Lincelles Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1862

This 904-ton ship was built at Moulmein in 1858. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Portland, England on October 5, 1861, bound for the Swan River Colony, stopping at the Cape of Good Hope on the way. She carried the twenty-fourth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 115 days and the Lincelles arrived in Fremantle on January 28, 1862, with 80 passengers and 304 convicts [Erickson]. Edwin Gooch and William Craw(u)ford were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 80 passengers, 78 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 17 wives, 17 sons and 14 daughters. The other 2 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.