List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia

Between 1842 and 1849, 234 juvenile offenders were transported to the Colony of Western Australia on seven convict ships. From 1850 to 1868, over 9,000 convicts were transported to the colony on 43 convict ship voyages. Western Australia was classed as a full-fledged penal colony in 1850.

Voyages transporting Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia

Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas", but pardoned on arrival at their destination on the conditions that they be "apprenticed" to local employers, and that they not return to England during the original term of their sentence. Between 1842 and 1849, Western Australia accepted 234 Parkhurst apprentices, all males aged between 10 and 21. As Western Australia was not then a penal colony, contemporary documents studiously avoided referring to the prisoners as "convicts", and the ships that brought them were not officially recognised as convict ships there. English records were not so reticent, classing as convict ships the seven ships that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.

This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.

ShipArrivalNumber of
Parkhurst apprentices
Simon TaylorAugust 184218
ShepherdOctober 184328
HalifaxDecember 184418
CumberlandJanuary 184616
OrientMarch 184851
AmeerFebruary 184950
MaryOctober 184953

Voyages transporting convicts to Western Australia

News clipping from the Perth Gazette and West Australian Times, 17 January 1868, announcing the arrival of Hougoumont in Fremantle

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.

ShipOriginArrivalNumber of convicts
ScindianPortsmouth1 June 185075
HashemyPortland25 October 1850100
MermaidPortsmouth13 May 1851208
Pyrenees[1]Torbay28 June 1851293
MindenPlymouth14 October 1851301
MarionPortland2 November 1851279
William JardinePlymouth1 August 1852212
DudbrookPlymouth7 February 1853228
PyreneesTorbay30 April 1853293
Robert SmallLondon19 August 1853303
Phoebe DunbarKingstown30 August 1853285
General GodwinCalcutta28 March 185415
Sea ParkLondon5 April 1854304
RamilliesLondon7 August 1854277
GuideCalcutta9 January 18556
StagLondon23 May 1855224
AdelaidePortland18 July 1855259
William HammondPlymouth29 March 1856249
RunnymedePlymouth7 September 1856248
ClaraLondon3 July 1857262
City of PalacesSingapore8 August 18574
NilePlymouth1 January 1858270
CaduciusBombay5 February 18581
Lord RaglanPlymouth1 June 1858268
AlbueraCalcutta28 October 185811
Edwin FoxPlymouth20 November 1858280
SultanaPlymouth19 August 1859224
FrancesMadras19 November 18591
PalmerstonPortland11 February 1861293
LincellesPortland28 January 1862304
NorwoodPortland9 June 1862290
YorkPortland31 December 1862299
MerchantmanLondon[2]14 February 1863191
ClydePortland29 May 1863320
Lord DalhousiePortland28 December 1863270
ClaraLondon13 April 1864301
MerchantmanPortland12 September 1864257
RacehorsePortland10 August 1865278
VimeiraPortland22 December 1865278
BelgraviaPortland4 July 1866276
CoronaPortland22 December 1866305
NorwoodPortland13 July 1867253
HougoumontLondon9 January 1868279

See also

Notes

  1. "Shipping Intelligence". The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News. 4 July 1851. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  2. Merchantman is officially listed as sailing from London via Bermuda, but its convicts were boarded at Bermuda not London.

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