[3]

The Fitzjames of 1206/1307 tons (om/nm) of timber construction was built at Richibucto, New Brunswick in 1852 by John James Jardine.  In 1853 she was sold to Pilkington and Wilson (later HT Wilson and Chambers, owners of the White Star Line). She made at least four successful voyages to Australia:   3 Oct 1855 - Dec 1855 from Southhampton to Port Adelaide   23 Dec 1856 - 1 Apr 1857 from Plymouth to Sydney (>440 passengers)*   23 Apr 1858 - 28 Jul 1858 from Plymouth to Sydney (>461 passengers)*   13 Nov 1859 - 28 Feb 1860 from Liverpool to Sydney and Brisbane (11 Mar 1860) (>420 passengers)** On 24 Jan 1866 she set sail from Liverpool enroute to Melbourne.   On 14 Feb 1866 she put into Lisbon after springing aleak and was declared unseaworthy on arrival in Melbourne.  The Fitzjames ended her days in Port Adelaide as a quarantine vessel and as a boys reformatory hulk.  Sometime around the turn of the century she was broken up in the vicinity of Jervois Bay, an area which served as a ships graveyard in inner Port Adelaide until the early 1980's. * number of passengers in online list in the State Records NSW database: Index to assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59 ** number of passengers in online list in the State Records NSW database: Index to assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney 1860-79

A searchable passenger list for the 1858 voyage of the Fitzjames from Plymouth to Sydney is available on line in the State Records NSW database.  A crew list is also available on line.

Newspaper Reports

[1] Anne Oates A Gathering of the Oates Anne Oates: Millthorpe, NSW, 1974 (p 21).
[2] Bruce W. Thomas William Thomas (1805-1881) and the Thomas Family of Guyong Bruce W. Thomas: Millthorpe, NSW, 1974 (pp 7, 110).
[3] Pictures that appearred prieviosly on this page were of another ship of the same name.  Some pictures of the Fitzjames appear  in the documents listed beloe under Ships Details.

Ships Details
Palmer List of Merchant Vessels
Immigrant Ships D-F
Magellan - Ship Biographies
Grafton Rowing Club
Australian Institute for Maritime Archeology, Newsletter, Vol 18 (3,4) 1999 (pdf file)
Ships Graveyards of South Australia (pdf file)
JOURNAL Richards&May Fitzjames GC 2003 (pdf file)

Passenger Lists
Passenger List - Fitzjames, London & Southampton to Adelaide, 1856
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters July 1858 (crew list)
Index to assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-59
Index to assisted immigrants arriving in Sydney 1860-79

Additional Information
Passenger Ships Arriving in NSW  
Passenger Ships Arriving in Queensland
Australian shipping 1788-1968
The Ships List