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Title: Ship Clutha Brigantine Left Leith - Scotland - Sept 1853 for New Zealand
Post by: suzie.q on Monday 07 January 13 08:29 GMT (UK)

I am looking for information of the Ship Clutha Brigantine  (cargo ship)  what date in September 1853 did it leave Scotland?
Did the ship stop at Bristol or London?

Reason for my questions to confirm that the people on the ship are my relatives. I am sure that if they were on that ship they would have boarded in Bristol due to my time frame of them marrying on the 23rd Sept 1853. However if the ship did not stop at Bristol or London then I have the wrong ship.
Any help would be appreciated. The ship arrived Lyttelton NZ 19 March 1854 via Port Chamlers NZ which it arrived Feb 1853

Title: Re: Ship Clutha Brigantine Left Leith - Scotland - Sept 1853 for New Zealand
Post by: Skoosh on Monday 07 January 13 11:43 GMT (UK)

Clutha, old name for the river Clyde and a pub in Glasgow. No help to you at all though.

Skoosh.

Title: Re: Ship Clutha Brigantine Left Leith - Scotland - Sept 1853 for New Zealand
Post by: tidybooks on Monday 07 January 13 11:58 GMT (UK)

Hi suzie.q,

Had a look at the shipping news in the Scotsman, and there is a cargo ship Clutha, was receiving cargo at Glasgow, then due to set sail 1 September 1853 to Quebec. So not sure if this was the ship you had in mind.

Tom

Title: Re: Ship Clutha Brigantine Left Leith - Scotland - Sept 1853 for New Zealand
Post by: suzie.q on Monday 07 January 13 21:35 GMT (UK)

She sailed from Leith in the month of September, but having met with a heavy gale off Holland, which carried away her bowsprit, she had to put into Yarmouth, from whence she sailed on the 3r4d October.
The Clutha is a fine brigantine of 250 tons, owned by Mr George Ross

Title: Re: Ship Clutha Brigantine Left Leith - Scotland - Sept 1853 for New Zealand
Post by: jillsw on Thursday 02 May 19 07:21 BST (UK)

George Ross was my great-great-grandfather. He sailed to Otago from Glasgow on the Philip Laing in 1847, arriving in Otago in April 1848 - the second ship to do so.
He returned to his family ship-building in Inverkeithing, Scotland, with the purpose of bringing out a ship for trade - the Clutha - and a few passengers, some of whom were his family members. They sailed from Leith in September 1853, apparently intending to come direct, but had to put into Yardmouth to replace the bowsprit damaged in a storm off Holland. They sailed from Yardmouth on 3 October and arrived in Port Chalmers on 12 February 1854, with passengers Mr Paterson, Mr and Mrs Kilgour and family, Mr and Mrs Alexander and family, Mr and Mrs Sibbald and family, two Messrs Calder, and Mr Wilson.
The Clutha sailed on to Lyttelton, arriving on 19 March 1854, with passengers Mr and Mrs Reece, and Messrs Ross, Knapman, Newman, and Stuart.
No mention is made of Bristol or London in the newspaper reports of the time.