More names added to our growing list of patriots sent to Van Diemans`
and - Australia
Transported aboard Marquis of Hastings //
Sailed from Portsmouth England on 17 Mar 1839 with 240 male convicts
Arrived VDL Tasmania on 23 Jul 1839 with 233 male convicts
128 days at sea - Ship Master Hy I Naylor - Ships surgeon Ed Jeffery.
Benjamin Wait
Samuel Chandler
Alexander McLeod
John Vernon
John McNulty
James Wagoner
Norman Malery
George B. Cooley
Garret Van Camp
Transported aboard the Canton //
Sailed from Spithead England on 22 Sep 1839 with 240 male convicts.
Arrived VDL Tasmanian 12 Jan 1840 with 230 male convicts.
112 days at sea - Ships Master Jn Mordaunt - Ships Surgeon Jn Irvine. (Jn/
John?)
Lynus W. Miller
John Grant
James Gamel
Jacob Beemer
Both ship first stopped in Canada arrived at Spithead a stretch of water in
the Eastern Solvent of Great Britain, between the entrance to Portsmouth
Harbor and the Isle of Wight, were they picked up more convicts before then
sailing to VDL.
Ships or Vessels were hired for the conveyance of Convicts from Great
Britain and Ireland, between the 1st January 1839 and the 30th June 1846.The
Marquis of Hastings and Canton where hired in 1839 to transport convicts
.
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