Merchantman Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1863

This 1018 ton ship was built at Sunderland in 1852. It was employed twice as a convict transport for Western Australia and left London, England on October 12, 1862, bound for the Swan River Colony, stopping at Bermuda where [Bateson] says her convicts embarked. She carried the twenty-seventh of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. On this voyage, the Merchantman took 125 days and arrived in Fremantle on February 14, 1863, with 147 passengers and 192 convicts [Erickson]. William Gardiner and William Smith were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 147 passengers, 139 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 50 pensioner guards, 35 wives, 26 sons and 28 daughters. The other 8 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.