Nile 1858 - Ship Tree

Date: 23 Sep 1857 to 1 Jan 1858
Location: Western Australia
Surnames/tags: Arrivals_18xx Pioneers Ship_Tree

Nile - arrived in WA in 1858 - (from Perth DPS)

Nile, 1858 Convict Ships

This 763 ton ship was built at Sunderland in 1849. It was employed as a convict transport for Western Australia and left Plymouth, England on September 23, 1857 bound for the Swan River Colony, stopping at Bahia, Brazil on the way. She carried the nineteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 100 days and the Nile arrived in Fremantle on January 1, 1858 with 40 passengers and 268 convicts (Erickson). ^[1]
W. Johnson was the captain of the vessel.

People – LifeTree

• Matthew Blagden Hale DD (1811 - 1895)

ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS in Western Australia

Sources

1. ↑ The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians,
   pre-1829-1888. compiled by Rica Erickson

Western Australian Convicts 1850-1868

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