Death Ships - Life & Death at Sea in the 19th Century
The only way to get to the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century was by ship. It was a long journey travelling half way around the the world. Most of those who chose to emigrate came in small sailing ships as steerage passengers located beneath the main deck. Its estimated that some one million people came during the century as assisted passengers travelling steerage class. Most of the emigration vessels carried between 250 and 350 passengers crammed together in damp,
