The Lady Kennaway’s final resting place
Apr 29, 2022
2 minutes
he , a three-masted, square-rigged teak barque of 584t, was built in 1817 by Kid & Company in what was then Calcutta, India. Although the ship sailed mostly between Europe and India, she was also known to have transported settlers, convicts and orphaned Irish girls to Australia. The reason for the ’s fateful visit to East London in late 1857 was linked to the history of British colonial settlement,
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