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COMINGS AND GOINGS 25

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Summary: Plan of a Sailing ship

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The appalling conditions on the early emigrant ships forced the government into overseeing improved conditions. This plan of a more modern ship shows how families, single men and single women were given separate quarters.

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Cross-section of the emigrant ship "Bourneuf" of Liverpool, showing the layout of the passengers' quarters, 1852. This ship, of 1495 Tons burden was used for the transport of government passengers to Australia.

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