Ocean (1800 ship)

History


Name:	Ocean
Builder:	Rait & Co., Quebec, Canada
Launched:	1800
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	560,^[1] or 564^[2] (bm)
Propulsion:	Sail

Ocean was a 564-ton sailing ship built in Quebec, Canada in 1800.

Convict transport (1815-1816)

Under the command of Alexander Johnson, she sailed from England in August 1815 and arrived at Port Jackson on 20 January 1816.^[1] She transported 220 male convicts, of whom one died on the voyage.^[3]

Ocean left Port Jackson on 17 March bound for Batavia.^[4]

Citations and references

Citations

1 2 Bateson (1959), pp.290-1.
↑ Hackman (2001), p.302.
↑ Bateson (1959), p. 327.
↑ "Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure". Australian Town and Country Journal, Saturday 3 January 1891, p.17. Retrieved 27 January 2013.

References

Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075.
Hackman, Rowan (2001) Ships of the East India Company. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7

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