LADY PENRHYN First Fleet
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:32 pm
Built as a wooden cargo vessel by Greaves, Limehouse for Curtis & Co., London.
1786 Launched as the LADY PENRHYN.
Tonnage 332 ton, dim. 82.4 x 27.7 x 12ft. Length overall 104ft.
Two decked ship, square stern.
Three masted. Ship rigged.
Her first captain was Captain William C. Severs.
1786 She was chartered by the Navy Board as a transport for a voyage to Botany Bay, New South Wales.
Fitted out in Deptford for a convict voyage.
06 January 1787 she embarked her first convicts in Woolwich, before she set sail to the Motherbank in the Solent where the First Fleet was assembled and stores and provision were loaded.
When at anchor a fever had broken out on board and one woman convict died.
There was trouble on board from the beginning, the women prisoners were difficult to control, and prostitution could not be prevented.
19 April 5 prisoners were put in irons for prostitution, and the second mate dismissed.
Sunday 13 May the fleet set sail, the LADY PENRHYN under command of Captain William Cropton Sever (without s). On board 101 women convicts.
While she was a new ship and the master did not yet known the sailing abilities of the ships she was lagging behind.
On arrival in Tenerife, Canary Islands, 10 women were on the sick list.10 June the fleet left Tenerife and via the Cabo Verde to Rio de Janeiro, which she arrived 5th August
By crossing the line the crew on board the LADY PENRHYN paying tribute to King Neptune came nearly in collision with the CHARLOTTE.
The LADY PENRHYN was the worst sailer in the fleet and regular was miles behind, only during heavy weather she could keep up with the fleet.
Her crew was also not the best, on the 13th July three men were brought on board the HMS SIRIUS, who had been guilty of mutiny by refusing to steer the vessel as directed by the master. Three men from the SIRIUS were transferred to the LADY PENRHYN.
A women convict thinking that it was water, drank a solution of mercury sublimate corrosive, an older women convict fell from the steerage and broke two ribs, both women recovered.
After arrival in Cape Town some women convicts were transferred from the FRIENDSHIP to make place for some sheep bought there.
10 January 1788 Surgeon Bowen wrote during a fierce storm on the 10th “the convict women” were so terrified that most were down on their knees at prayers, and in less than one hour after it had abated they were uttering the most horrid oaths and imprecations that could proceed out of the mouths of such abandoned prostitutes as they are.
20 January 1788 she arrived at Botany Bay. The convicts were in a healthy condition when they arrived there. During the voyage some women were punished for thieving, fighting and abusive languages.
After moving from Botany Bay to Port Jackson the convicts disembarked and stores landed.
Early May she sailed from Port Jackson for China to load a full cargo of tea, arriving safely in the U.K. 11 August 1789.
1789 Sold to Wedderburn & Co., London and used in a regular run to Jamaica.
22 July 1811 taken by the French privateer DUKE OF DANZIG, while on a passage from London to Grenada, set on fire and scuttled.
Norfolk Island 1987 55c sg422, scott?
See also: http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=10907
Source: The Convict Ships by Charles Bateson. Ships of the East India Company by Rowan Hackman.
1786 Launched as the LADY PENRHYN.
Tonnage 332 ton, dim. 82.4 x 27.7 x 12ft. Length overall 104ft.
Two decked ship, square stern.
Three masted. Ship rigged.
Her first captain was Captain William C. Severs.
1786 She was chartered by the Navy Board as a transport for a voyage to Botany Bay, New South Wales.
Fitted out in Deptford for a convict voyage.
06 January 1787 she embarked her first convicts in Woolwich, before she set sail to the Motherbank in the Solent where the First Fleet was assembled and stores and provision were loaded.
When at anchor a fever had broken out on board and one woman convict died.
There was trouble on board from the beginning, the women prisoners were difficult to control, and prostitution could not be prevented.
19 April 5 prisoners were put in irons for prostitution, and the second mate dismissed.
Sunday 13 May the fleet set sail, the LADY PENRHYN under command of Captain William Cropton Sever (without s). On board 101 women convicts.
While she was a new ship and the master did not yet known the sailing abilities of the ships she was lagging behind.
On arrival in Tenerife, Canary Islands, 10 women were on the sick list.10 June the fleet left Tenerife and via the Cabo Verde to Rio de Janeiro, which she arrived 5th August
By crossing the line the crew on board the LADY PENRHYN paying tribute to King Neptune came nearly in collision with the CHARLOTTE.
The LADY PENRHYN was the worst sailer in the fleet and regular was miles behind, only during heavy weather she could keep up with the fleet.
Her crew was also not the best, on the 13th July three men were brought on board the HMS SIRIUS, who had been guilty of mutiny by refusing to steer the vessel as directed by the master. Three men from the SIRIUS were transferred to the LADY PENRHYN.
A women convict thinking that it was water, drank a solution of mercury sublimate corrosive, an older women convict fell from the steerage and broke two ribs, both women recovered.
After arrival in Cape Town some women convicts were transferred from the FRIENDSHIP to make place for some sheep bought there.
10 January 1788 Surgeon Bowen wrote during a fierce storm on the 10th “the convict women” were so terrified that most were down on their knees at prayers, and in less than one hour after it had abated they were uttering the most horrid oaths and imprecations that could proceed out of the mouths of such abandoned prostitutes as they are.
20 January 1788 she arrived at Botany Bay. The convicts were in a healthy condition when they arrived there. During the voyage some women were punished for thieving, fighting and abusive languages.
After moving from Botany Bay to Port Jackson the convicts disembarked and stores landed.
Early May she sailed from Port Jackson for China to load a full cargo of tea, arriving safely in the U.K. 11 August 1789.
1789 Sold to Wedderburn & Co., London and used in a regular run to Jamaica.
22 July 1811 taken by the French privateer DUKE OF DANZIG, while on a passage from London to Grenada, set on fire and scuttled.
Norfolk Island 1987 55c sg422, scott?
See also: http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=10907
Source: The Convict Ships by Charles Bateson. Ships of the East India Company by Rowan Hackman.