Vimeira Convicts, Enrolled Pensioner Guards, Prison Warders and Other Passengers 1865

This 941-ton ship was built at Sunderland in 1851. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Portland, England on September 30, 1865, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the thirty third of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 83 days and the Vimeira arrived in Fremantle on December 22, 1865, with 99 passengers and 279 convicts [Erickson]. Malcolm Green and William Crauford were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 99 passengers, 90 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 30 pensioner guards, 23 wives, 22 sons and 15 daughters. The other 9 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.