HMS Calcutta, Convict Voyage to Port Phillip 1803

The Calcutta sailed from Portsmouth on 26 April 1803, carrying 307 male convicts, some with their families. The intention was to found a new colony in Bass Strait, and the convicts were landed at Port Philip on 16 Oct 1803. Unable to establish a settlement there, and after an excursion party found conditions no better in the north of Tasmania, the ship sailed for the River Derwent where the fledgling settlement of Hobart was already underway.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Convict Ship Calcutta, 1803, Free Settler or Felon website

• Convict Records site has a list of 292 convicts linked to this sailing.

• The Digital Panopticon Search Builder; 278 results. (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/search?from=60&e0.type.t.t=root&e0._all.s.s=Calcutta+1803&e0.surname.s.s=&e0.given.s.s=). Version 1.1, consulted 23rd December 2018.

• Details for the ship Calcutta (1803) from the Claim a Convict website at: http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/claimaconvict/shipDetails.php?shipId=57

• Convicts on the transport ship HMS Calcutta – 1803 from the Convict Stockade website at: http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/twconvic/HMS+Calcutta+1803

• Convict Ship Calcutta 1803 from the Free Settler or Felon? website at: https://www.jenwilletts.com/convict_ship_calcutta_1803.htm

• HMS Calcutta (1795) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Calcutta_(1795)