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Hornet

The immigrant ship HORNET plied between UK and Aust in the 1850s.
Weight abt 1150 tons it could accommodate 450 immigrants at one time and probably used the non-stop clipper route (Roaring Forties) to Melbourne

On its voyage May-Sep 1857 it did not stop at any Australian ports and  took 100 days for the voyage from Southampton to Melbourne

"The Hornet, from Southampton, anchored in Hobson's Bay yesterday. She brings 448 Government immigrants, which are classed as follows:- Married couples, 47; single women, 236; single men, 23; children from 1 to 12 years, 90; infants, 5.

Six births have taken place on the passage, and no death has occurred among the
passengers. A fatal accident happened on the 27th July, when, during a very heavy gale, a boy named Joseph Bulmer, aged sixteen years, a native of Shields, fell from the main-yard on deck, and died about twenty-four hours afterwards. Capt. Grieves reports having experienced very heavy weather throughout the passage; as also the loss of the cross-jack yard.