Category:Migrant ships

Sail plans (3 mast)

Full-rigged ship

Barque

Barquentine

Schooner

Showing three-masted examples, progressing from square sails on each to all fore-and-aft sails on each.

Sail plans (2 mast)

Brig

Brigantine

Schooner

Showing two-masted examples, progressing from square sails on each to all fore-and-aft sails on each.

Ships carrying German migrants to South Australia arrived from both German and non-German ports from 1837 onwards. The main German ports were Bremen (initially) and Hamburg (later), but migrants also left from Dutch, French and German ports on the continent, and from English ports such as London, Portsmouth and Plymouth. While there a small number of Germans living in the City of Adelaide and close surrounds early in the colony's history, it was not until the mid 1840s and the increase in migration from the western and northern German nations that greater numbers arrived and settled in the city.