Corona Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1866

This 1199 ton ship was built at Dundee in 1866. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Portland, England on October 16, 1866, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the thirty-fifth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 67 days and the Corona arrived in Fremantle on December 22, 1866, with 79 passengers and 304 convicts [Erickson]. William S. Crudace and William Crauford were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 79 passengers, 75 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 20 wives, 11 sons and 14 daughters. The other 4 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.