Eliza (1815 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Eliza (ship).

History
United Kingdom
Name| Eliza
Owner|

* 1817:Kyd & Co.
* 1829:J. Ward

Builder| Java
Launched| 1815
Fate| Last listed in 1846
General characteristics
Tons burthen| 373,[1] or 391,[2] or 392[3] (bm)
Propulsion| Sail

Eliza was a merchant ship built in Java, Netherlands East Indies, in 1815. She was registered at Calcutta in 1818.[1] She made two voyages transporting convicts from England to Australia. She was last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1848.

## Career

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Under the command of William Doutty and surgeon J. Patterson, she left London, England, on 29 June 1828, and arrived in Sydney on 18 November.[2] She had embarked 158 male convicts and had eight deaths en route.[4] Seven of the eight deaths were due to dysentery. It appeared while Eliza was becalmed for a while in the Doldrums, and disappeared after she left the tropics[5][Note 1] Eliza departed Port Jackson on 19 March 1829 bound for London with produce.[7]

On her second convict voyage Eliza was under the command of William Doutty and surgeon David Thompson. She left London on 7 November 1829, arrived in Hobart Town on 24 February 1830.[8] She had embarked 117 female convicts and had two deaths en route.[9] Eliza departed Hobart Town in June 1830, bound for Singapore.

## Notes, citation, and references

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Notes

1. ^ Bateson reports the death rate as one per every 18.7 convicts embarked;[6] actually, the rate was one per 19.75, or 5 percent.

Citations

1. ^ a b Phipps (1840), p. 185.
2. ^ a b Bateson (1959), pp. 298–9.
3. ^ Register of Shipping (1829), Seq.№252.
4. ^ Bateson (1959), p. 331.
5. ^ Bateson (1959), p. 250.
6. ^ Bateson (1959), p. 253.
7. ^ "Commercial Interests". The Australian (Sydney), Friday 27 March 1829, p.3. 27 March 1829. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
8. ^ Bateson (1959), pp. 310–1.
9. ^ Bateson (1959), p. 332.

References

* Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075.
* Phipps, John (1840). A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... Scott.

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