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

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Record Number 800740
ISBN 9781489461476
Author Veitch, Michael, 1962- author,
narrator.
Title Hell ship : the true story of the plague ship Ticonderoga, one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history / Michael Veitch.
Edition MP3 edition ; Unabridged.
Publisher/Date Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2018]
℗2018.
Pagination etc. 1 audio disc (MP3 CD) (8 hr., 21 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Contents note "Warning: contains coarse language and adult themes"--Container.
Performer note Read by the author.
Summary Note 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 emigrants, mostly 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 three-month 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 gold-boom 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. Michael Veitch is their great-great-grandson, and Hell Ship is his brilliantly researched narrative of one of the biggest stories of its day, now all but forgotten. Broader than his own family's story, it brings to life the hardships and horrors endured by those who came by sea to seek a new life in Australia.
Subject Ticonderoga (Clipper ship)
Typhus fever -- Australia
Ships -- Health regulations
Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- Australia -- History
British -- Australia
Ocean travel -- History -- 19th century
British
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants -- Health and hygiene
Ocean travel
Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
Australia
Audiobooks.
History.
Corporate Author Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Shelf Location CD 994.02 VEIT
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