The State Library of Victoria holds a watercolour painting of the ship Bussorah Merchant in the La Trobe Picture Collection. You can see an image of it at http://members.iinet.net.au/~dodd/gail/tallships/Bussorah.html The vessel, formerly a convict transport, has the dubious honour of being the first known to use North Head, Sydney, as a quarantine site in August 1828. With smallpox raging through the ship, the Bussorah Merchant landed her passengers and crew on a small beach at North Head, the dramatic and ruggedly beautiful northern promontory at the entry to Sydney Harbour. Migrant Ships for South Australia 1836-1860 by Ronald Parsons: BUSSORAH MERCHANT 530t/659t, 3 mast ship rig, B.1818 Howrah, 117'x31'11"x5'9" tween decks, Duncan Dunbar, London. (Engaged as a convict transport 1828-1831). Arrived 10 November 1848 from London and Plymouth, Capt. Edwards ('Register' 11 November 1848). The Somerset Years - Government Assisted Emigrants ...states that the Bussorah Merchant was built entirely from teak at Calcutta in 1818. "An older vessel than most on the emigrant run, she had carried the first group of government-assisted emigrants to Sydney in 1833. The ship had undergone repairs several times over the years. She was felted and doubled in '33, had repairs to topsides and decks in '46, and was sheathed with yellow metal in '49..." The book details an account of a journey in 1850. Doug