Norwood Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1867

This 849-ton ship was built in Sunderland in 1854 and although [Bateson] agrees that it was employed twice as a convict transport for Western Australia, he claimed that this voyage’s ship was only 786 tons. All accounts agree that on this second voyage she left Portland, England on April 18, 1867, bound for the Swan River Colony and carried the thirty-sixth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 86 days and the Norwood arrived in Fremantle on July 13, 1867, with 81 passengers and 253 convicts [Erickson]. Frank Bristow and W.M. Saunders were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 81 passengers, 77 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 17 wives, 14 sons and 16 daughters. The other 4 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.