Cover image for Reports of Ships' Arrivals with Lists of Passengers
Series:
Reports of Ships' Arrivals with Lists of Passengers
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
24 Mar 1829
End Date:
31 Dec 1970
Creating Agency:
01 Jan 182531 Dec 1858

01 Jan 185816 Dec 1996
How to Use:
Digital images of some of this record series are available to view online by clicking on the item links below to get to the Item Details pages. Please note that blank pages have not been digitised; therefore the image page numbers will not match exactly to the record page numbers.

Copies may be made for private research/study but any other use requires permission from the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.

Many of the names in these records have been indexed and can be found in the "Tasmanian Names Index" at http://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names, along with the digitised volumes.
Series notes:
Contain the name of vessel, date of arrival, last port and date of sailing, state of health, name of ship's master, owner, gross and net tonnage, port of registration, number of crew, number and names of cabin and steerage passengers, nature of cargo, time when boarded by pilot, bearings and distance of Derwent lighthouse when pilot boarded, wind strength and direction, weather, pilot's name, agent, draught forward and aft and details of any explosives on board. The signature of the Harbour Master was required at the foot of the one page report.

However, any one report may omit some of this information. For example, passengers may only be listed by number on board.

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Chronological.;;Some volumes are self indexed by name of ship.
Items: