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The Royal Admiral was a timber three-masted barque, registered as 414 tons and built in King's Lynn, England in 1828. .

Royal Admiral first served for trade to India. The ship subsequently sailed to Australia on four occasions carrying convicts, from Portsmouth to Port Jackson in 1830, from Dublin to Port Jackson in 1833 and 1834 and from Woolwich to Hobart Town in 1842.

Royal Admiral also sailed from Falmouth, Cornwall on 26 September 1837 with 112 pioneering settlers bound for Port Adelaide, South Australia, arriving 18 January 1838. A notable passenger on this voyage was Henry Inman who was to become the founding commander of the South Australian Police Force.

Royal Admiral was shipwrecked on the coast of Colaba, India in 1844 with the loss of its cargo.