Hell Ship : the true story of the plague ship Ticonderoga, one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history

Hell Ship : the true story of the plague ship Ticonderoga, one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history / Michael Veitch.

For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants-mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A bet...

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Main Author: Veitch, Michael, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Crows Nest, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 2018.
Subjects:
Ticonderoga (Clipper ship)
1800-1899
Ocean travel > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > Australia.
Typhus fever.
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Ocean travel
Typhus fever
Australia > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Australia
History
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