Hashemy Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1850

This 523-ton barque was built in Calcutta in 1817. It was employed as a convict transport and left Portland, England on July 22, 1850, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the second of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 95 days and the Hashemy arrived in Fremantle on October 25, 1850, with 131 passengers and 100 convicts [Erickson]. John Ross and John W. Bowler were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 131 passengers, 104 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 32 pensioner guards, 24 wives, 24 sons and 24 daughters. The remaining 27 passengers have not been accounted for yet but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.