(A major ship owner whose ships carried convicts, emigrants and cargoes,
to Australia and New Zealand from the 1830s
to his death in 1862. Below
only the ships for which images have been
found.)
BUSSORAH MERCHANT - w3s 530t 1818 Calcutta
(Made three voyages as a covict transport -
two to NSW (1828 &1831) and one to Van Diemans Land.
Brought emigrants to Melbourne in 1850)
Photograph (ca.1880)
State Library of South Australia (Image No. B25221)
WATERLOO
- w3s 898t 1848 Sunderland
From oil painting by D. Macfarlane
National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, UK (BHC3712
VIMEIRA - w3s 925t 1851 Sunderland
(see also Devitt & Moore - DM)
Basil Lubbocks "Last of the Windjammers", Vol II
NORTHFLEET - w3s 986t 1853 London
Watercolour by Jack Spurling
“SAIL:
The Romance of the Clipper Ships”, Vol. III,
pictured by J. Spurling, storied by Basil Lubbock
DUNBAR
- w3s 1,321t 1853 Sunderland
From a colour lithograph by T.G.
Dutton / David R. MacGregor's "Merchant Saililing Ships 1850-1875"
LA HOGUE - w3s 1,331t 1855 Sunderland (see also Devitt & Moore -DM)
Watercolour by Jack Spurling
“SAIL: The Romance of the Clipper Ships”, Vol. I,
pictured by
J. Spurling, storied by Basil Lubbock
COSPATRICK - w3s 1,119tt 1856 Moulmein
Watercolour by Jack Spurling
“Sail, The
Romance of the Clipper Ships”, Vol. I,
pictured by J. Spurling, storied by Basil Lubbock
DUNCAN
DUNBAR - w3s 1374t 1857
Watercolour by unidentified artist
Frank C Bowen's "The Golden Age of Sail"
ALUMBAGH - w3s 1,138t 1863 Blackwall
State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/186)
Vessels which were owned byDuncan Dunbar for which images have not been found or not included above are:-
1. BLENHEIM - w3s 808t 1845 South Shields;
2. LADY MACDONALD - w3s 678t 1847 Moulmein;
3. CANTERBURY - w3s 789t 1850 Sunderland;
4. ALBUERA - w3s 852t 1854 Moumein.
Ship details from Basil Lubbock’s “The Blackwall
Frigates”, Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow,
Reprint 1973, & Charles Bateson's "The Convict Ships1787- 1868", AH & AW Reed Pty Ltd,
Sydney 1959