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PART I
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF VESSELS
The earliest registers of the arrival and departure of vessels were commenced
in November 1799 following instructions from the Duke of Portland to Governor
Hunter dated 10th April 1799 (Historical Records of Australia 1.2.341):
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"It being judged necessary, in consequence of the increasing
intercourse of this and other countries with his Majesty's colony of
New South Wales, to ascertain the number and description of all such
vessels as may arrive at or proceed from Port Jackson in the course
of each year, I herewith inclose you the form of returns of ships and
vessels entering inwards and clearing outwards, which you are to
cause to be filled up in the manner therein prescribed, and to be
afterwards regularly entered in a proper book for that purpose.
Copies of these returns, attested by the Governor for the time being,
are to be transmitted half-yearly to this office, with duplicates to
the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations..."
Hunter, in reply (10th November 1799 HRA 1.2.393) placed Richard Atkins in
charge of "keeping a correct register of all ships entering into or clearing
out from this port". The earliest returns are printed in Historical Records of
Australia, the first being in Volume 2 pp.570-2. In 1800 this duty passed to
the newly appointed Naval Officer, William Balmain (HRA 1.2.692). The Archives
Office holds the original returns prepared by the Naval Officer from 1810.
The Harbour Master continued the function, his title being changed to the Port
Master from 23rd January 1843 (Blue Book 1843 p.216).
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See also: Part II - Free Passengers arriving pp.31-62
Newspaper Indexes in the Mitchell Library
Concise Guide to the State Archives - Maritime Services Board
Navigation Department
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SYDNEY: VESSELS ARRIVING AND DEPARTING
1.
Are provided with insisted Passages to
SYDNEY.
2.
Nicholson, Ian:
Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, 1826-40.
Published Canberra, Roebuck, 1981. (Copy in AO Reference Collection
at AO Q36)
3.
Emigration poster, c.1883. From the original poster in the Archives Office o
New South Wales (AO Document 93, enclosure to CSIL 84/3397 in 4/861.2).
Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, 1788-1825.
Published Canberra, Roebuck, 1972. (Copy in AO Reference Collection
at AO Q35)
By the Agent-Oeneral for New South Wales
Full Particulars and Forms of Application may be obtained troll
the Emigration Department, New South Wales Government Office
5, Westminster Chambers, London S.W.
Cumpston, J.S.:
Returns of vessels arriving at and departing from Port Jackson, 1791,
1799-1807
These returns are printed in Historical Records of Australia, and
record date, vessel's name and master, where built, tonnage, number
of guns and men, where and when built, where and when registered,
owner's name, cargo, from whence or whither bound, and where and when
bond given.
Similar returns from 1810 are also printed in HRA and the Archives
Office holds originals from the same date (series 4).
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