on 23 November 1827, and Captain Roman from 1829. All her voyages up to 1832 were from London to Jamaica. In 1833 she was chartered to carry convicts to Australia. On 16 June she sailed from the Thames under Captain Roman, arriving at Hobart, Tasmania on 23 October with 130 female convicts on board. On 9 March 1834 she sailed from Hobart via Bahia, Brazil for the Thames, arriving on 27 July. She made two more voyages to Australia in 1836 and 1837, returning to the Thames on 10 September 1837. Chartered by the New Zealand Company, the first of the New Plymouth's settlers arrived on the William Bryan under Captain Alexander McLean, which anchored off the coast on 31 March 1841 having sailed from Plymouth on 18 November 1840. In steerage were 21 married couples, 22 single adults and 70 children. George Cutfield was the head of the expedition. She changed ownership to Frampton and Co in 1845 and made journeys to Nova Scotia under Captain J Heiter, to Peru, and to the Black Sea. By 1855 she was sheathed in yellow metal. References History of New Zealand Immigration to New Zealand Migrant ships to New Zealand