A convict ship was any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their...

the site of a penal colony, and in 1787, the First Fleet of eleven convict ships set sail for Botany Bay, arriving on 20 January 1788 to found Sydney...

A prison ship, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war...

309 days to reach Port Jackson, one of the slowest journeys made by a convict ship. One reason was that she called at Tenerife and St Jago, and spent forty-five...

the vessels concerned simply transferred convicts from Port Jackson. Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075....

Thames at an area still known as "Convict Bay", at St. George's town. In 1787, the First Fleet, a group of convict ships departed from England to establish...

refitted as a museum ship to travel the world advertising the perceived horrors of the convict era. Although never a convict ship, Success was billed as...

November 1842. "SHIP NEWS. 26 August 1846, Morning Post (London), issue 22692. (1846), LR Seq.№B244. Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son...

The Convict crisis, also known as the "Anti-convict demonstrations" or "Anti-convict agitation" or "Cape Town anti-convict petition", was a period of civil...

1814, the convict ship Surry arrived in Sydney Harbour from England. Forty-six people had died of typhoid during the voyage, including 36 convicts, and the...

exploration from 1791 to 1795. She was converted to a bomb vessel in 1799, a convict ship in 1818 and was broken up in 1834. HMS Discovery (1800) was a survey...

term convict ship. A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea, whereas convict ships are seaworthy vessels that transport convicted felons...

(1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075. Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society...

1868, 9,721 convicts were transported to Western Australia on 43 convict ship voyages. Transportation ceased in 1868, at which time convicts outnumbered...

Isabella was a merchant ship built on the Thames, England, and launched in 1818. She made six voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to...

Guide was a convict ship that transported six convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1855. It arrived in Fremantle on 9 January...

Frances was a convict ship that transported a single convict from Madras, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1859. The convict, Patrick McDonald...

Virginia Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia Surry (1811 ship), the first convict ship to be quarantined in Australia Surry, neologism found in Laura...

hulked as convict ship Woolwich 1848, burnt and broken up 1857 Hercules 74 (1815) – troopship 1838, emigrant ship 1852, hulked as army depot ship Hong Kong...

(1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075. Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society...

Hougoumont, Hougomont, or variation may also refer to: Hougoumont (ship), a convict ship; Hougomont (barque), a barque built in 1897 Biere d' Hougoumont...

(1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075. Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society...

Convict women in Australia were British prisoners whom the government increasingly sent out during the era of transportation (1787–1868) in order to develop...

(1959). The Convict Ships. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075. Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society...

double-decked, three-masted, ship-rigged, copper-sheathed, barque that participated in the First Fleet, assigned to transport convicts for the European colonisation...

convicts were removed to Tasmania in May 1853. Convict ships to New South Wales List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia Norfolk Island Guide...

Penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends, with arrival of the convict ship Hougoumont in Western Australia, after an 89-day voyage from England...

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...

Island. October 12 – End of penal transportation from Britain as the last convict ship, the Hougoumont, departs from Portsmouth on an 89-day passage to Western...

a merchant ship built upon the River Thames in 1799 as a West Indiaman. Between 1832 and 1833 she made two voyages transporting convicts from England...