Pyrenees Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1853

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 February 2, 1853, bound for the Swan River Colony. On this voyage, she carried the ninth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 87 days and the Pyrenees arrived in Fremantle on April 30, 1853, with 94 passengers and 293 convicts [Erickson]. B. Freeman and John Bower were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 94 passengers, all 94 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 24 wives, 22 sons and 18 daughters.