Kindly transcribed and submitted to TheShipsList by Robert Janmaat, Adelaide, from a variety of sources, cited below.
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HMS Hercules, 74 guns, Captain Baynton, from Campbeltown, Scotland 26th December 1852 / Cork, Ireland 14th April 1853, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 26th July 1853. (the following day, HMS Hercules sailed for Melbourne with the remaing 183 passengers, arriving 1st August 1853. On 11th August 1853, she sailed for Hong Kong, via Sydney) (lithograph of Hercules at Campbeltown)

The Highlands & Islands Emigration Society arranged for the emigration of more than 4,000 persons 1852-1854. The original plan for the Hercules passengers, intended that they sail from Portree, Isle of Skye, however, they finally sailed from Campbeltown, in Argyllshire. An outbreak of small-pox and typhus required an extended stay in quarantine at Cork, after which many of the emigrants were assigned to other ships.
This passenger list is of those who disembarked at Port Adelaide. To learn the names and details of those who proceeded to Melbourne, visit these off-site websites, HIES at http://www.angelfire.com/ns/bkeddy/HIES/hercules.html and the Virtual Vault at http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/emigration.htm The websites indicated, also name the emigrants from the original group, of over seven hundred and fifty, who subsequently arrived in Australia aboard other ships.

South Australian Register Wednesday 27 July 1853

Tuesday July 26:— H.M.S. Hercules, Baynton, Commander, from Cork April 14 — and Cape of Good Hope June 21 with 375 Government Emigrants, Edward Nolloth Surgeon-superintendent. Wednesday 27 July:— Names of emigrants per H.M.S. Hercules for Adelaide, arrival reported yesterday........adult deaths:—Ann Maclean, Christina McAskill. One hundred and ninety souls to land. —8th ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1853 ; one birth and two deaths on the passage, Edward Nolloth, surgeon-superintendent.

note: where maiden name of wife is indicated, it has been included in the given name column within ( ) ; the passenger list comprises three sections arranged alphabetically, i families, ii single men, iii single women & children ; transcriber notes in italics ; some single people are listed on the "single" list and with their families, so be aware of duplication.

Sources: State Library South Australia, official passenger lists, mainly of immigrants arriving in South Australia under United Kingdom assisted passage schemes, 1847-1886 GRG 35/48a (formely ACC 313); Sydney Shipping Gazette; South Australian Register; The South Australian Government Gazette; Biographical index SA 1836-1885 (the B-index column indicates individuals who may be found in that index, with corresponding reference number for further research)

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