LIGHTNING
Statement of Significance
The Lightning is historically significant for being one of the fastest wooden ships ever built, the first clipper built in the USA for British owners and being the worst shipping disaster in Geelong's history. It spent its whole career carrying cargo and immigrants from England to Australia.
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Denise Robinson-Hurst • 06/08/18
1854 - The wedding certificate of my Great Great Grandfather Blakiston Robinson and Isabella Nicol August 1854, shows the witness to their wedding at St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne was James Nicol Forbes. They came to Melbourne on The Lightning in 1854.