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JAVA - The story of the East Indianman by Stephen Barnett

The illustrations, "Emigrants Farewell" Illustrated London News, 21/12/1844; " Embarkation "Illustrated London News, 6/7/1850; "Women', Illustrated London News, 17/8/1850; "Steerage", Illustrated London News" 13/4/1844; and "Burial at Sea", Australasian Sketcher", November 1880 all appear by kind permission of the "Latrobe Collection of the State Library Of Victoria"

The copy of a ticket and receipt for passage is reproduced with kind permission from Miss Lelia Conigrave.

Photos of the Java Taken in 1939 in Gibraltar are reproduced with kind permission from Peter Staveley of Devon, England as well as that of the hulk of the "Java" in Gibraltar appears by courtesy of David McGregor of London.

The copies of emigration posters are reproduced with permission from Dr John Tregenza, late of the History Trust of South Australia, who photographed the original posters in the Royal Institution Of Cornwall, Truro, in 1975.


Chapters: Contents • Introduction • The ship JAVA • Migration to South Australia • JAVA leaves London • Crossing the line • Arrival in South Australia • Medical board of enquiry • Other ships had great loss of children's lives • JAVA after 1840 • Appendices • Timeline