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Link: Convict Ships from Kingstown for Australia
« on: Tuesday 18 March 08 16:55 GMT (UK) »
1830. When the "Essex" hulk caught fire the convicts were moved to the "Hercules"
The "Duke of Cornwall" left 8th / 9th July 1850. DoA at Hobart 27th October 1850.
The "Duke of Richmond" left 20th / 21st Sept. 1843. DoA at Hobart 2nd Jan. 1844.
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/convicts/conships_d.htm

The convict ship "Phoebe Dunbar" left Kingstown, Ireland on 2nd June 1853 bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the eleventh of thirty seven shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The non-stop voyage took eighty nine days. The "Phoebe Dunbar" arrived in Fremantle on 30th August 1853 with ninety three passengers and 286 convicts [Erickson]. The Captain was T. Michie and the Surgeon was John W. Bowler. http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/con-wa10.html

An article from the National Archives of Ireland about the Transportation of Convicts.
www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/transportation.html