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OCEAN HOME

OCEAN HOME WAS A VESSEL OF 596 TONS.

SHE LEFT LE HARVE BOUND FOR NEW ORLEANS ARRIVING ON 18TH MAY 1854 WITH CAPTAIN A H MERRYMAN IN COMMAND

WARNING - THE BELOW TWO VOYAGES MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THIS VESSEL, BUT WERE ACTUALLY UNDER TAKEN BY THE OCEAN HOLE WHOSE DETAILS ARE SHOWN BELOW


25TH AUGUST 1860 SHE ARRIVED IN HOBSONS BAY WITH GOVERNMENT ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.209 SINGLE WOMEN, 20 SINGLE MEN AND 19 MARRIED COUPLES AND 36 CHILDREN. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN HER FIRST VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND


ON THE 24TH DECEMBER 1860 SHE CARRIED 347 PASSENGERS ( I THINK FROM INDIA TO GUYANA )

OCEAN HOME

OCEAN HOME AMERICAN IMMIGRANT SHIP WAS RUN DOWN IN SEPTEMBER 1856 BY OFF THE LIZARD POINT 74 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES

 

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OCEAN HOME

OCEAN HOME WAS A VESSEL OF 596 TONS BUILT IN 1858 AT NEW BRUNSWICK.UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN NOBLE SHE SAILED FOR AUSTRALIA IN 1860 SHE SEEMED TO BE OWNED ENTIRELY BY HT WILSON ( WHITE STAR LINE ) BY  1860.

LEFT 30TH APRIL 1860 ARRIVED 20TH AUGUST 1860  IN VICTORIA

SHE WAS PLACED IN QUARANTINE ON THE 18TH AUGUST 1860.SHE WAS CARRYING 261 IMMIGRANTS.FIVE OF THEM WERE TAKEN ASHORE TO HOSPITAL WITH TYPHUS FEVER,  THE SHIP WAS THEN RELAEASED THE SAME DAY.THREE OF THE IMMIGANTS DIED AND THE OTHER TWO RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL ON 1ST AND THEN THE 10TH OCTOBER AND  WENT ONTO MELBOURNE

SHE WAS CHARTERED TO THE BLACKBALL LINE IN 1861.AND SAILED FOR AUSTRALIA WITH CAPTAIN NOBLE STILL BEING IN COMMAND.

SHE WAS SOLD TO CURRIE & CO IN 1863.

IN 1864 SHE WAS SOLD TO KELLOG & CO OF LIVERPOOL. 

SHE SANK ON 5TH SEPTEMBER 1866 (1856 ? )  AFTER COLLISION WITH THE AMERICAN VESSEL CHEMBIN ( CHERUBIM  USA  LAUNCHED IN 1855 OWNED BY D CURRRIE  ? ) WHILST IN THE VICINITY OF THE LIZARD.SEVENTY SEVENTY PASSENGERS LOST THEIR LIVES

ANOTHER ACCOUNTS SAYS SHE WAS OFF SPITHEAD AND CAUGHT FIRE ON 2ND JANUARY 1869

THESE TWO VESSELS MAY INDEED BE THE SAME ONE - ITS DIFFICULT TO SEPERATE THE TWO SHIPS AS THEY BOTH ARE REPORTED AS BEING THE SAME SIZE WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE CORRECT

I THINK THE TWO SHIPS  HAVE BEEN CONFUSED OVER THE YEARS - TWO SHIPS TEN YEARS APART BOTH IN COLLISION OF THE LIZARD BOTH LOSING 74 PEOPLE AND BOTH SHIPS IN COLLISION WITH A VESSEL OF SIMLIAR NAME SPELLING - UNLIKELY