The wreck of the Neva : the horrifying fate of a convict ship and the Irish women aboard / Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd ; [foreword by] Graeme Broxam
- Bib ID:
- 10038016
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McCarthy, Cal, author
- Description:
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- Ireland ; Australia : Mercier Press ; Navarine Publishing, [2024]
- ©2024
- iii, 217 pages : colour illustrations, colour facsimiles, colour maps ; 27 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780645708653 (hardback)
- Series:
- Roebuck Society publication ; no. 69.
- Summary:
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"On 8th January 1835 the Neva sailed from Cork, destined for Sydney. There were 241 people on board, most of them either women convicts of the wives and children of already deported convicts journeying to join their loved ones. However, on the 13th May 1835 the ship hit a reef just north of King Island, Tasmania, and sank with the loss of 224 lives. This is the story of the doomed vessel and the women on board. Most of the passengers perished, but for the lucky survivors the journey from their poverty-stricken and criminal pasts continued towards the hope of freedom and prosperity on the far side of the world."--Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- 1.Ireland and Transportation
- 2.Kilmainham
- 3.The Second Shipment
- 4.Logistics and Organisation
- 5.Cork
- 6.Farewell to Ireland
- 7.The Voyage
- 8.The Wreck
- 9.King Island
- 10.Enquiry
- 11.Unsolved Mysteries
- 12.Colonial Australia
- 13.Life after the Neva
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- A copy has been contributed to the Library through legal deposit.
- Subject:
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- Neva (Ship : 1813)
- Shipwrecks -- Tasmania -- King Island -- History -- 19th century
- Convict ships -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
- Women convicts -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
- Irish -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century
- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
- Australia -- History -- 19th century
- Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- 19th century
- Tasmania -- Emigration and immigration -- 19th century
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
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