*new* for TheShipsList website http://www.theshipslist.com/ All the new and updated files and databases have been placed on their own page(s) Find them on the front page in between the big arrows --------------> <--------------- At the bottom of each of these pages I have placed links named " previous month " and " next month " so you are able to navigate back and forth between the monthly *new & updated* pages, as I only keep three months of *new* page links on the Home page. New for September 2008 is . . . o Fleets: o Hunter's River Steam Navigation Co. / Australasian Steam Nav. Co. o Queensland Steam Shipping Co. / Australasian United S.N. Co. Looks like September is Australia month. Two terrific new Fleets o Passengers: o ship Fitzjames, from London & Southampton to Port Adelaide 31st December 1855 o ship Nimroud, from London to Port Adelaide 31st December 1855 o ship Australia, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 22nd January 1856 The first three ships with assisted passengers to South Australia for 1856 . . . before you write to me ..yes, I know the first two are dated 1855, but they are recorded at 1856 in SA State Records. This snippet below is part of an interesting report by Dr. Duncan in SA . . I intend to add an extract from the report to the index page for SA ships >I regret to say that, from inquiries which I have made of the shipping >agents to the steam ships and other vessels at Port Adelaide, it appears >that a considerable proportion of the newly arrived emigrants proceed >immediately to Melbourne ; whether it is that they find difficulty in >procuring employment, whether the report of higher wages combined with the >certainty that if these reports prove incorrect they have still the gold >fields to depend upon, or whether finding in England that they cannot get >a free passage to Victoria, they apply to be sent to South Australia, >knowing that for a small sum they can immediately procure passage to >Melbourne ; whether one or more of these circumstances may be supposed to >have an influence, the fact is undoubted that a certain portion of the >newly arrived immigrants leave immediately on arrival. If anyone is able to furnish corrections or additions (like maiden names) to any of the South Australia Lists, please write to Robert or myself. Also if you know that any family or individual did leave for Victoria after arrival at South Australia then we'd like to know that too, so it can be added as a note to the list. o Arrivals: o Emigrant Ships to Australia 1856-1857 This is carries on after the 1854-1856 "Return of Ships and Emigrants despatched by Public Funds .." o Pictures: o Mongolian 1891, Allan Line o Nestorian 1867, Allan Line o Numidian 1891, Allan Line o Parisian 1881, Allan Line o Pomeranian 1882, Allan Line (ex- Grecian Monarch, Monarch Line) o Sardinian 1874, Allan Line Please share this *new* for TheShipsList website email, with any other list to which you belong if you think it might be of interest or value to those list members (in other words, on-topic). Enjoy ! Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/