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Shipbuilder: Robert Steele & Co of Glasgow
Build location: Greenock, Scotland
Build year: 1873
Built for: Under supervision of John Legoe for Thompson & Anderson's "Orient Line"
She was an iron-hulled full-rigged ship of 1,777 tons register, length 262.2 feet (79.9 m), beam 39.6 feet (12.1 m), depth 23.4 feet (7.1 m). She had been built especially for the South Australian trade route, and her first contract was to carry some 340 immigrants to Adelaide, with John Legoe in command. Some enterprising individual managed to produce a slim newspaper The Hesperian of modest pretensions during the voyage.