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Edwin Fox
''Edwin Fox'' is unique in that she is the "only intact hull of a wooden deepwater sailing ship built to British specifications surviving in the world outside the Falkland Islands."〔Norman J. Brouwer (1993) ''International Register of Historic Ships.'' P.212. Second Edition, World Ship Trust. Anthony Nelson, Shropshire, England. ISBN 0 904614 46 8〕 She is the world's second oldest surviving merchant sailing ship 〔Excluding the abandoned and deteriorating wreck at Port Stanley of the barque ''Jhelum,'' built 1849. The American whaler ''Charles W. Morgan'', built in 1841, is the oldest surviving merchant ship.〕 and is also the only surviving ship that transported convicts to Australia. ''Edwin Fox'' carried settlers to both Australia and New Zealand and carried troops in the Crimean War. The ship is dry-docked at The Edwin Fox Maritime Centre at Picton in New Zealand.
==Early history==
She was built of teak in Calcutta in 1853 and her maiden voyage was to London via the Cape of Good Hope. She then went into service in the Crimean War as a troop ship, and later carrying passengers and cargo.
On 14 February 1856 she began her first voyage to Melbourne, Australia, carrying passengers, then moved to trading between Chinese ports. In 1858 she was chartered by the British Government as a convict ship bound for Fremantle, Western Australia.
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