Weymouth
Richard Turner, master. Portsmouth January 7th 1820 to Table Bay April 25th 1820 and Algoa Bay May 15th 1820
The Weymouth was used to transport 11 parties of 1820 settlers from Portsmouth to Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth). Such passenger lists as remain are in the Cape Archives but listings taken from their holdings, as well as a lot of background information on the emigration scheme and further details about many of the settlers, can be found in ‘The Settler Handbook’ by M.D.Nash, Chameleon Press 1987( ISBN 0 620 10940 8), available from the Albany Museum, Somerset Street, Grahamstown 6139, South Africa. The Public Record Office in Kew, London, holds both the captain’s log (ADM51/3543) and the second master’s log (ADM52/4655) as well as the ship’s muster roll. At first sight the two logs seem identical but there are subtle differences in the information they contain. Below are transcriptions of the captain’s log (ADM51/3543 and the muster roll for December 1819 (ADM37/6145)
This scale model was built by Dr J.A. Pringle of the Port Elizabeth Museum and based on the only known plans of a settler ship that have survived
Kindly transcribed and submitted to TheShipsList by Sue Mackay, of Cardiff. (additional transcriber notes in italics)
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Book Title: Algoa Bay In the Age of Sail
Colin Urquhart
Page 163
A number of years ago a mock up of a passanger basket off loading a women (Settler) in Port Elizabeth was erected in the Bay World Museum. This became a common method later in the shipping history of the port and i am just sorry now that i did not take a photograph at the time.
