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

This 849-ton ship was built at Sunderland in 1854. It was employed twice as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Portland, England on March 16, 1862, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the twenty-fifth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. On this voyage, the Norwood took 85 days and arrived in Fremantle on June 9, 1862, with 92 passengers and 290 convicts [Erickson]. Frank Bristow and A. Watson were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 92 passengers, 89 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 21 wives, 19 sons and 19 daughters. The other 3 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers..