List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia

Between 1842 and 1849, 234 juvenile offenders were transported to Western Australia on seven convict ships, even though the colony was not then classed as a penal colony. From 1850 to 1868, Western Australia was a full-fledged penal colony, and during that time over 9,000 convicts were transported to the colony on 43 convict ship voyages.

Voyages transporting Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia

Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas", but pardoned on arrival at their destination on the conditions that they be "apprenticed" to local employers, and that they not return to England during the original term of their sentence. Between 1842 and 1849, Western Australia accepted 234 Parkhurst apprentices, all males aged between 10 and 21. As Western Australia was not then a penal colony, contemporary documents studiously avoided referring to the prisoners as "convicts", and the ships that brought them were not officially recognised as convict ships there. English records were not so reticent, classing as convict ships the seven ships that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.

This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.

Voyages transporting convicts to Western Australia

This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported convicts to Western Australia during its time as a penal colony between 1850 and 1868.

Notes

1. ^ Merchantman is officially listed as sailing from London via Bermuda, but its convicts were boarded at Bermuda not London.

See also

• Convict era of Western Australia

References

• Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships 1787–1868. Glascow: Brown Son & Ferguson. 
• "Western Australian Convict Ships 1850-1869". http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa.html. Retrieved 16 February 2006.