Transcribed and submitted to TheShipsList by Robert Janmaat, Adelaide, from a variety of sources, cited below.
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ship Thetis, 573 tons, Captain Richard Breckon, from Plymouth 21st May 1854, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 31st August 1854

South Australian Register Friday 1st September 1854
Thursday, August 31st :- the ship Thetis, 573 tons, R. Breckon, Master, from Plymouth May 21st 1854 with 226 Government emigrants..
— 19th ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1854 ; 6 births and 5 deaths on the passage ; Robert Johnston, surgeon-superintendent.

ship Thetis
Arrived on the 31st August, having been one hundred and four days on the voyage ; she brought 227 emigrants; seven births and seven deaths occurred at sea. This vessel, in its present state, is not well adapted for an emigrant ship ; the rigging is old and bad, and there was great leakage throughout the ship on both sides, wetting the bedding and causing great discomfort to the emigrants. I think it wonderful that sickness did not prevail to a much greater extent on board this ship. The people seemed a very eligible class, finding ready employment — and the Surgeon-Superintendent performed his duties very satisfactorily. At the muster, a strange but serious complaint was lodged by four single girls against the Surgeon-Superintendent. On investigating this charge, I found that these four girls were the worst behaved females on board, and it seemed that they had agreed among themselves to make a charge against the Doctor, by way of making the first attack ; but there was abundant evidence that their accusation was utterly untrue.
The South Australian Government Gazette 1866 p. 86
Name	Age	Date of Death	Cause of Death	Where buried
Blackford, William	2	June 17	Measles	at sea
White, Elizabeth	inf	June 21	Convulsions	at sea
Cobblecock, Emma (Cobbledick)	inf	June 22	Convulsions	at sea
Morgan, Mary	3	June 28	Dysentery	at sea
Edmonds, William (Edwards)	1	July 28	Whooping cough	at sea
Bailie, John (Baily)	33	August 20	Organic Disease	at sea
Selway, Sarah	inf	August 24	Pneumonia	at sea

Surgeon Superintendent Report
Name of Mother		Date of Birth	Sex of Infant
Bolitho, Peggy		July 06, 1854	male
Denman, Diane (single mother)		July 09, 1854	male
Wallis, Matilda		August 06, 1854	male
Lanyon, Jane		August 14, 1854	male
White, Ann		August 15, 1854	female
Edwards, Elizabeth		August 25, 1854	female
Davis, Elizabeth		September 03, 1854	male

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

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; GRG 35/48/2 Crown lands and Immigrant ships papers; 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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