Sketch by Ross Shardlow

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The barque Parmelia was built in Quebec, Canada in 1825, 117 feet long and of 443 tons, and was hired to transport Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling and the first group of free settlers to Swan River to establish a colony there in 1829.

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Escorted by HMS Sulphur she left England early in February 1829 and hove off Garden Island on the 31st May 1829