This page provides links to information about Convict Ships arriving
in New South Wales (and some to VDL) between the years 1788 and 1840.
Some of the information is adapted from
Charles Bateson's The Convict Ships;
Surgeons at Sea (Online)- National Archives;
and various contemporary newspapers.
Most
of the ships on these pagestransported
felons who would later be assigned or settle in the Hunter River
region. There are approximately 450 convict ships listed,
however it is not a complete list of all convict ships. Use the
links below to find information:
Ships in Red (also) carried female prisoners
Ships in Blue are a direct link to a list of Convicts who were
later sent to the Hunter region
Links to Surgeon's Journals or information
about the voyage are in Green
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Catalogue
Surgeons Journals.
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Catalogue page to
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Bound For Botany Bay:
Narrative of a voyage in 1798 Aboard the Death Ship Hillsborough -
Frank Clune
A Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales, in the year 1816, in the
ship Mariner, describing the Nature of the Accommodations, Stores,
Diet &c., together with an account of the Medical Treatment &c." by
John Haslam in John Croaker: convict Embezzler: John Booker and
Russell Craig.
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia,
Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825
[database on-line].
