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CHAPMAN 

CHAPMAN WAS A VESSEL OF 793 TONS. SHE ARRIVED IN AUCKLAND ON 5TH JANUARY 1857 WITH CAPTAIN HARLAND IN COMMAND.THIS IS THE VESSEL THAT WAS MOST LIKELY CHARTERED BY SHAW SAVILL & CO AT SOME STAGE, THOU NOT NECESSARILY FOR THIS VOYAGE AS IT WAS TO EARLY FOR SHAW SAVILL & CO TO HAVE CHARTERED HER


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THERE WAS AN EARLIER VESSEL CALLED CHAPMAN ( POSSIBILITY ORIGINAL NAME WAS SYBILLA, BUT RE-NAMED BEFORE SHE WAS LAUNCHED ) A VESSEL OF 400 / 558 BUILT IN 1777 BY THOMAS FISHBURN OF WHITBY TONS WHICH HAD LEFT LONDON ON 3RD DECEMBER 1819 FOR CAPETOWN ARRIVING ON 17TH MARCH 1820.SHE THEN WENT ONTO PORT ELIZABETH ARRIVING 20TH APRIL 1820.CAPTAIN JOHN MILLBANK WAS IN COMMAND.

I THINK THAT THIS WAS THE SAME CHAPMAN THAT WAS USED AS A CONVICT SHIP AND KNOW AS THE 'HELL SHIP '

NO SHAW SAVILL & CO CONNECTION - FOR REFERENCE ONLY.

NOTE THAT THERE WAS ALSO A VESSEL CALLED AF CHAPMAN ( FORMER DUNBOYNE BUILT IN 1888 ) AGAIN NO SHAW SAVILL & CO CONNECTION