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NEVA
NEVA WAS A VESSEL OF 850 TONS CHARTERED BY THE WHITE STAR LINE IN 1853 AND MADE A VOYAGE FROM LIVERPOOL TO NEW ORLEANS
BELOW IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY NO WHITE STAR LINE CONNECTIONS
THE NEVA WAS A THREE MASTED BARQUE OF 837 TONS BUILT IN 1818.
SHE LEFT CORK 8TH JANUARY 1835 BOUND NSW CARRYING 148 FEMALE CONVICTS AND 33 CHILDREN AND TWENTY SETTLERS.
SHE HIT A REEF OFF KING ISLAND,TASMANIA IN 1835 AND SANK MORE - THAN 200 WOMEN
DROWNED.SOME OF THEM MADE IT ASHORE TO KING ISLAND BUT THE MAJORITY DIED OF
COLD AND
EXPOSURE
THERE WAS ANOTHER VESSEL CALLED NEVA, A AMERICAN-RUSSIAN VESSEL WHICH SANK OF
ALASKA IN 1813