This 671-ton ship was built in Liverpool in 1836. It was employed as a convict transport and left Plymouth, England on May 3, 1852, bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the seventh of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 88 days and the William Jardine arrived in Fremantle on August 1, 1852, with 102 passengers and 212 convicts [Erickson]. James Raiff and James Donnelly [aka Donnett] were the captain and surgeon respectively. Of the 102 passengers, 95 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being made up of 29 pensioner guards, 23 wives, 19 sons and 24 daughters. The other 7 passengers have not been accounted for but were possibly cabin passengers or regular soldiers.
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