Mimosa had already seen many years of service by the time it transported Welsh emigrants to
Argentine Patagonia, South America. The ship was built in 1853 at Hall's shipyard in
Aberdeen. Although the ship wasn't designed to carry passengers, it was converted for that purpose before the voyage. The cost of fitting, provisioning and chartering the ship was £2,500 and the passengers paid £12 per adult or £6 per child for the journey. Before the voyage, the emigrants assembled at various points, not always their places of origin, to prepare for the journey, including
Aberdare,
Birkenhead, and
Mountain Ash.
Mimosa sailed from
Liverpool, England on 28 May 1865 to
Argentina,
South America with a group of about 153 passengers with Captain George Pepperell and a crew of 18. The ship's surgeon for the voyage was Thomas Greene, an Irishman from
Kildare. They landed on 28 July 1865 and named their landing site
Porth Madryn. They were met by Edwyn Cynrig Roberts and
Lewis Jones who had already arrived in Argentina in June 1865 to prepare for the arrival of the main body of settlers. Their aim was to establish a Welsh colony which would preserve the Welsh language and culture. The proposed site for the colony was in the
Chubut River valley. On 15 September 1865 the first town in the Chubut colony was named
Rawson after Guillermo Rawson (1821–1890), Argentine Minister of the Interior, who supported the Welsh settlement in Argentina, and the settlers went on to build the settlements at
Gaiman and
Trelew and several other. ==Welsh emigrants aboard
Mimosa==