Transcribed and submitted to TheShipsList by Robert Janmaat, Adelaide, from a variety of sources, cited below.
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ship Stamboul, 890 tons, Captain I.A. Smith, from London 21st October & Southampton 24th October 1857, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 1st February 1858

. . . . — 1st ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1858 ; —3— births and —11— deaths on the passage ; Dr. Henry Rickards, surgeon-superintendent.

ship Stamboul	South Australian Government Gazette 13th May 1858
Left Plymouth on the 24th October 1857, and arrived on the 1st day of February 1858 with 336 immigrants. Eleven deaths and three births occurred at sea. She was commanded by Mr. I.A. Smith and Mr. Henry Richards [sic] was the Surgeon-superintendent. The ship was lofty, well lighted and ventilated, and in every respect well adapted for emigrants. The provisions were good and abundant. The Master and Officers of the ship were kind and attentive to the emigrants. The people expressed themselves satisfied and grateful for the treatment which they had received; and the Surgeon-superintendent appeared to have performed his duties efficiently. Eleven deaths in this ship, being upwards of three per cent on the number embarked, is a ratio of mortality very much greater than the usual average. On perusing the journal of the Surgeon-superintendent, it appears that, just before entering the northern tropics, the weather was very wet and stormy producing inflammatory colds, and that the sudden transition to tropical heat produced low fever and diarrhoea, which diseases carried off the only four adults who died; but sickness was most prevalent throughout the ship. When the state of the weather produces such effects among adults, it is not wonderful that young children, with more feeble vital powers, should suffer in a greater ratio. The Surgeon-superintendent of this ship complains that the fire-engine sent on board by the contractors was perfectly useless, as the machinery broke like glass after the first or second trial at sea. The immigrants by this ship were all nominated. The proportions from the three kingdoms were as follows—: England 121, Ireland 215 ; In this as in almost all other ships carrying nominated emigrants there were several old people who did not appear to be able by their own labor to support themselves for any long period.

GRG 35/48/2 Crown lands and Immigrant ships papers Surgeon Superintendent report. " Deaths on the voyage"
Name	Age	Date of Death	Cause of Death	Where buried
Ames, James (Ames, Jane)	inf	November 11th, 1857	Teething	at sea
Allen, Walter	inf	November 15th, 1857	Teething	at sea
Carlton, William	1	November 18th, 1857	Teething	at sea
Allen, Alfred	inf	November 23rd, 1857	Teething and diarrhoea	at sea
French, Stephen	20	November 20th, 1857	Fever	at sea
O'Neil, Edward	23	November 30th, 1857	Fever	at sea
Mayham, Georgina (Mayhew)	14	December 1st, 1857	Diarrhoea	at sea
McMahon, Margaret	20	December 4th, 1857	Fever	at sea
Fitzgerald, Jarret	8	December 12th, 1857	Marasmus	at sea
Willis, Eliza (Wallis)	3	January 22nd, 1858	Convulsions	at sea
Moyses, John	3	January 29th, 1858	Marasmus	at sea

Surgeon Superintendent Report "Births on Board"
Name of Mother		Date of Birth	Sex of Infant
McMahon, Mary		December 6th, 1857	male
Willshire, Jane		December 11th, 1857	female
Moyses, Thomasine		December 30th, 1857	female

note: where maiden name of wife is indicated, it has been included in the given name column within ( ) ; the passenger list comprises three sections arranged alphabetically, i families, ii single men, iii single women & children ; transcriber notes in italics

Sources: State Library South Australia, official passenger lists, mainly of immigrants arriving in South Australia under United Kingdom assisted passage schemes, 1847-1886 GRG 35/48a (formely ACC 313); Sydney Shipping Gazette; South Australian Register; The South Australian Government Gazette; GRG 35/48/2 Crown lands and Immigrant ships papers; Biographical index SA 1836-1885 (the B-index column indicates individuals who may be found in that index, with corresponding reference number for further research) ; FreeBMD ; 1851 UK census'

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