South Australian Official assisted passenger lists, 1879

Woodlark sailed from London and arrived Adelaide 21 February 1879

Surname	First Name
Foster	Agnes
Foster	Agnes
Foster	George
Foster	George F.

Source: State Records of South Australian
Series Id: GRG35/48 Records relating to official assisted immigration - Crown Lands and Immigration Office
Consignment/Sub-Series: 00001 Official assisted passage passenger lists
Unit: 28
Passenger List: 79/4

LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE - From Lloyd's

Home Sailings

Deal. Nov. 4. Woodlark for Adelaide

Source: London Times 5/11/1878, Page 5

Home Sailings

Plymouth. Nov. 5. Woodlark for Adelaide

Source: London Times 6/11/1878, Page 6

Home Sailings

Plymouth. Nov. 8. Woodlark for Adelaide

Source: London Times 9/11/1878, Page 6

Wrecks and Casualties

Weymouth. Nov. 11. - The Woodlark, ship, of Dundee, from London to Adelaide, put in here, having been driven up Channel with lower foretopsailyard and spearboom carried away. She also came into collision with the Mary Ann (fishing vessels) on Friday morning off the Eddystone; the latter vessels is said to have foundered. Four of the crew were landed here.

Source: London Times 13/11/1878, Page ??

Shipping Casualties

[Australasian Shipping News, Jan 9.]

Woodlark, ship, London to Adelaide, came into collision on Nov 8 with the Mary Ann, fishing smack, in the English Channel and sank her. The crew escaped on to the ship, which put back to Weymouth on Nov 11, with the loss of several of her spars.

Source: Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3260, 28 January 1879, Page 2

The Woodlark

When a comparatively new ship, the Woodlark was chartered by the Shaw, Savill Co. for three voyages to New Zealand. She was a fine clipper of 867 tons, built in 1870, and owned by A. Stephens and Son, Dundee. She came out to Auckland under Captain T. Wood, in 1873, with 125 Government immigrants, arriving in port, on the 31st May.

Source: White Wings Vol II. Founding Of The Provinces And Old-Time Shipping. Passenger Ships From 1840 To 1885 by Henry Brett Chapter VIII. - Vessels Of The 70's And Later

WOODLARK - 1887

Code letters	JQHR
Official Number	63978
Master	Captain A.N. White, appointed to the shipping line and to the ship in 1885.
Rigging	Barque of composite materials; iron frame planked; 2 decks; sheathed in felt and yellow metal; copper fastened; roof on deck.
Tonnage	917 tons gross, 787 under deck and 869 net.
Dimensions	182.4 feet long, 32.1 foot beam and holds 19.3 feet deep; Poop 52 feet long; Forecastle 33 feet.
Construction	1870, A. Stephen & Sons in Dundee; repairs to damages in 1875.
Owners	A. Stephen & Sons
Port of registry	Dundee
Port of survey	Valparaiso

Source: Gilbert Provost's Register of Ships

The Woodlark, 869 tons, Captain W. Gibbons chartered by Sir Arthur Blyth, K.C.M.G., Agent-General for South Australia, left Plymouth on the 8th instant for Port Adelaide, with 290 emigrants, among whom were fifty-nine single female domestic servants.

Source: Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), Wednesday, November 13, 1878; Issue 5935

WEYMOUTH, Nov. 11. - The Woodlark, ship, of Dundee, Gibbons, from London for Adelaide, has put in here, having been driven up channel. Has lower foretopsail yard and spanker boom carried away, and reports having been in collision with the fishing smack Mary Ann, of Plymouth, off the Eddystone, at 3 A.M. on the 8th inst. Crew of the smack got on board the Woodlark, and landed here this evening.

Source: The Newcastle Courant etc (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, November 15, 1878; Issue 10638

Notes

Fore Topsail Yard - See illustration below.

Spanker Boom - See illustration below.

Spearboom - I can find no trace of this term. Other reports refer to the loss of a Spanker Boom, so maybe this is a mistake in this report.

Ship's Rigging