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1844 Ships	Depart from Arrive at	Departure date Arrival date	Other information	Passengers

St Helena	Cape of Good Hope Port Adelaide	11 Nov 1843 03 Jan 1844	schooner 1814-	passengers

Symmetry	Leith Port Adelaide	01 Sep 1843 21 Feb 1844	ship 1840-	15 passengers

Bing Tang Ting	Singapore Port Adelaide	Dec 1843 02 Feb 1844	barque 1842-	no passengers

Taglioni	London Port Adelaide	12 Feb 1844 18 Jun 1844	ship rig 1840-	passengers

Waterwitch	Mauritius Port Adelaide	- 19 Jun 1844	schooner 1831-

Guiana	Mauritius Port Adelaide	- 21 Jun 1844	barque 1831-1847

Prince Albert	Cape of Good Hope Port Adelaide	20 Jul 1844	brig 1842-	passengers en route to New Zealand

Symmetry	Mauritius Port Adelaide	21 Jun 1844 31 Aug 1844	ship 1840	1 passenger

George Washington	Hamburg Bremen Port Adelaide	23 May 1844 29 May 1844 12 Sep 1844	ship rig 1822-	184 passengers

John Heyes	London Port Adelaide	12 Jun 1844 11 Oct 1844	ship rig 184-	25 passengers

Yare	London Port Adelaide	17 Jun 1844 11 Oct 1844	brig 1830-	2 passengers

Bleng	Liverpool Port Adelaide	22 Jun 1844 23 Oct 1844	barque 1841-	1 passenger

Hanseat	Hamburg Port Adelaide	31 Oct 1844	barque 1841-	whaling voyage

Mary White	Liverpool Sydney Port Phillip Port Adelaide	20 May 1844 - - 06 Nov 1844	barque 1834-1851	21 passengers

Branken Moor	London Port Adelaide	07 Sep 1844 27 Dec 1844	ship 1827	8 passengers

The data in the Other Information column includes a brief description of the vessel, the year of construction and, if known, the year of loss/destruction where the ship was later lost at sea or shipwrecked.

Sources:
South Australian Records Prior to 1841 (Opie)
Migrant Ships for South Australia 1836-1866 (Ronald Parsons)
Shipping Arrivals and Departures South Australia 1627-1850 (Sexton)
The Land of Promise (John Stephens)

At times there is a conflict in the information provided by each of the sources listed above. For example, dates of sailing may vary from one source to another, and 3 different references may give 3 differing dates!