This 640-ton ship was built in Calcutta in 1832. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Portland, England on April 19, 1855, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the fifteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 90 days and the Adelaide arrived in Fremantle on July 18, 1855, with 93 passengers and 259 convicts [Erickson]. M. Longman and S. Donnelly were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 93 passengers, all 93 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 21 wives, 22 sons and 20 daughters.
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