Greeting Listers, including Rowena who asks: Lord Ashburton, with Captain Forrest, departed Liverpool January 20 1850, put into Cape Town, lost her fore topgallant mast off the Cape, left there April 24, 1850 arriving Port Adelaide June 8, 1850. The arrival of this vessel at Port Adelaide was reported in the SA Register Newspaper of June 10th 1850 This can be viewed on the TROVE website: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/3931963?zoomLevel=6 To Captain Forrest, Barque "Lord Ashburton." DEAR SIR — We, the undersigned passengers, in the ship Lord Ashburton, from Liverpool to Adelaide and Port Phillip, do desire to express in the strongest terms our deep and truly grateful sense of the steady, upright, and consistent conduct you and the other officers, in every way, and on many trying occasions, evinced during our late voyage, which so much tended to secure the general safety and promote the individual comfort of all. In taking leave of you, we each feel that we are bidding farewell to a friend, and we therefore do so with every prayer, and hope that your future career may be marked with the prosperity so highly deserved ; and that when the voyage of life is ended you may find a sure and certain entrance into the safe harbour of eternal rest. We remain, dear Sir, Yours thankfully and truly obliged, Charles Barden, J. Thompson, W. F. Roe, Joseph Richardson, J. J. Burrows, Francis Burroughs, Wm.Doody, Richard Wadeson, C. B. Jones, Joseph Cooke, John Graham, Arthur Evans, M. B. Carew, Thos. Stableford, Benjamin Drury, Wm Brown, H. J. Welsh, John Brown, Thos. Edwards, Walter Jones, James Carroll, John Roberts, John Thomas, Thos. Christian, Loyd Gregory, Edwd. Stock, Thos. Jones, H. Barlow, Robert Dowden, H. Badderley, Arthur Ardagh, T. Heagan, Tobias Robinson, Thos. Jaeger, G. R. Cox, A Fraser, Thos. Tierson, John Hardy, John Sharbles, Wm. Keiley, Wm. Barlow, Edwd. Temperley, R. G. Harris, Wm. Willcock. South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839-1900) Monday 10 June 1850 Page 2. LIST OF VESSELS LYING IN HOBSON'S BAY, AUGUST 4 1850 include Lord Ashburton, from Liverpool via Adelaide with passengers. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 7 August 1850 My folders do not include a copy of the ship manifest for this ship. However it is possibly that SA State Library or State Archives might have more information. Cheers from Di Cummings of Melbourne http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/BoundforSouthAustralia.htm