About the book
In August 1852 the Ticonderoga left Liverpool for Port Phillip with nearly eight hundred emigrants, most of them Highland Scots bound for the goldfields. Typhus broke out within weeks. By the time she reached the Heads in November around a hundred had died and hundreds more were sick, and the ship was turned away to a hastily improvised quarantine station at Point Nepean, where many more died.
Michael Veitch, the broadcaster and writer, came to the story through his own family: his great-great-grandfather James William Henry Veitch was the ship's assistant surgeon, and met his future wife among the passengers.
Notes
To come.