Edwin Fox (ship)

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Edwin Fox is the only surviving ship that transported convicts to Australia. The ship is berthed at the The Edwin Fox Maritime Centre at Picton in New Zealand.

Edwin Fox was built of teak in Calcutta in 1853 and served as a transport ship in the Crimean War.

From 1858 the ship served as a convict ship bound for Fremantle, Western Australia.

In 1867 she was converted from a full-rigged ship to a barque, and served on the emigrant route to New Zealand.

After a long period of neglect, the surviving hull was moved in 1999 to a dry dock at Picton to start the process of restoration as a museum ship.

Edwin Fox has been given a Category One Registration from the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

[edit] See also

Thomas Bushell, a convict transported on the Edwin Fox
Convictism in Western Australia
List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia
List of museum ships

[edit] References

The 149 year Illustrated Log of the Edwin Fox. Retrieved on May 24, 2006.

[edit] External links

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