The British bark JENNY LIND was built at Quebec in 1847. 484 tons; 118 x 26 x 20 ft (length x beam x depth of hold); 1 deck; figurehead: bust of a woman. Re-registered at Plymouth, England, on 26 February 1848 [Canadian Ship Information Database, quoting National Archives of Canada, RG 42, Vol. 1405 (original Vol. 194 = microfilm reel C-2061), and Eileen Reid Marcil, The Charley-Man; a history of wooden shipbuilding at Quebec (Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press, 1993)]. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1848/49-1850/51 contain the following information on the vessel:

Master:
     1848/49-1849/50 - [Stephen] Cleverly
     1850/51         - [Joseph] Taylor

Owner:  Brent & Co

Port of Registry:  Plymouth

Port of Survey:
     1848/49-1849/50 - Liverpool
     1850/51         - London

Destined Voyage:
     1848/49-1849/50 - New York
     1850/51         - Adelaide

The JENNY LIND, Taylor, master, arrived at Melbourne, Victoria, on 2 August 1850, from Adelaide 26 July, with 5 passengers in the cabin, 45 in steerage, and merchandise. On 27 August, she cleared, and on 29 August sailed for Singapore, with 5 or 6 passengers and part of her original cargo, but on 21 September was wrecked on either Kenn's Reef or Wreck Reef, off Queensland [Marten A. Syme, Shipping arrivals and departures: Victorian ports, vol. 2: 1846-1855, Roebuck Society Publication No. 39 (Melbourne: [Roebuck Society], 1987), p. 61.

For additional information on the wreck of the JENNY LIND, see Charles Bateson, Australian shipwrecks; including vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings, Volume 1, 1622-1850 (Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1972); Ronald H. Parsons, ed., The Australasian Shipping Record (1970ff); and Ian Hawkins Nicholson, Log of logs; a catalogue of logs, journals, shipboard diaries, letters, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788 to 1988, for Australia and New Zealand and surrounding oceans, vol. 2, Roebuck Society Publication No. 47 (Yaroomba, Qld: The Author jointly with the Australian Association for Maritime History, 1993), p. 245.