South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Inc
• "Catharina", Private homepage of Graeme Moad
• "Captain Dirk Hahn and the "Hahndorf" passengers to South Australia", German Australia, David Nutting
• "Catharina 1839", Private webpages of DIANE CUMMINGS