Family: James MCKIM / Elizabeth HALL

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Arrival in Australia of McKinn (McKimm) family from Ireland.

Name SMYRNA
Construction IRON with 2 decks
Date 1876
Official Number 70457
Launched in July 1876
Poop 48' long and Forecastle 42' Long
Information from Ships' Register:
Port No. 15 in 1876; Sailing Ship
2 decks, 3 masts, rigged as a ship, round stern, clench build, no gallery, billet head, iron framework.
Length from fore part of stern to aft side of head of sternpost 232' and 3 tenths.
Main breadth to outside of planking or plating 38' 0.5 tenths.
Depth in hold from tonnage deck to ceiling amidships 22' 2.5 tenths.
Tonnage under tonnage deck: 1185.22 ton
Forecastle: 56.63 ton
Poop: 107.92 ton
Roundhouse: 22.37 ton
TOTAL: 1372.14 ton
Deduction for crew spaces: 67.54 ton
REGISTER TONNAGE: 1304.60 ton

WRECKED NEEDLES, ISLE OF WIGHT, 28 APRIL 1888:
SMYRNA was run into by the steamer MOTO on 28 April 1888, during a thick fog off the Isle of Wight, when outward bound to Sydney and sank with Captain Taylor and 11 crew. 17 survivors were rescued by the steamship MOTO and landed at Southampton.

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