Sultana Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1859

This 775-ton ship was built at Sunderland in 1854. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Plymouth, England on May 29, 1859, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the twenty-second of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 82 days and the Sultana arrived in Fremantle on August 19, 1859, with 142 passengers and 224 convicts [Erickson]. Art Sharp and Henry Richardson were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 142 passengers, 121 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 50 pensioner guards, 31 wives, 17 sons and 23 daughters. The other 21 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.