Famillies Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1854

This 757-ton barque was built at Sunderland in 1845. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left London, England on May 20, 1854, bound for the Swan River Colony, stopping at Plymouth and Gibraltar on the way. She carried the thirteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 79 days and the Ramillies arrived in Fremantle on August 7, 1854, with 94 passengers and 277 convicts [Erickson]. Charles Hodder and Daniel Ritchie 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, 22 wives, 17 sons and 25 daughters.