Passenger's Contract Ticket |
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| Title : | Passenger's Contract Ticket |
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| Creator : | Jones, Josephine | ||
| Source : | Jones, Josephine, D 7741(Misc) | ||
| Date of creation : | 1880 | ||
| Format : | Ephemera | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
The ticket issued to Josephine Jones is for travel aboard the Star of India in November 1880. The ticket includes details of the food that will be supplied to passengers and the days on which it will be served. Preserved meat and vegetables are now included in the diet in addition to the salted and dried provisions of emigrant ships of the 1830s and 1840s. The quantity of luggage allowed is also stated as 20 cubic feet. The Star of India was built in Dundee in 1861, a class of boat generally known as Blackwall Frigates, a type of three-masted fully-rigged merchant ship. The name stems from the original ships built at Blackwall on the River Thames, a design that was used by other ship building yards. The Star of India was well known in the Australian passenger trade, and should not be confused with a later vessel of the same name. She was later sold to Norwegian interests and in 1893 was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| Related names : | Jones, Josephine |
| Coverage year : | 1880 |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | South Australia |
| Further reading : | Haines, Robin. Life and death in the age of sail: the passage to Australia Sydney, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales Press, 2003 Charlwood, DE. The long farewell Ringwood, Vic.: Allen Lane, 1981 Hassam, Andrew. Sailing to Australia: shipboard diaries by nineteenth-century British emigrants Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1995 |
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