Clara Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1857

This 708-ton ship was built in Sunderland in 1853. It was employed twice as a convict transport for Western Australia and left London, England on March 19, 1857, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the eighteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. On this voyage, the Clara took 106 days and arrived in Fremantle on July 3, 1857, with 95 passengers and 262 convicts [Erickson]. Henry Peachey and Jas. Caldwell were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 95 passengers, all 95 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 29 pensioner guards, 23 wives, 21 sons and 22 daughters.