Stag Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1855

This 678-ton barque was built at Sunderland in 1842. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left London, England on February 5, 1855, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the fourteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 107 days and the Stag arrived in Fremantle on May 23, 1855, with 89 passengers and 255 convicts [Erickson]. H.N. Clarke and Jos. Caldwell were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 89 passengers, all 89 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 24 wives, 17 sons and 18 daughters.