Voyages Transporting Convicts To Western Australia
This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported convicts to Western Australia during its time as a penal colony between 1850 and 1868.
Ship | Origin | Arrival | Number of convicts |
---|---|---|---|
Scindian | Portsmouth | 1 June 1850 | 75 |
Hashemy | Portland | 25 October 1850 | 100 |
Mermaid | Portsmouth | 13 May 1851 | 208 |
Pyrenees | Torbay | 28 June 1851 | 293 |
Minden | Plymouth | 14 October 1851 | 301 |
Marion | Portland | 2 November 1851 | 279 |
William Jardine | Plymouth | 1 August 1852 | 212 |
Dudbrook | Plymouth | 7 February 1853 | 228 |
Pyrenees | Torbay | 30 April 1853 | 293 |
Robert Small | London | 19 August 1853 | 303 |
Phoebe Dunbar | Kingstown | 30 August 1853 | 285 |
General Godwin | Calcutta | 28 March 1854 | 15 |
Sea Park | London | 5 April 1854 | 304 |
Ramillies | London | 7 August 1854 | 277 |
Guide | Calcutta | 9 January 1855 | 6 |
Stag | London | 23 May 1855 | 224 |
Adelaide | Portland | 18 July 1855 | 259 |
William Hammond | Plymouth | 29 March 1856 | 249 |
Runnymede | Plymouth | 7 September 1856 | 248 |
Clara | London | 3 July 1857 | 262 |
City of Palaces | Singapore | 8 August 1857 | 4 |
Nile | Plymouth | 1 January 1858 | 270 |
Caducius | Bombay | 5 February 1858 | 1 |
Lord Raglan | Plymouth | 1 June 1858 | 268 |
Albeura | Calcutta | 28 October 1858 | 11 |
Edwin Fox | Plymouth | 20 November 1858 | 280 |
Sultana | Plymouth | 19 August 1859 | 224 |
Frances | Madras | 19 November 1859 | 1 |
Palmerston | Portland | 11 February 1861 | 293 |
Lincelles | Portland | 28 January 1862 | 304 |
Norwood | Portland | 9 June 1862 | 290 |
York | Portland | 31 December 1862 | 299 |
Merchantman | London | 14 February 1863 | 191 |
Clyde | Portland | 29 May 1863 | 320 |
Lord Dalhousie | Portland | 28 December 1863 | 270 |
Clara | London | 13 April 1864 | 301 |
Merchantman | Portland | 12 September 1864 | 257 |
Racehorse | Portland | 10 August 1865 | 278 |
Vimeira | Portland | 22 December 1865 | 278 |
Belgravia | Portland | 4 July 1866 | 276 |
Corona | Portland | 22 December 1866 | 305 |
Norwood | Portland | 13 July 1867 | 253 |
Hougoumont | London | 9 January 1868 | 279 |
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