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Settlement Of Australia
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Convict Ships
to Australia
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Conditions
on Board
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Ship Naming
Patterns
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Shipping
Routes
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The convicts were often kept below deck and confined to cells. As if that was not bad enough, they were only let out once a day for air. And you thought you had it bad!!!!
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Name-wise, the Roman Numeral after the ship's name describes the individual ship, while the number in brackets describes which voyage the ship was making. As an example, three different ships called 'Mary' were sent to Australia with convicts and although the first two vessels only made one voyage each, the last one made five. In some cases, extra confusion arises when two ships with the same name were in active service at the same time. | In later years, after other Australian settlements had been established, the transports often stopped at more than one destination to land convicts. From England the transports may have stopped off at Gibraltar, a port in the West Indies, South America, the Cape of Good Hope, and any one of the Australian penal settlements. |
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Last Updated 6.18.03
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