G'day, In answer to the plea of our list owner I am goaded into repeating this post regarding the ship that brought my GGGrandfather, William CALDER from Kirkintilloch to Australia. I do not know if there were others from Kirkintilloch or elsewhere in Dunbartonshire but the ship did sail from Glasgow and carried 273 passengers who I would guess were predominantly Scots. In my earlier post I had not discovered the fate of the vessel after the voyage. I have now solved that mystery and can say that this ship made a one way voyage with immigrants to Australia. I have now finished copying the text of an account of the voyage of the ship "Sir William Molesworth" from Glasgow to Melbourne - 13 Oct 1852 to 14 Mar 1853. which is a most interesting insight into life aboard such a ship in those days. The interesting thing about this ship is that it was "owned" by the passengers who I had originally believed had called themselves collectively the "Christian and Temperance Emigration Society of Scotland" The author of the account actually says"- "Perhaps I should have stated before now that the vessel belonged to the passengers who designated themselves the "Christian Temperance Emigration Association", and the management of affairs was conducted by a Committee out of their own number." Whether this practice of the passengers owning the ship occurred on other occasions is not known. In "Shipping Arrivals and Departures - Victorian Ports - Vol 2" by M A Syme, ISBN 0909434 32 8, she is noted as still being in Hobsons Bay on 02 October 1853, seven months after her arrival. In Lloyds Register of Shipping for 1854 she is still listed but she no longer has a port of registry. The following year the name does not appear. According to "Wrecks of Port Phillip" by Peter J, Williams and Roderick Serle, Maritime Historical Productions, Melbourne 1964, the ship was sold after arrival in Australia to Mr. A. W. Hill and H. A. Coffey, and soon after leased to a firm who carried on a ship repair and chandlers business at Williamstown. Some time in the 1860's she was hulked, and in 1870 a half interest was sold to Captain James Deane and two others who used the vessel as a coal hulk. It was while serving in this capacity that she caught fire at Williamstown on 8th October 1871 and was totally destroyed. Having now converted the diary into a Word document I will be happy to share with those interested. If any of you have ancestors who came to Australia on the ship. The passenger list is available on the Victorian PRO "Immigration to Victoria - British Ports 1852 - 1869 - Inward Passenger Lists" site) you will find it most interesting. http://www.cohsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/db/ship2.pl The following names occur in the Diary:- Allen, Brown, Craig, Crum, Cunningham, Currie, Daniel, Dodds, Gale, Glass, Glassford, Gordon, Graham, Innes, James, Jamieson, Johnstone, Jordan, Keith, Kennedy, Kerr, Kerr Johnstone, Lawson, Leckie, Low, Marshall, Martin, Martindale, Marton, Mathieson, McBain, McCallum, McCrae, McGavin, McKennory, McKenzie, McLennan, McNab, McPherson, McVicar, Miller, Millie, Moore, Morris, Morton, Mudie, Murray, Robertson, Sair, Scott, Service, Sinclair, Spedding, Stewart, Strachan, Sutherland, Valentine, Wallace, Watt, Wilson, Wylie, Young.