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The Solway was the first ship carrying a significant number of German speakers to South Australia.
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|Ship owner=Graham & Co.
|Ship country=England
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|Ship name= ''Solway''
|Ship namesake= Solway Firth in Scotland
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|Ship builder= John Storey
|Ship operator= Graham & Co.
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|Ship laid down=1829 Monkwearmouth Shore, Sunderland, England
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|Ship out of service= 21 December 1837
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|Ship fate=Wrecked, Encounter Bay, South Australia
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|Ship tonnage=337-tons 
|Ship length=103'2"
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==Construction and service==
The Solway was constructed in the shipyards of John Storey, located at Sand Point, North Sands, Monkwearmouth Shore. Storey had arrived in Monkwearmouth early in his life and quickly progressed from making rope and sails to ship-building and owning ships plying the timber trade from Canada. His success was enough that he was able to by the local manor house and estate, although after retiring his holdings were affected by various economic pressures and he returned to his house in Church Street in the town.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=John |author-link= |date=1894 |title=Recollections of Old Monkwearmouth: Some of the "Men of Mark" in olden times and their surroundings |url=https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Old_Monkwearmouth |location=Monkwearmouth |publisher= |page= |isbn=}}</ref> 


==End of service==
On the 21st of December 1837, she broke moorings and was wrecked during a storm in Rosetta Harbour, Encounter Bay.

==Voyages==
===1837===
The Solway made one migration voyage to South Australia, leaving Hamburg on 9th July 1837 and arriving at Port Adelaide, having stopped at Kangaroo Island first. The majority of the German migrants were indentured to the South Australia Company and disembarked on Kangaroo Island to work for the Company.

===== Passenger List =====
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |'''Names'''
! rowspan="2" |'''Age'''
! rowspan="2" |'''Occupation'''
! rowspan="2" |'''Birthplace'''
|-
!'''Last'''
!'''Given'''
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Families'''
|-
|Bremer
|Lanritz
|29
|Baker
| -
|-
|
|wife
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|child
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|child
|n/a
|
|
|-
|Christian
|Johann Gottlieb
|29
|Farmer
|Prussia
|-
|
|Karoline
|21
|
|
|-
|
|Johann Gottlieb
|inf
|
|
|-
|Debus
|Johann Christian Philip
|34
|Carpenter
| -
|-
|
|wife
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|child
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|child
|n/a
|
|
|-
|Fortsch
|Conrad
|31
|Agriculturalist
|Bavaria
|-
|
|Mary (Hegerson)
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|child
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|child
|n/a
|
|
|-
|Grunhagen
|unknown
|n/a
|former Police Officer (village Mayor?)
|Polchow
|-
|
|Auguste (Triglaff)
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|son
|8
|
|
|-
|
|son
|6
|
|
|-
|
|son
|5
|
|
|-
|Kleeman
|Friedrich Wilhelm
|39
|Farmer
|Raddack, Prussia
|-
|
|Maria (Helm)
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|August Wilhelm
|9
|
|
|-
|
|Heinrich Ferdinand
|7
|
|
|-
|
|Wilhelmine Friedericke
|5
|
|
|-
|
|Emilie Albertina Ernestine
|3
|
|
|-
|Milde
|Wilhelm
|38
|Baker
|Hamburg
|-
|
|Catherina Elisabeth (Steffens)
|30
|
|
|-
|
|Elise Charlotte Wilhelmine
|inf
|
|
|-
|Neander
|Wilhelm Gottlieb
|31
|Carpenter
| -
|-
|
|Mary
|n/a
|
|
|-
|
|Louis
|10
|
|
|-
|
|Mark
|3
|
|
|-
|
|Amelia
|n/a
|
|
|-
|Pipkorn
|David
|31
|Agr. Labourer
|Raddack
|-
|
|Dorothea (Westphal)
|22
|
|
|-
|Wallschlager
|Christian Friedrich
|26
|Agriculturalist
|Schnatow
|-
|
|Maria (Fährmann)
|34
|
|
|-
|
|Gottlieb
|7
|
|
|-
|
|Hannah Susannah
|5
|
|
|-
|
|Manasseh
|3
|
|
|-
|
|child?
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="5" |Single men
|-
|Bagans
|Johann Frederick
|n/a
|Agriculturalist
| -
|-
|Bauer
|Carl Leonard Friedrich
|29
|Baker
|Baden, Prussia
|-
|Beyerkoehler
|Johann Georg
|n/a
|Shoemaker
| -
|-
|Dies / Diese
|Leonard
|27
|Labourer
| -
|-
|Drebing / Diebing
|August Heinrich
|36
|Labourer
| -
|-
|Drese / Dress
|Louis
|n/a
|Labourer
| -
|-
|Fleim / Flem
|Georg
|29
|Agriculturalist
| -
|-
|Gramp
|Johann
|18
|Baker / Vigneron
|Bavaria
|-
|-
|Hanson
|Louis
|24
| -
|Heligoland
|-
|Hauser
|Wilhelm Jacob
|23
|Agriculturalist
| -
|-
|Hutsch
|K.
|n/a
|Labourer
| -
|-
|Kramer
|Ludwig
|33
|Agriculturalist
| -
|-
|Lage
|Frederick (David)
|n/a
|Baker
| -
|-
|Oelrich
|Friedrich Hermann Otto
|n/a
|Agriculturalist
| -
|-
|Oppel
|Johann Nicol
|34
|Labourer
| -
|-
|Pfeuffer / Pfeiffer
|Georg Gottlieb
|n/a
|Agriculturalist
| -
|-
|Prophet
|Ulric
|22
| -
| -
|-
|Schmidt
|Sebastian Anthony
|24
|Agriculturalist
| -
|-
|Sturn
|Frederick Christian
|24
| -
| -
|-
|Theilmann
|Adolph Ludwig
|24
| -
| -
|-
|Zilm
|Andreas
|50
| -
| -
|-
|Zilm
|Conrad
|18
| -
| -
|-
! colspan="5" |Single women
|-
|Christian
|Wilhelmine Friderike
|23
|
|Schnatow
|-
|Scheaffer
|—
|n/a
|
|Kammin
|-
|
|child
|n/a
|
|
|-
|}

==See also==


==References==

[[Category:1837 voyages]]
[[Category:Migrant ships]]