SOLWAY
last modified 13 June 2009

View of Cos' [i.e. Company's] fishing station and Cape Rosetta, Encounter Bay, South Australia, taken from the beach [picture] / Colonel Light del.

Final resting place of the Solway
View of South Australian Company's fishing station and Cape Rosetta, Encounter Bay, South Australia

 By permission of the National Library of Australia


The Solway (337 tons om), a 3 mast ship, was built in1829 at Monkwearmouthshore mear Sunderland and owned by the South Australian Company [4].

Under the command of captain R Pearson The Solway departed Hamburg in 9 June 1837 and arrived at Kangaroo Is, SA on 16 October 1837.

The Solway broke moorings and was wrecked during a storm in Rosetta Harbour, Encounter Bay on 21Dec 1837.
 

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Passenger List
The passenger list comes largely from Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885 [1] and is augmented by data from various web sites.

Captain
PEARSON R

Ships Surgeon


Passengers
BAGANS [5]
 Johann Frederick
BAUER[1,5] Carl Leonard Friedrich (1808) baker
BREMER[1,5] Lanritz (1808)

wife

.....child

.....child
CHRISTIAN[1,5,7]
 Johann Gottlieb (1808)

Karoline

.....Johann Gottlieb (1837)
CHRISTIAN[1,5]
 Friedricke Wilhelmine (1813, sister of Johann Gottlieb Snr?)
DEBUS[1,5] Johann Christian Philip (1803) joiner

wife

.....child

.....child
DIESE[5]
 Leonhart
DREBING[1,5] August Heinrich, labourer
DRESE[1,5]
 Louis, labourer
FLEIM[1,5] Georg (1815) labourer
FORTSCH[1,5] Conrad (1806) labourer from Bavaria

wife
GRAMP[1]
 Johann (1819)
HANSON[1]
 Louis (1813) from Heligoland
HAUSER[1,5]
 Wilhelm Jacob (1814) labourer
HUTSCH[[1,5]
 K, labourer
KLEEMANN[1,5,7] Friedrich Wilhelm (1798)

CH (died on voyage)

.....August Wilhelm (1828)

.....Heinrich Ferdinand (1830)

.....Wilhelmine Friedericke (1832)

.....Emilie Albertina Ernestine (1834)
KOEHLER[1,5,6] Johann Georg Byer, labourer
KRAMER[1,5] Ludwig (1804) labourer
LAGE[5] .....David
MILDE[1,2,5] Wilhelm (1799) from Hamburg

Catherina Elisabeth nee STEFFENS (1807)
[2]
 .....Elise Charlotte Wilhelmine (1837, born at sea)
NEANDER[1,5]
 Wilhelm Gottlieb (1806)

Mary

.....Louis

.....Mark
. .....Amelia
OPPEL[1,5]
 Johann Nicol (1803) labourer
OELRICH[5] Friedrich Hermann Otto
PFEIFFER[5] Georg Gottlieb
PIEPKORN[5,7]
 David

wife
PROPHET[5]
 Ulric
SCHMIDT[1,5]
 Sebastian Anthony (1813) labourer
STURN[1,5] Frederick Christian (1813)
THEILMANN[5]
 Adolph Ludwig
WALLSCHLAGER[1,5,7] Christian Friedrich (1811)

Mary formerly KANNENBERG

.....Hannah Susannah

.....Gottlieb

.....Manasseh

.....child
ZILM[5]
 Andreas
ZILM[5]
 Conrad


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Newspaper Reports

The South Australian Register
Adelaide - January 1838

"The loss of the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN and the SOLWAY both occurred at the Station of the South Australian Company at Encounter Bay, called Rosetta Harbour, about three miles to the west of Victoria Harbour.
  From the reports which have reached us, we believe that the circumstances attendant upon the loss of both vessels deserve a thorough investigation. Rosetta Harbour is at best but an unsafe anchorage for a single vessel,but there is no security for more at the best season of the year. The SOUTH AUSTRALIAN after waiting for upwards of a fortnight in daily expectation of the arrival of the SOLWAY, was caught in a tremendous gale, broke from her moorings, drove over the reef and was totally lost. The crew and passengers happily escaped. The greatest praise is due to Captain MacFarlane for his conduct on this occasion.
  A few days afterwards the SOLWAY (with Captain Pearson) and the JOHN PIRIE (with Captain Martin) arrived and anchored at the same place. In another very severe southerly gale, the SOLWAY broke from her moorings, went onto the same reef which was fatal to the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN and became a total wreck. The JOHN PIRIE was driven on shore in a better position and was expected to be got off."
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References
[1]  Statten J (editor) Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885 South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society: Adelaide, 1886.
[2] Thomas, J (editor) South Australians 1836-1835, South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Association Inc: Adelaide,1990 (Milde, pp 293, 563).
[3] Opie, E.A.D. South Australian Records Prior to 1841 (originally published by Hassie and Gillingham Ltd: Adelaide, SA, 1917).facimile edition, Gillingham Printers: Adelaide, SA,1981 (pp 24, 46).
[4] Parsons, R. Migrant Ships for South Australia 1836-1850 Gould Books: Gumeracha, SA, 1983.
[5] Di Cummings web site (Bound for South Australia).
[6] Some appear in [1,5] under different or multiple names e.g. BAUER/BANER, DREBING/DIEBING, KOEHLER/BYERKOELHER, PFEIFFER/PFEUFFER.
[7] Iwan, W. Because of Their Beliefs (translated and edited by Schubert, D.) H. Schubert: Highgate, SA, 1995 (p 139).

Links

Passengers

Passenger list
Solway (Bound for South Australia by Diane Cummings)
Family History South Australia (select passenger lists and search for "Solway")

Ship's Description
South Australian Shipwrecks
National Shipwreck Database - search for Solway as shipwreck name

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