Passenger arrivals on the Natal, departures on the Carisbrook 1905

Natal Witness 18 Feb 1905

Passengers to Natal: Eveline, Prince Alfred, Trader, Shakspeare 1862

Arrivals and Departures at Natal July 1862

Passengers to Natal: Medusa, Silvery Wave, Tirsah 1863

October 1863, Medusa, Silvery Wave and Tirsah arrivals, 

also departure of the Norman.

Passenger lists to Natal 1889: Duart Castle, USS African

Passenger Lists Natal: Iris 1852

Natal Witness 2 January 1852

SHIPPING COMMERCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

SAILED

Natal Witness 2 January 1852

Kellermont, Captain Shaw, to Port Elizabeth

Rosebud, Captain A. Murison, to Cape Town

INSIDE

Gem, J. Proudfoot, agent

Devonian, E. P. Lamport, agent

ARRIVED

Iris, Captain Dobson. 

The following is a List of the Passengers:

CABIN

Surgeon - Mr. J. H. H. Lewellin, wife, 3 children

Messrs. G. T. and Henry Lee

Mr. Wm. Henry Middleton and wife

Mr. Vivian

Mr. Charles Thomas Wheelwright

Miss Shuttleworth

INTERMEDIATE

Miss Sophia Hawkins

Mr. Thomas Cope and wife

Mr Wm. Hill Allen

Mr. J. Grant

Mr. T. Grant

Mr. E. Holland, wife, and 6 children

Mr. J. C. Slatter, wife, and 3 children

Mr. Wm. Slatter, and son

Mr. Wm. Bullock, and 5 children

Mr. West, wife, and 4 children

Mr. Simmons

Mr. Martin

Mr. Withington, wife, and 2 children

Mr. Jeremiah Wilson

Mr. Martin Hirsch

Mr. Moritz Hirsch

Mr. Samuel Parish

Mr. George Gain

Total - 44 (56 listed, including all the children)

Early settler dwellings at Port Natal:
wattle and daub under thatch

For more on 1850s lifestyle at Natal enter 'Eliza Feilden' in the search facility.

Passenger lists Umzumbi and Carisbrook to Natal 1905

From The Natal Witness 18 February 1905 
PASSENGERS ARRIVING:
The following are the passengers from England by the Natal Direct Liner, SS Umzumbi, which arrived on Thursday.
Mr and Mrs JM Allan Hay
Miss Dorothy Allan Hay
Master Edward Allan Hay
and maid
Mrs Landon
Mrs Pope
infant and maid
Miss Farley
Miss Hollins
Miss G Hollins
Miss Eaton
Mr AO Jones
Mr Clement Wallis
Mr SC Lambert
Mr GM Launder

PASSENGERS DEPARTING:
The following is the list of passengers who left Durban by the Carisbrook Castle on Thursday.
For East London:
Messrs
Harmer
DK Sloan
AE Forrest
Miss D Snook
Miss Barnes
Messrs CF Evans
AJ Crisp
Mrs W Hay
Miss Hay
Mr and Mrs F Seeker
Messrs
PJ Cromhout
PG Braithwaite
W Taylor
GP Coote
WH Baker
Beaumann
Miss Forbes
Messrs
GB Russell
G Ellis
FD Chiole
Mrs J Chiole and child
Mr B Levanos
For Algoa Bay:
Miss S Morris
Mr WS Sholl
M. de Gruyter
Messrs
G Hall
FM Osmond
C Wallis
E Pickard
H Landers
M Fish

For Cape Town:
Mr AE Godbold
Mrs Powell
Mmes
M Irvine
L Dawson
Capt PC Bam
Messrs
PJ de Wet
B Levin
Mr and Mrs CR Evans
Messrs
JP Beldon
JG Wilson
EA Greemen
HJ Shaw
J Cooke
JC Peats
J Paterson
Mr and Mrs Leonard and child
Mr and Mrs Miller and 4 children
Messrs
K Pringle
JG Midgley
WF Johnstone
H Boyd
Miss E Doidge
Mrs AG Bell and 2 children
Messrs
AF Brokensha
HC Smith
M Amodes
O Lan....
J de Leur
J Steele
J Scott
Miss G Scott
Messrs
S Lion
J Denham
LJ Hall
Dr Irvenson
Messrs
CG Rose
S Benjamin
JT Keene
Mr and Mrs P Hamilton
Messrs
FP Carne
GE Wand
J Marens
J Wittles
Mrs J Wittles and 2 children
Mr JC Smith
For Southampton:
Messrs
J Hunter
NP Dalziel
W Bourn
WW Parish
J Cadzow
JB Cranston
Dr and Mrs Prentice and child
Messrs
GT and BB Dimmock
H Casson
H Williams
A Molver

Ships named Natal

In 1852 the General Screw Steamship Company, which already ran a mail service between England and South Africa, obtained the contract for carrying mails between Cape Town and Natal, with coastal stops. Two years later, in March 1854, the Natal, of 680 tons burthen, put in her first appearance on this route. The Natal Mercury 12 April 1854 described her as ‘a remarkably fine vessel, and besides having capacity for a large cargo … she possesses ample and elegant accommodation for passengers’. Her commander was Captain LOWEN.

She was not long seen in South African waters, however, as the General Screw Company withdrew from the Cape, and disappeared altogether in 1857. The Natal and her sister ship, the Cape of Good Hope, returned to England. Later, the Natal was chartered to the French Government, and finally wrecked on the Spanish coast in March 1855 on her way to the Crimea.

Ship arrivals and departures at Natal for year
ending October 1866. Several of the ships mentioned in
this post appear listed.

The Union-Castle Line coaster, also named Natal, was built in 1866, ten years after her namesake’s demise. This new ship, of 618 tons, was designed so as to be able to cross the notorious Bar at Durban’s harbour entrance, no matter what tide was running. Her career began inauspiciously when her captain, RIDSDALE, fell overboard and drowned during a voyage to Cape Town.  Transferred to the Zanzibar Line in 1873, the Natal was first overhauled and painted yellow, after which she went on a cruise to Saldanha Bay carrying some distinguished passengers among whom was Sir John MOLTENO, the Cape Premier.

This Natal had a varied career, including some years in the Australian coastal trade; subsequently she had Siamese owners, before being sold to a Dutch East Indian company, who renamed her Srie Bandjar.  A ship with an identity crisis, she later became the Libertas and then the Alava, under Spanish ownership.  In 1905 she was wrecked in the Philippine Islands.

Natal Star was among Rennie's Aberdeen Clippers.
Advertisement 1867.

There was yet another Natal: not to be confused with either of the above, this was a sailing vessel, one of Scottish shipowner John T Rennie’s ‘Aberdeen Direct’ clippers. The first of this line to sail the direct route from England to Natal was L’Imperatrice Eugenie, departing November 1858 and arriving at Durban on January 21 1859. It was such a successful venture that Rennie had further ships built specifically for the Natal direct route; they were barques of under 500 tons, of beautiful proportions, and included the Prince Alfred, Tugela, Transvaal, Natal, Quathlamba and Maritzburg.  One of Rennie’s clippers on the same route was named Natal Star.

A three-masted schooner of 216 tons, also named Natal, was reported in The Natal Mercury as arriving from London on October 5 1862, under Captain SPENCE, with about 15 passengers; her agent was J BROWN. This may have been a private charter.

The Cape and Merchants’ Line had a steamer called the Natal Merchant, about 1300 tons, in the 1880s. And, in 1865 there was a coaster called Natalian operating between the Cape and Natal as part of the Diamond Line – a company whose light flickered briefly and was extinguished in 1867.

Passengers to Natal: Danube July 1880

On 17 July 1880 the Natal Witness reported the arrival on 14 July of U.R.M.S. Danube, of Southampton, 2,200 tons, Draper R.N.R., from Cape and intermediate ports, with passengers and a general cargo.

Passengers for Natal:
Mrs and Miss Ayliff
Mr Curry

Passengers arrived on the Danube, 14 July 1880

Rev. Otto Witt
Messrs
Wynn
Williams
Driver
Mr and Mrs Dentzelmann
Miss and Master Dentzelmann and maid
Rev. and Mrs Slade and four children
Miss Bester
Mrs Schroeder and two Misses Schroeder
Mrs Narren and infant
Mr, Mrs and Miss Jurgens
Mrs Muller
Miss Schiewger
Miss Becket
Miss Girtman
Miss Loose
Miss Johannes
Miss Branmer
Miss Schulz
Miss Henry
Miss Walsh
Messrs
Hooper
Hicklan
Wright
Whittrock
Deppe
Kersel
Holmer
Roderwald
Behrens
Wortinan
Capt. Brown
Messrs
Kent
Sivenson
Behrens
Beighind
Norren
Nelson
Anderson
Wimdrure
Haines
Miller
Schuze
Ragterman
Simmonson
Hansen
Sholston
Tapton
Davidson
Bagnell
Mr and Mrs Bruggeman
two Masters Bruggeman
and two native boys

- E. Baynton, agent.