His last voyage before retiring from the sea was in the new ship "Confiance" leaving Liverpool December 8, 1852, and arriving at Geelong, Victoria, Australia on April 25, 1853, with 416 immigrants, including 15 infants born on board the ship. There were also 27 deaths, mostly from dysentery among the children. He then sailed home, stopping in Peru for a cargo of guano, his only round-the-world voyage.
He kept detailed, personal records of his voyages and of his life ashore
which in later life he summarized into several books of "Sea Remarks."
The voyages, except the last, are described in two books which are reproduced in the first.file below as transcribed by his elder
great-grandson. The voyage to Geelong was recorded daily in a journal which is in the second file below. To these have been added by another great-grandson some explanatory notes, excerpts from diaries of four passengers on the voyage that were deposited in the State Library of Victoria and links to other sites related to the narrative.
The third file below is a complete transcript of "The Passengers Act, 1852" which governed emigrant traffic from the United Kingdon to the Colonies.
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Click on Thirty-four
Voyages of Joseph Price
Click on The voyage of the emigrant ship "Confiance" to Geelong, Australia
Click on The Passengers Act, 1852
Comments to: W.M.Price
Copyright 2004 Canada. -- This copyright applies only to the Joseph Price Journals and Sea Remarks.
This page was revised 2005 April 18