Autobiography by Captain Young, c.1865 - 1893

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Series 7
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Filmed selectively: pp. 50-111

Descriptions of several voyages to Australia on City of Agra carrying cargo and passengers

Details of: ships; crews; gales; friends made in Melbourne; voyage taking Reverend Hilliard and family to Melbourne; taking horses from Melbourne to Madras; distressed migrants at Lyttelton; the harbour at Lyttelton; strike at Newcastle in 1874; loading wool at Circular Quay, Sydney; heard Ilona de Murska sing at Melbourne 'all Melbourne went mad over her'; partitioning ship to carry migrants; mess arrangements; removing firearms from boxes of fenians; carrying Queensland migrants for Anderson Anderson and Co; taking coal from Newcastle to Melbourne; loading wool at Geelong; chartered by New Zealand Shipping Company to carry cargo and passengers to Auckland (c.1879); effects of eruption of Krakatoa, 1883; last voyage from Melbourne in City of Agra in 1889; voyage on Barunga to Port Pirie and Kooringa to Brisbane with large water pipes, 1890; Pitcairn Island; apathy of the natives 'seem contented and satisfied with their own lot'; voyages to Adelaide; coal from Newcastle to Honolulu; timber from Port Townsend to Callao.

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