Starting from London/Sheerness on 24 October 1830 under the command of Robert Chrystie and with surgeon John Osborne, the Red Rover left Portsmouth on 18 November and arrived in HobartTown on 26 March 1831 with 166 male prisoners.
Later as one of the famed female emigrant ships the Red Rover departed London in 1832, leaving Cork on 10 April. She carried merchandise and 202 young ladies, aged 16-24, bound for the colonies. Amongst these was Martha Serjeant, a 23 year old house servant (later Martha Lynch, m. Henry Talbott). The Red Rover arrived in Sydney on 10 August 1832.
The Red Rover was bound from London and Plymouth for Sydney with 70 cabin passengers and general cargo when she ran aground at Port Praya on 24 April 1839. Luckily the barque Ferguson was nearby on the same route, and her boats saved all crew and passengers from the Red Rover, the mail and some of the general cargo. Only nine of the Red Rover's passengers could be taken onward aboard the Ferguson; the remainder stayed on St Jago awhile - some may have returned to England, others probably secured later passage to Australia.
There was another Red Rover, a barque of 254 tons (and length 97.7', breadth 246.01', depth 11.1') . She was laid down in early September 1829 by the Howrah Dock Company and launched into the Hooghly River in on 12 December. She was designed and chiefly owned by Captain W Clifton until 1846 when she was bought by Jardine, Matheson & Co. The first of the opium clippers, she entered the trade in 1830, and was one of the longest lived and most successful until her loss in the late 1860s or early 1870s. She was flush-decked, with a light moveable platform below the maindeck. In 1832 and 1833 the Red Rover opened a new passage from Singapore to Canton against the northeast monsoon, reducing the voyage from 3-4 months via the easterly Pitt's Passage, to just twenty days.
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