convict ships
Penal transport boats
Convict ships were vessels used to transport convicted criminals from Britain to penal colonies, particularly Australia, from the late 18th through mid-19th centuries.
The voyages were notoriously brutal, with high mortality rates from disease, malnutrition, and overcrowding.
Her ancestor arrived in Tasmania on a convict ship in 1820.
- brigShipboard detention quarters
- penal colonyDistant settlement for exiled criminals
- Van Diemen's LandHistorical name for Tasmania
- TasmaniaIsland state below Australia
- AustraliaSouthern Hemisphere continent-country
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- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
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- penal historyprison, prisons, gaols, jails, penitentiaries
- Van Diemen's Landpenal colony, Van Diemen's Land, transportation, penal settlement, colonial era
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