Caduceus (ship)

Caduceus (1854–1874) was a 1106 ton merchant ship, built in 1854 at Union Dock,[1] Limehouse, London by shipwrights Fletcher Son & Fearnall, which also transported settlers to New Zealand and Australia.

In the Great Storm of 1854, on 14 November, the ship was badly damaged on the Black Sea, losing all three masts.

The hull of the Caduceus was relatively intact and was towed by the steamer Melbourne, which had lost two masts, down the Bosporus and up the Golden Horn for repair.

The convict, Patrick Devlin, was a 31-year-old soldier who had been convicted of a breach of articles of war by court-martial in Hyderabad State in December 1855, and sentenced to 14 years' transportation.

Between 1859 and 1872 Caduceus made five voyages bringing settlers from London, England to Auckland, New Zealand.