The "Lady Peel"

Emigrant Ship 1850

Illustration of a typical Emigrant ship, similar to the "Lady Peel" featuring three tall masts. This ship dates from the 1850 period and had accommodation for various classes of passenger from respectable to steerage. Among the passengers would have been a number of female emigrants and even children from Workhouses would typically have travelled on such ships to Australia in the Nineteenth Century. Their passage would have been paid from charitable funds raised among the local gentry. The illustration depicts a ship of about 1,000 tons.

Carlow County Library

Emigrant Ship 1850
Carlow County Library

Emigrant Ship 1850

Illustration of a typical Emigrant ship, similar to the "Lady Peel" featuring three tall masts. This ship dates from the 1850 period and had accommodation for various classes of passenger from respectable to steerage. Among the passengers would have been a number of female emigrants and even children from Workhouses would typically have travelled on such ships to Australia in the Nineteenth Century. Their passage would have been paid from charitable funds raised among the local gentry. The illustration depicts a ship of about 1,000 tons.

Carlow County Library

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The "Lady Peel" was a three-masted ship built in Quebec by Thomas Lee in 1843. She weighed 567 tons and measured 119 feet in length. The ship had one deck and a square stern on which was a figurehead of a woman. The ship was registered in Falmouth in 1844.

The "Lady Peel" sailed primarily between England and Canada. She made at least two voyages to New York, the first of which was in September - October 1848, out of Penzance in Cornwall. The voyage took thirty-eight days and there were 185 steerage passengers on board. A man called Johns was cited as the Master of the ship at that time. She sailed again from Limerick to New York in October 1850 and this voyage took 41 days and had 225 passengers on board.

J. Luety was Master of the "Lady Peel" when a party of orphans from the Carlow Workhouse sailed on her to Australia in 1849. However this ship was not listed in the Lloyds Register of Shipping for that year.

In 1861 the "Lady Peel" was back in the Canadian trade and re-registered in Canada. She was abandoned in the North Atlantic in December 1872.