Sentence examples for convict ship from inspiring English sources

The walk ended at Circular Quay, where Solomon Wiseman would have stepped ashore from the convict ship.

The Amphitrite was a convict ship transporting female prisoners and their infants to the penal settlement in New South Wales.

The galley's last historic role was as a convict ship, to which felons were sentenced in France and elsewhere into the 18th century.

(One of his own forebears was an Irish political prisoner sent to Australia in 1868 on the very last convict ship).

So bad were conditions that one ship's surgeon, serving on the convict ship John I, sailing from Portstmouth to Van Diemen's Land in 1830, threw himself overboard "in a fit of lunacy".

Three years later, in 1833, another convict ship, the Java, left Cork bound for New South Wales, laden with 200 transportees – among them 12 insurrectionary Whiteboys from Kilkenny, found guilty of swearing an illegal Whitefoot oath.

In a textbook example of faint-praise damnation, the report grants that Thailand "improved its anti-trafficking data collection", but then blasts the country for insufficient law-enforcement efforts, "corruption at all levels" and failing to protect victims or to "investigate, prosecute and convict ship-owners and captains for extracting forced labour from migrant workers".

(The sentence was sometimes commuted to deportation, which, given conditions on convict ships, was almost a death sentence).

Cats were introduced to Australia with the first fleet, where they had been kept as ratters on convict ships.

Convict ships to Sydney were stopped by 1842 and to the rest of the country in 1868, by which time some 168,000 prisoners had made the journey.

Most of them behaved with appalling callousness to their charges, especially in the cattle trucks used for rail transports and in the convict ships of the Far East.