Thanks for that link, Dead Horse. Perhaps some additional background on both the ship "Julia Ann" and her captain, BF Pond would be interesting. Pond came to California from New York in the Gold Rush of 1849, arriving in San Francisco on April 1, 1849. Here is an account of his time in the gold fields.

http://oldwww.ballarat.edu.au/sovhill/gold150/caligold.htm

In 1852, Pond and several other business partners bought the "Julia Ann" for "about $10,000". She was "a new vessel, recently arrived from Boston on her first voyage, with passengers, never having carried a cargo, clipper built and staunch...."(Pond Memoirs) Here is a record of her arrival from New York on August 13, 1852.

http://books.google.com/books?id=b4cEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA624&dq=the+bark+%22Julia+Ann%22&lr=&cd=6#v=onepage&q=the%20bark%20%22Julia%20

According to John Devitry-Smith, in his article of 1989 on "The Wreck of the Julia Ann", in footnote 4, "The Julia Ann was a three-masted bark built with one deck, a square stern, and a billethead. It had been built at Robbinston, Maine, in 1851 and its home port was San Francisco (Conway Soone: Ships, Saints, and Mariners, 124-25).

It is important to not confuse Pond's "Julia Ann" with another "Julia Ann" that arrived in San Francisco on August 22, 1841, under the command of William Leidesdorff.

http://www.maritimeheritage.org/captains/leidesdorffWilliamA.html

On October 13, 1852, just after purchasing the "Julia Ann", Pond set out on a shake down cruise to Valparaiso, Chile, with a Captain Staples in charge. On this journey he "studied navigation, the use of the sextant, daily locality of the vessel, dead reckoning, &c., &c."(Pond Memoirs) It was upon returning from this voyage that the ship was outfitted for its first trip to Australia.