Friday, December 6, 2013

Passengers to Natal: Sir Robert Peel 1854



The Sir Robert Peel was the first steamer to enter Port Natal, 1852

ARRIVAL OF THE SIR ROBERT PEEL Natal Mercury March 22 1854

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

ARRIVED

March 16 - Sir Robert Peel, stm - Boxer, from Table Bay,
March 3; Mossel Bay, 5; Algoa Bay, 8; Buffalo, 12.

PASSENGERS
Dr Best (45th Regiment)
Rev Mr Campbell
Rev Mr and Mrs Cox
Rev Dr and Mrs Faure, child and servant
Messsrs
Steele
Hunter

Churchill
Lentick
Brockhouse
Rouse
Thompson
Miss Sargeuant
Mrs Woodrow
8 in Steerage
Manifest list
E Snell agent.

SAILED
March 21st - Candace, brig - Fisher - for Muscat.
March 22nd - Margaret Gibson, bgtne, 149 tons - G Hannaford - for Mauritius.

IN PORT
Sir Robert Peel, str. 240 tons - Boxer - for Cape
E Snell, agent.

VESSELS EXPECTED
Natal, stm. 680 tons - from London
E Snell, agent.
Jane Morice, bq, - from Liverpool
EP Lamport, agent.
Leontine Mary, schr. 29 tons - Baragwanath - from Algoa Bay
E Snell, agent.
Heath, - , from London.

The clipper-barque 'Clydeside', advertised in the English papers, and laid on for this port, is withdrawn, and the 'Heath' has taken her place.

BIRTHS
At Howards Vale, Umhlali, near Compensation, on Saturday, 11th March, the lady of Capt. JMK Chadwick, of a son.

On the 17th instant, the wife of Robert Acutt, Esq. of this place, of a daughter.




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