LADY JULIANA - From Frank C. Bowen's
"The Golden Age of Sail"
(CT)
Convict
Transports
I. Pictures Identified as of Convict
Ships by the National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich*
Charles
Kerr – w3s 463t
1826
nmm
picture
Negative No. B4856
Sunderland
The Charles Kerr made
one voyage
as a convict transport -to Sydney in
1837. She visited Sydney again in
1839, and Adelaide in 1840.
Emerald
Isle – w3s 501t
1836
nmm
picture Negative No. 9302
Moulmein
The Emerald Isle made
one voyage
as a convict transport - to Hobart in
1843 (from where she was recorded
as going to New Zealand). She visited
South Australia in 1854.
Florentia
– w3s 453t
1821
nmm
picture Negative No.
9401
Newcastle
The Florentia made two
voyages to
Sydney as a convict transport in 1828
and 1830. She appears to have made
a
further seven voyages to Sydney in
1832, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837,
1838 and 1840. ( There could be
confusion with another vessel of
similar name Forentina/Florentine)
The Florentia
is also listed as arriving
in Sydney from London in 1841
and
1843.
Henry Porcher
– w3s 485t
nmm
picture Negative
No, 9402
1817 Bristol
The
Henry Porcher made three
voyages as a convict transport - two
to Sydney in
1825 and 1835, and one
to Hobart in 1836. She made other
visits to Sydney in 1833, 1838, 1840,
and another in late 1840 and also in
1841 from Lima
and Valparaiso.
Lady
Juliana – w3s 401t
1779
nmm picture
Negative No.
B4622
nmm acquatint & etching
by R. Dodd
(with mainmast shattered by
lightning
and under tow of
the
frigate Pallas in
Gulf of Florida
1782)
PAH8432 Plate II
B&W, Plate 2, from
Dodd etching in
Frank C. Bowen's "The Golden
Age of Sail",
(Halton & Truscott
Smith Ltd., London 1925)
The Lady Juliana was
the first convict
transport to leave England after the First
Fleet. She made only one such voyage,
leaving Plymouth in July
1889 with 226
female convicts and arriving at Syney in
June 1790 after a voyage of
309 days.
Lady
Kennaway – w3s 584t
1817
nmm
picture Negative No.9353
Calcutta
Illustrated London
News
woodcut ut
1847, Vol. 11, P.401
nmm coloured
lithograph us by
W.J. Huggins ('Homeward bound
1827', made 1829)
PAH 8468
The Lady
Kennaway made three
voyages as a convict transport - to
Hobart in 1835 and1851, and to
Sydney in 1836 She also made
voyages with Government
assisted
emigrants - to Sydney in 1841,
and to Port Phillip in 1848, 1850
and
1853.
Norwood
- w3s 849t 1854
nmm
picture
Negative No. 9859
Sunderland
The Norwood made
two voyages as a
convict transport to Western Australia in
1862 and 1867.
Pitt
- 775t 1780
nmm oil painting
by D. Serres,
the Elder
BHC
3554 Negative
No. 1587
B&W, Plate 4, from
acquatint by
J.W. Edy of the
Serres
painting, in
Frank C. Bowen's
"The Golden Age
of
Sail". The Pitt
made one voyage
to Sydney as a
convict transport in
1792
Sir George Seymour
– w3s 724t
nmm
picture
Negative No. B3620
1844 Sunderland
nmm oil
painting by W.
Howard
BHC3640
The Sir George Seymour
made one
voyage as a convict transport - to
Hobart and Geelong (with Pentonville
'exiles') in 1845. She made a voyage
to Port Phillip with government
assisted emigrants in in 1849. In 1850,
she was one of the first four ships
opening the Canterbury settlement in
New Zealand .
Vimeira – w3s 941t 1851
Sunderland
nmm
photo Negative No. P6721
The Vimeira made
one voyage as a
convict transport - to Western
Australia
in 1865. She also made a voyage to
Port Phillip with Governmen assisted
emigrants in 1868.
II.
Other Probable Pictures of Convict Transports
Atlas – w3s 501t 1812 Whitby nmm oil painting us
by W.J. Huggins
(Signed and dated 1822)
BHC3213 Neg.410
B&W Plate No. 11 in
Frank C. Bowen’s
“The Golden Age of Sail”
There were four vessels
named “Atlas” which
carried convicts to
Australia. The Atlas in
the Huggin’s painting has
been identified from the
National Maritime
Museum’s oil paintings'
catalogue by the year she
was built. She was an East
Indiaman and made
voyages to India and
China
This Atlas made one voyage
to Sydney as a convict
transport in 1816.She does
not appear to have made
any other voyages to
Australia
Blenheim
– w3s 808t.n.m.
1845
slv postcard, printed b&w (vessel in
Shields
postcard described
as "808 tons built
Dunstan
at
(Sunderland?)" Sunderland
and Shields are close by and
there is
a query
besides "Sunderland".
Image No. a12944
A Blenheim of that tonnage made
three
voyages as a convict transport
to Hobart in 1848, 1850 and
1851. .
The same ship also made one voyage to
Port Phillip with Government assisted
emigrants in 1854.
Clyde - i3s 1,151t
1860
Glasgow
nmm photo am No. G.2266
A ship of
this name and
details
(tonnage, date and
place built)
was a convict transport to
Western Australia in 1863.
Edwin Fox - w3s 836gt 1853 Photo of painting of the Edwin Fox under
sail and another photo of her as a
refrigeration depot ship on website
http://www.shawsavillships.co.uk.
The Edwin Fox made one voyage as
a
convict transport to Western Australia
in 1858. She was purchased by Shaw,
Savill & Co. in 1873 and in 1885 became
a
refrigerated meat storage ship in a number
of New Zealand ports while shore plants
were constructed. In 1886 was hulked in
Queen Charlotte Sound, Picton. In 1897
moved to Port Chalmers where she
became derelict. She is back at Picton.
Havering –
w3s
906t
nla watercolour (The Havering,
Captain Pryce, passing
St.
Helena in Dec. 1851,
bound
for Sydney, New South
Wales,
passage 82 days)
nla.pic-an591979
The Lloyd’s Register 1851
lists the Master for a
voyage
London-Sydney as “C.
Price”
The Register has only one
vessel named
“Havering”
of 775tom/906tnm, built
in
South Shields in 1849.
She
made one voyage as a
convict transport to Sydney
in 1849. Her Master for
that
voyage was John Fenwick
who is listed in
Lloyd’s
Register as Master of the
vessel from 1849 up to the
voyage to Sydney in 1851.
Hooghly - w3s 466t
1819
London
slsa engraving
(c.1840) aq
No. B26873
The Hooghly made four voyages
as a
convict transport
to Sydney
in 1825,1827,1831 and
1834. She
carried emigrants to South
Australia
in 1839, and made a further six
voyages to South Australia
from
1843 to 1856. (See Ronald Parsons'
"Migrant Ships for South Australia
1836-1866") . She also visited Port
Phillip on a half dozen occasions -
no doubt looking for a return cargo
during this period.
Lady Castlreagh
– w3s
842t
1802 nmm oil
painting
(dismasted
Thames
in a cyclone off
Madras
24
October1818)
BHC 3437
The Lady
Castlreagh made a
voyage as a convict transport to
Sydney (arriving 30 April) and
Hobart (arriving 11 June and
departing for Madras 26 June)
in
1818. It was blown out of the
Madras Roads and stranded.
(See Ronald Parsons' "Shipping
Losses and Casualties Concerning
Australia and New Zealand" )
Lady
Nugent - w3s 535t 1813
The Lady
Nugent made two voyages
as a convict transport -to Sydney in
1835 and Hobart in 1836. She made
a voyage to Sydney in 1838; and four
voyages to
New Zealand from 1840 -1851 (Brett
"White Wings", Vol.II). Her first arrival
in New Zealand was in Wellington in
October 1840 - one of the pioneer ships
of the Wellington settlement
nlnz pencil drawing
by G.R.Hilliard
(on high seas
1840) No. A-113-016
nlnz pencil
dreawing by G.R.Hilliard
(sailing into harbour
entrance,
New
Zealand,
1841)
No.
A-113-015
(See also Bagalore
above)
Mangles –
w3s 594t 1802
Calcutta
slv photo of
painting
(b&w) us
(title:"Convct ship
Mangles, master
John
Coghill") Made six voyages
to
Sydney as a
convict transport -
in
1820,1822,1824,1826, 1828
and 1833, and one to Hobart in
1835. The ship's Master for the
first four voyages (1820-1826)
voyages was John Coghill
Lib.
Record No. 817280.
Mangles made
further voyages to
to Sydney in 1837 and 1840..
Mellish
– w3s 424t 1820
Calcutta
nla print
acquatint hand coloured
by E.
Duncan
after W.J. Huggins
(entering Sydney harbour published
1830?)
nla.pic-an9576808
nmm the same print by E. Duncan
(engraver) . Has caption:"To John
Pearse, Esq, M.P. This plate of the
East India ship Mellish entering the
harbour of Sydney is most
respectfully Dedicated by Arthur
Vincent Esqr., Commander"
Arthur Vincent was the Ship's
Master of Mellish on her first
voyage as a convict transport
in 1829.
B&W, Plate
15, from Duncan
print in Frank C. Bowen's
"The
Golden Age of Sail"..
The Mellish made two
voyages as
a
convict transport - to Sydney in
1829 and Hobart in 1830. She
also
visited Sydney in 1839
and 1840, and Hobart in 1840.
Midlothian
– w3bk 414t 1836
Illustrated London News woodcut
Sunderland
aq (with other ships engaged in
carrying emigrants to
New Zealand
-see Bangalore above).
1851, Vol. 18,
P. 422 .
The Midlothian (distant) in the
woodcut has the
same tonnage and
place of build as the convict transport
of that name except that the date of
build is given as 1835 not 1836.
The Midlothian was in Lyttelton in
October1851 with a Capt.
Gibson
as master. She made one
voyage
as a convict transport to Hobart
in
1853 with 'J. Gibson' as master.
She had
previously visited Melbourne
in 1839, 1840, 1843 and 1850.
Morley – w3s 480tom 1811 Thames nmm oil painting us by
(later
492tom/579tnm) William
Adolphus Knell
(signed and dated1828)
BHC 3502 (Neg. 3533)
nla watercolour of
Sesostris
and Morley piloted through
the Torres Straits by the HM
brig sloop Britomart (Lt/Cdr
Owen Stanley) captioned
“Sunset May 22, 1841 of
Mt. Cook” (In.1841, the
Britomart was leaving the
Australian Station for
India.)
nla.pic-an23501541
The Morley made six
voyages as a convict
transport – to
Sydney in
1817 and 1818, to
Hobart
and Sydney in
1820, to
Hobart in 1823, and to
Sydney in 1828 and 1829.
There is no record of
other
visits by the Morley to
Sydney, Hobart, Port
Phillip
or Adelaide in the
1830s.
She did however visit
Adelaide in April 1840
from where she was
reportedly destined
for
New Zealand and
Valparaiso.
According to Ian
Nicholson’s
“Log of
Logs” Vol. 2, she was
in Sydney in early May
1841,
and destined for Bombay.
This is consistent with
a passage
of the Torres Straits
later in
that month.
Mount Stewart Eiphinstone
–
w3bk nmm oil
painting
611t 1826
Bombay
(signed and dated 1840)
BHC 3504 &
Negative
No. 9422.
NMM
catalogue gives 1826 as date
of construction of the vessel in the
painting which is also the date of
build of the convict transport of
the
same name. The Mount
Stewart
Elphinstone made two voyages as
a
convict transport - to Hobart in
1845 and 1848, and one to
Moreton Bay in 1849..She brought
Government assisted emigrants to
Port Phillip in
1857.
St.
Vincent – w3s 410t 1829
London
Illustrated London News,
wood
(lengthened in 1844 and
remeasured engravings:
as 497t o.m.
and 630t n.m)
(i) slq
enraving ut Image No. 14945
ILN 1844, 13 April 1844 (leaving
with "bounty" emigrants)
(ii) ILN 1854,
Vol. 25. P. 57 (as a
troopship)
The details (name, tonnage, date and
place built) of the vessel in both
engravings are the
same as those of
the
convict transport.
The St..Vincent
made
three voages as a convict
transport - to Sydney in 1837 and
to
Hobart in 1850 and 1853. She was
the
last convict transport to reach
Hobart..She made voyages to
Sydney in
1840, 1841
and 1844.
She was still afloat in1863.
Sesostris
– w3s 487t 1817 Hull
See nla
watercolour of Morley,
Sesostris and HM brig
Britomart in Torres Straits
above.
nla.pic-an23501541
Sesostris made one voyage as
a convict
transport to Sydney
in 1826. In the Sydney records,
she is listed as arriving in
Sydney from London iin1839
from Tahiti in 1840, and from
Calcutta in February 1841.
She is decribed as a barque
of 488tom/588tnm.
Tory – w3bk 512t 1842 Sutherland nmm coloured lithograph
by T.G. Dutton (Caption:
“Barque
Tory..G.E. Langford, Commander…
Australian Cordilleras Gold Mining
Company ..Ship leaving the Downs
with their first expedition to
Australia”) PAH0574
nla coloured lithograph
nla.pic-an9579666
The barque Tory, 433tom/512tnm,
built Hylton near
Sutherland 1842
(details from Hobart
records)
made three
voyages as
a convict
transport –
to
Hobart in 1845 and
1848, and to Norfolk Island (via
Hobart)
in 1847.
A
barque Tory of the same details
was lost when she went ashore
near Port Stephens, N.S.W.
in 1853. Her Master was
Captain Langford (as in the
caption of the Dutton
lithograph). The vessel was
carrying a party of labourers
from the UK to Port
Stephens
for the Peel River
Mining
Company. No
lives were lost.
(R.Parsons: “Shipping Losses
and Casualties Concerning
Australia and New
Zealand”)
This was possibly the end of
the voyage of which the
beginning is depicted in the
Dutton lithograph
There was another
barque
Tory, 402tom/483tnm,
also
built in Sutherland in
1842
with which there has
been
some confusion. She
visited
Adelaide in 1850 and
1851
from London and on her
way to Melbourne. She
traded between
Melbourne
and New Zealand
from
1851 until at least
1854.
Her Master from her
1850
visit to Adelaide
until at least
1854 in Melbourne was
Capt. J. Rowe.
Waterloo
–w3s 414t 1815
Bristol
slt lithograph
(wreck of convict ship
Waterloo
at Cape of Good Hope,
Aug., 1842)
AUTAS991124071630
Made six voyages as convict
transport
between 1829 and 1838 - five to
Sydney and one to Hobart (1835). In
1842, on a voyage to Hobart as a
convict transport, the Waterloo put
in
to Cape Town because of an outbreak
of scurvy. In a severe storm she was
driven from her anchors and became
total loss. There was a heavy loss of
life.
Three
convict transports -
slsa zirconograph by
William Light
Eden,
Emerald Isle and
B 509
Henry
Porcher - and two other
Emerald
Isle and
Henry Porcher as
vessels
at anchor Port Adelaide
above. Eden (w3s-later bk
513t 1826
London) made five voyages as a
convict
transport - three to Hobart in 1836,
1842 and 1849, one to Sydney in 1840,
and one
where convicts designated for
Port Phillip were landed at Geelong in
1849.
She visited Sydney in 1837 after
landing convicts
in Hobart. She visited
Adelaide in 1838. (The Hobart Register
gives
her tonnage as 513t/522t/523 -
differences
between om and nm)
* From “Research Guide G3:
Passengers: Ships
sailing to Australia
& New
Zealand (images)” on the website of the National
Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, identifies pictures marked with an asterisk as
pictures of
convict transports.
(Ship details from Charles
Bateson’s
“The Convict Ships
1797-1868”,
Library of Australian History, Sydney 1983 - first
published by Brown,
Son & Ferguson, Glasgow
1959. The Lloyds’ Register, and Ship
Arrival
and Departure information for
Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide and other
Australian ports have also been consulted.).
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