City of Adelaide - Migrants to Australia .....

[camweh]

This article from the area of my childhood in Scotland should interest Australian family researchers. It relates to the demise of the world's oldest clipper ship, the sailing vessel "Carrick" which was launched in Sunderland UK in 1864 as the "City of Adelaide".

One paragraph states:
The 176ft vessel survived 28 voyages carrying emigrants from Falmouth to Australia over two decades. Australian researchers estimate more than 60% of the population of the nation's southern states can trace their families' arrival in Australia to the ship.

The article is dated today 19th January 2007 and can be found here

[Russell]

Hi Hughie

Thanks for the link.
The Carrick must be part of every Glaswegians memories too. She was always part of the view up the Clyde from the Broomielaw and it was a shock to the system when she went down and was towed away.
I was down in the Maritime Museum a few months ago and to see the hulk rotting on a slipway was very sad.
I suppose we should be grateful that her hull has survived as long as it has. Most of her sister ships ended up as wrecks while on a voyage or hulks rotting on a mudbank somewhere. At least the Carrick had some extra years of dignity.

Russell

[trish1]

Australian researchers estimate more than 60% of the population of the nation's southern states can trace their families' arrival in Australia to the ship.

This may be true if you replace "southern states" by one state - South Australia but seriously doubtful. According to Cindy's list http://www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm pointing to a now defunct website Ship "City of Adelaide" which made 23 voyages from the UK to South Australia

There is no mention in online immigration lists of the ship going to any other "southern" state. Tasmania was mainly settled by convicts, NSW also has a large population descended from same & Victoria and NSW do not have the ship in their online lists. Post WWII immigration also accounts for a goodly percentage of Australian arrivals.

SA contains about 7% of the Australian Population - Stats figures June 2001
NSW 6.61 m
Vic 4.82 m
Qld 3.64 m
WA 1.9 m
SA 1.51m
Total almost 20 million
http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/intro.html

Trish

[isk]

Hi
I know this is a very old post but I was in Adelaide in September 2019 for my niece's wedding and was excited to have a guided tour round 'City of Adelaide'. An amazing amount of work has been done and my sister and I were delighted to visit the ship. Our father was a director of a shipping company in Glasgow and we can well remember the cocktail parties that he and our mother attended aboard her when she was the 'Carrick'.
It is wonderful that Adelaide is bringing the ship back to life. isk