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1)  Try the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) site at http://www.immigrantships.net/ .  If you are in luck, some hard-working volunteer will have transcribed your passenger list already so that it can be searched on the Internet.  Please note that lots of the Australian lists are only partial, transcribed by a volunteer who was focused on immigrants who stayed in Western Australia.  The wonderful ISTG volunteers are working on that.

2) Use the National Archives of Australia's RecordSearch at http://naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx .  You should be able to find what you are after if you enter as a Guest user.  On the next General search page, enter <(ship name) nominal roll> in the Keywords (or name) pane.

(Nominal roll is still the Australian Department of Immigration's term for "passenger list"--it refers specifically to the immigrants on a particular voyage or flight, as opposed to the other passengers.)

If you are in real luck, the Results page will show that some kind person has paid already to have the list for your voyage digitised.  You can read it on your computer and print it on your own printer.

If that hasn't happened already, consider being the kind person who pays ($16.50) to have your "nominal roll" digitised.  It will be less expensive than paying for a photocopy ($25.00).

To get a copy, click on the highlighted blue link in the record that interests you.  Clicking will take you to a page which gives details for that particular record.  On the lower left you should find a Request copy button.

Click on the Request copy button and follow the instructions...

Consider posting to the Fifth Fleet Forum about your ship to let other readers know that you are having your passenger list digitised.

The digital copy can be the starting point for an ISTG transcriber--but consider becoming that transcriber yourself.  The reward, apart from the warm feeling of doing good, is that the ISTG can leave a message on your transcription telling others interested in the same voyage how to contact you.  Networking!  More details on the ISTG Web site or contact the ISTG through me <tundern@yahoo.com.au>.

Thank you!