Pyrenees Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1851

This 832-ton ship was built at Sunderland in 1851. It was employed twice as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Torbay, England on March 30, 1851, bound for the Swan River Colony. On this voyage, she carried the fourth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 90 days and the Pyrenees arrived in Fremantle on June 28, 1851, with 96 passengers and 293 convicts [Erickson]. Thomas Eagles and Alex C. Macleroy were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 96 passengers, all 96 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 25 wives, 20 sons and 21 daughters.