Forth

Forth was built in 1826 at Leith, Scotland. She made two voyages transporting convicts to New South Wales. After disembarking the convicts from her second voyage she sailed to Manila. She sailed from Manila in July 1835 and subsequently foundered without a trace. Career Forth first appeared in Lloyd's List (LR), in the issue for 1826. In 1813 the British East India Company (EIC) had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC. In the late 1820s, Forth, master, sailed between Great Britain and Mauritius. On her first convict voyage, under the command of J. Robertson and surgeon J. Cook, she sailed from Cork, Ireland on 3 June 1830, and arrived at Port Jackson on 12 October 1830. She had embarked 120 female convicts, all of whom survived the voyage. Forth left Port Jackson on 20 February 1831 bound for London with a cargo of merchandise. She arrived back at England on 13 July 1831.