Hell ship : the true story of the plague ship Ticonderoga, one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history

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Hell ship : the true story of the plague ship Ticonderoga, one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history

Title remainder

the true story of the plague ship Ticonderoga, one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history

Statement of responsibility

Michael Veitch

Creator

• Veitch, Michael, 1962-

Author

• Veitch, Michael, 1962-

Subject

• Large type books
• Ocean travel -- History -- 19th century
• Ticonderoga (Clipper ship)
• Typhus fever
• Australia -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 19th century
• Immigrants -- Australia

Language

eng

Summary

For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrantsmostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better life, they believed, awaited them in Australia. Three months later, a ghost ship crept into Port Phillip Bay flying the dreaded yellow flag of contagion. On her horrific threemonth voyage, deadly typhus had erupted, killing a quarter of Ticonderoga's passengers and leaving many more desperately ill. Sharks, it was said, had followed her passage as the victims were buried at sea. Panic struck Melbourne. Forbidden to dock at the goldboom town, the ship was directed to a lonely beach on the far tip of the Mornington Peninsula, a place now called Ticonderoga Bay. James William Henry Veitch was the ship's assistant surgeon, on his first appointment at sea. Among the volunteers who helped him tend to the sick and dying was a young woman from the island of Mull, Annie Morrison. What happened between them on that terrible voyage is a testament to human resilience, and to love

Biography type

contains biographical information

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates
• facsimiles

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult