THE SHIP “LANDSBOROUGH”
by Fitzroy 1920
The ship Landsborough, 1166 tons burden, Captain Maxwell, with Dr. T. U Scott as Surgeon Superintended sailed from Plymouth on January 23, 1865, but the number of immigrants is not stated in the writer’s particulars. She made a fairly good trip of it as she anchored off Seaview Hill, Keppel Bay on May 6, after a voyage of 103 days.
The Landsborough established a record in the fact that no a death occurred during the voyage neither was there any infectious disease during the trip.
By this time the novelty of these immigrants ships’ arrivals had worn off considerably, and it is notable that the Landsborough was the forty ninth vessel that had landed immigrants in Queensland under the Government land order system, of which number, nine had been sent to the Central District.
The only passengers by the vessel, on the writer’s record, were Mrs. And Miss Otley who purchased land on the Crocodile road, near the Duck Pond at Eagan’s Hill. Miss Otley was understood to be engaged to Thomas John Griffin at the time he murdered the Escort troopers. The young lady subsequently married Mr. J. H. Wilkinson, well known in the Rockhampton district forty or more years ago.