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ARRIVAL OF THE ALIWAL Natal Witness December 14 1849

This vessel is commemorated in the Aliwal Shoal, a hazardous reef south of Durban which supposedly was first noted from her deck.
[Read below.]

Under Captain ANDERSON this 425 ton ship carried 117 emigrants, arriving at Natal on 14 December 1849. She successfully rode out two gales while at anchor in the roadstead, another indication that these settler voyages weren't over until the dangers of the actual arrival in port had been circumvented.

MORELAND's iron house was brought to Natal by the Aliwal. Her passengers included the WILLSON brothers, James PATULLO, the LUMSDENS, William POYNTON and his family, Charles SPRADBROW and John VOYSEY and his wife.

LIST OF PASSENGERS BY THE ALIWAL
Dec 10th, arrived the Aliwal, 425 tons, Capt James Anderson, 80 days from London, GC Cato, Agent.

PASSENGERS
Cabin
Mr John Edmonton and family
Messrs
Henry Marillier
John Savory

Intermediate and Steerage
JE Whitehurst
G Marons and wife
CH Woodward
T Downs
Ann Cannon
Catherine, Alfred and Sidney Virtue
John Cheeseborough and family
David Gray and family
R Calder and family
GJ Leathers and family
William Read
Charles Johnston
William Monro
Archibald Gibson
Henry Goodwin and wife
John Palmer and family
J Latchford
J Lumsden and family
H Elan and wife
JB Rose
J Voysey and wife
Wilson Wood and family
JH Gifford
T Twyford
G Haigh
G Balderson
W Sowell
G and W Wilson
RB Struthers
J Frazer
Elizabeth Carpenter
Mary Williamson
David Hewitson
WS Robinson
James Patrillo
Andrew Whittle
Benjamin Smart
Alfred Pace
Peter Berry and wife
Emery Roberts (Robarts) and family
Robert Spencer and family
H Ansell
C Spreadborough and family
Thomas Wilson
Matthew Paterson
Andrew Fender
James Bell
W Slack
John Smith
Henry Rhode
Robert Morison
Charles Riley
W Poynton
George Bruce
W Edwards and family
William Nesbit
James Perrin
In all 117 persons.

The next vessel, the "King William," was to sail on the 20th October.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

SAILED
23rd Feb - Lara Schr, G Claydon, with cattle for Mauritius, passed out by the new channel.

IN PORT
Hannah, Whetherall, for Cape Town, H Jargal, Agent.

To the Editor of the Natal Witness
Sir,
In the Natal Witness of Jan 18th is an extract of a letter from Captain Anderson of the Barque Aliwal, giving information of a shoal or rock near the coast about 30 miles SW of Natal. From my own observations I can testify to the correctness of Capt. A's statement, as I have often seen from my residence at Ifumi, a line of heavy breakers apparently a mile in length, and about two miles from the shore. I cannot give the locality of the rock or shoal better than by saying it appears from the land to be 3 or 4 miles SW of the Umkomazi River. The breakers, however, are not always seen, in nine days out of ten, or perhaps in nineteen out of twenty, the sea appears smooth, and a vessel might pass near the place and no one on board suspect the danger. The breakers commonly appear after a strong southerly wind, and perhaps they may also be affected more of less by the state of the tide.
Yours truly,
JC Bryant.
Feb 12th, 1850.