Lord Dalhousie Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1863

This 912-ton ship was built at Sunderland in 1847. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Portland, England on September 25, 1863, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the twenty-ninth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 90 days and the Lord Dalhousie arrived in Fremantle on December 28, 1863, with 89 passengers and 270 convicts [Erickson]. George Harvey and Mr. Fasken were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 89 passengers, 85 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 20 wives, 16 sons and 19 daughters. The other 4 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.