Convict ships to New South Wales

The use of convict ships to New South Wales began on 18 August 1786, when the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and civilian personnel to Botany Bay. Transportation to the Colony of New South Wales was finally officially abolished on 1 October 1850.
This list reflects vessels that transported convicts to New South Wales as currently represented, it does not include transportations to colonies or ports that were once part of New South Wales.

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
	21 September 1819	Cork
	26 June 1831	Mauritius	First convict voyage to NSW - Transported 1 military convict
Dart	31 December 1833	Mauritius	Second convict voyage to NSW - Transported a number of military convicts
Dart	9 July 1834	Mauritius	Third convict voyage to NSW - Transported a number of military convicts
	28 March 1838	Cork
	25 May 1833	Woolwich
	12 March 1821	England
	19 September 1820	Cork
	1 December 1840	Adelaide	Transported 9 male convicts
HMS Dromedary	28 January 1820	England
	12 September 1831	Mauritius	Transported 1 military convict
	4 April 1807	India	Transported 2 military convicts
	27 July 1807	England	First convict voyage to NSW
Duke of Portland	25 January 1809	Portsmouth	Second convict voyage to NSW
	30 March 1830	Sherness	First convict voyage to NSW
Dunvegan Castle	16 October 1832	Dublin	Second convict voyage to NSW

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
Eagle	17 February 1811	Calcutta	Transported military convicts
Earl Cornwallis	12 June 1801	England
Earl Grey	31 December 1836	Cork	First convict voyage to NSW
Earl Grey	21 November 1838	Portsmouth	Second convict voyage to NSW
Earl of Liverpool	5 April 1831	London
Earl Spencer	9 October 1813	England
Earl St. Vincent	16 December 1818	Cork	First convict voyage to NSW
Earl St. Vincent	16 August 1820	Portsmouth	Second convict voyage to NSW
Earl St. Vincent	9 September 1823	Cork	Third convict voyage to NSW
Eden	14 January 1837	Hobart Town	First convict voyage to NSW
Eden	18 November 1840	Sheerness	Second convict voyage to NSW
Edward	26 April 1829	Cork	First convict voyage to NSW
Edward	22 February 1831	Cork	Second convict voyage to NSW
Edward Lombes	6 January 1833	India	Transported military convicts
	25 June 1831	Portsmouth
Eliza	5 July 1813	Calcutta	First convict voyage to NSW
Eliza	16 May 1815	Calcutta	Second convict voyage to NSW
Eliza	16 May 1828	Hobart
Eliza	21 January 1820	England	First convict voyage to NSW
Eliza	22 November 1822	Sheerness	Second convict voyage to NSW
Eliza	8 November 1827	Cork	Third convict voyage to NSW
Eliza	20 June 1829	Cork	Fourth convict voyage to NSW
Eliza	6 September 1832	Cork	Fifth convict voyage to NSW
Eliza	18 November 1828	London
Elizabeth	20 December 1830	Hobart
Elizabeth	20 May 1833	Singapore
Elizabeth	17 December 1838	Singapore & Swan River	Transported military convicts
Elizabeth	5 October 1816	England	First convict voyage to NSW
Elizabeth	19 November 1818	Cork	Second convict voyage to NSW
Elizabeth	31 December 1820	The Downs	Third convict voyage to NSW
Elizabeth	12 January 1828	Cork
Elizabeth	12 October 1836	London
Ellen	5 January 1837	Mauritius
Elphinstone	29 December 1838	Dublin
Emma Eugenia	9 February 1838	Portsmouth
	16 January 1834	Mauritius	Transported a military convict
England	18 September 1826	Downs	First convict voyage to NSW
England	1835	Portsmouth	Second convict voyage to NSW
Eudora	22 November 1840	Bombay	Transported military convicts
Exmouth	28 July 1831	Woolwich
Experiment	24 June 1804	Cowes
Experiment	25 June 1809	Cork

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
	15 February 1834	England
	8 March 1817	Spithead
Fanny	18 January 1816	The Downs
Fanny	2 February 1833	The Downs
Fergusson	26 March 1829	Spithead
Flora	8 November 1829	Spithead
Florentia	3 January 1828	England	First convict voyage to NSW
Florentia	15 December 1830	Ireland	Second convict voyage to NSW
Forth	26 April 1830	Cork
Forth	12 October 1830	Cork	First convict voyage to NSW
Forth	3 February 1835	Cork	Second convict voyage to NSW
Fortune	12 July 1806	England	First convict voyage to NSW
Fortune	11 June 1813	England	Second convict voyage to NSW
Francis & Eliza	8 August 1815	Cork
Freak	23 June 1839	Mauritius
Frederick	18 June 1814	Calcutta	First convict voyage to NSW
Frederick	24 April 1815	Calcutta	Second convict voyage to NSW
Frederick	22 November 1817	Calcutta	Third convict voyage to NSW
Frederick & Maria	19 June 1811	Calcutta	Transported a number of military convicts from Bengal
Friends	10 October 1811	England
Friendship	26 January 1788	Spithead	Part of First Fleet
Friendship	16 February 1800	Cork	First convict voyage to NSW
Friendship	14 January 1818	England	Second convict voyage to NSW

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
Gaillardon	30 March 1838	Calcutta	First convict voyage to NSW
Gaillardon	27 December 1838	Madras	Second convict voyage to NSW
Gaillardon	22 October 1839	Calcutta	Third convict voyage to NSW
Ganges	2 June 1797	Portsmouth
General Hewett	7 February 1814	England
	31 December 1818	Portsmouth
George Hibbert	1 December 1834	Downs
Georgiana	12 June 1829	Hobart Town	First convict voyage to NSW
Georgiana	27 July 1831	London	Second convict voyage to NSW
Gilmore	21 April 1832	Hobart Town	First convict voyage to NSW
Gilmore	4 March 1839	Hobart Town	Second convict voyage to NSW
Giraffe	24 February 1836	Swan River
	11 March 1803	England
	8 January 1819	Portsmouth
Glory	14 September 1818	England
	21 September 1791	England	Part of Third Fleet
Governor Bourke	21 February 1833	Swan River
Governor Phillip	4 July 1826	Mauritius
Governor Ready	16 January 1829	Cork
	21 October 1819	Sheerness	First convict voyage to NSW
Grenada	16 September 1821	Portsmouth	Second convict voyage to NSW
Grenada	23 January 1825	London	Third convict voyage to NSW
Grenada	23 January 1827	Downs	Fourth convict voyage to NSW
	14 April 1819	Calcutta
		Spithead	Hit iceberg and was beached at Cape of Good Hope
Guide	9 November 1818	Calcutta
Guildford	18 January 1812	London	First convict voyage to NSW
Guildford	8 April 1816	Ireland	Second convict voyage to NSW
Guildford	1 April 1818	Cork	Third convict voyage to NSW
Guildford	30 September 1820	Portsmouth	Fourth convict voyage to NSW
Guildford	15 July 1822	London	Fifth convict voyage to NSW
Guildford	5 March 1824	Portsmouth	Sixth convict voyage to NSW
Guildford	25 July 1827	Plymouth	Seventh convict voyage to NSW
Guildford	4 November 1829	Dublin	Eight convict voyage to NSW

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
James Laing	29 June 1834	Dublin
James Pattison	20 January 1830	Dublin	First convict voyage to NSW
James Pattison	25 October 1837	Sheerness	Second convict voyage to NSW
Jane	5 November 1831	Cork
Janus	3 May 1820	Cork
Java	18 November 1833	Cork
Jeune Ferdinand	17 December 1816	Isle de France
John	25 November 1827	London	First convict voyage to NSW
John	13 September 1829	Sheerness	Second convict voyage to NSW
John	8 June 1832	Downs	Third convict voyage to NSW
John	7 February 1837	Sheerness
John Barry	26 September 1819	Portsmouth	First convict voyage to NSW
John Barry	7 November 1821	Cork	Second convict voyage to NSW
John Barry	16 September 1834	Hobart Town	Third convict voyage to NSW
John Barry	17 January 1836	Torbay	Fourth convict voyage to NSW
John Barry	22 March 1839	Sheerness	Fifth convict voyage to NSW
John Bull	18 December 1821	Cork	First convict voyage to NSW
John Bull	5 December 1822	Calcutta	Second convict voyage to NSW
John Denniston	16 July 1835
John Renwick	27 August 1838	Downs
Jolly Rambler	19 May 1833	Swan River	Transported one convict

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
Kains	11 March 1831	London
Kangaroo	5 February 1816	Ceylon
Kate	2 December 1839	Adelaide
	18 February 1830	Spithead
Killmours	18 August 1838	Mauritius
King William	17 August 1840	Dublin
Kitty	18 November 1792	England

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
Nautilus	9 February 1840	Dublin
Neptune	28 June 1790	Portsmouth	Part of Second Fleet
Neptune	5 May 1818	The Downs	First convict voyage to NSW
Neptune	16 July 1820	The Downs	Second voyage to NSW
Neptune	2 January 1838	Dublin
	21 November 1833	Plymouth	First convict voyage to NSW
Neva	Wrecked in Bass Sraits with the loss of 224 lives	Cork	Second convict voyage to NSW
New York Packet	20 August 1835	Hobart Town
Nile	14 December 1801	Spithead
Nithsdale	12 May 1830	Sheerness
Norfolk	18 August 1825	Portsmouth	First convict voyage to NSW
Norfolk	27 August 1829	Spithead	Second convict voyage to NSW
Norfolk	9 February 1832	Cork	Third convict voyage to NSW
Norfolk	30 December 1832	Madras & Mauritius	Fourth convict voyage to NSW
Norfolk	12 February 1837	Portsmouth	Fifth convict voyage to NSW
	18 June 1815	Portsmouth
	13 June 1834	Portsmouth

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
	30 January 1816	England
	10 January 1818	Spithead	First convict voyage to NSW
Ocean	27 August 1823	Portsmouth	Second convict voyage to NSW

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Name	Date of arrival	Sailed from	Notes
	9 January 1814	Spithead
Warrior	20 November 1835	Calcutta
Waterloo	9 July 1829	London	First convict voyage to NSW
Waterloo	30 April 1831	Dublin	Second convict voyage to NSW
Waterloo	3 August 1833	Sheerness	Third convict voyage to NSW
Waterloo	6 September 1836	London	Fourth convict voyage to NSW
Waterloo	8 February 1838	Sheerness	Fifth convict voyage to NSW
Wave	2 April 1832	Hobart Town
Waverley	17 June 1839	Dublin
Westbrook	12 February 1840	Mauritus
Westmoreland	15 July 1835	London	First convict voyage to NSW
Westmoreland	22 August 1838	Dublin	Second convict voyage to NSW
Whitby	23 June 1839	Dublin
William & Ann	28 August 1791	Plymouth
William Jardine	11 April 1838	Dublin
William Pitt	11 April 1806	Cork
William Young	31 October 1829	Calcutta
Woodbridge	26 February 1840	London
Woodman	25 June 1823	Cork

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