Catharina (ship)
The Catharina was a barque, built 1810 in Kiel, and weighing 350 tons.
Voyages[edit]
- Hamburg to Port Adelaide, South Australia - 21 September 1838 to 20 January 1839
- On board were a group of Lutheran dissidents, 'Kavel's People', including Johann Friedrich Krummnow, which wanted to form a community in Australia.[1] En route Krummnow taught the girls but was deemed "not completely satisfactory and the community did not allow him to teach in Australia".[1]
- Port Adelaide, South Australia to Batavia - departed 27 February 1839
References[edit]
- ^ a b Nutting, David (2001). "J. F. Krummnow". Teachers on the Web. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
Notes[edit]
- "Ships arriving in South Australia 1838", Pioneers Association of South Australia
- "Shipping Arrivals", South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Inc
- "Catharina", Private homepage of Graeme Moad
- "Captain Dirk Hahn and the "Hahndorf" passengers to South Australia", German Australia, David Nutting
- "Catharina 1839", Private webpages of DIANE CUMMINGS
