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Richard Collins was transported on the Calcutta, departing 19th Apr 1837 and arriving 5th Aug 1837 with 342 passengers.
HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley (1795), converted to a Royal Navy ship. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport. She also transported convicts to Australia. The French Magnanime captured Calcutta in 1805. In 1809, after she ran aground during the Battle of the Basque Roads and her crew had abandoned her, a British boarding party burned her. In 1803 the Calcutta sailed into Port Phillip bay where at least 4 convicts escaped , in Sydney in April 1804 it was reported that 8 had died on the trip. Of the four known escapees one was shot on escape, 2 turned back after 2 days to reattach to the group at the camp in bay before the boat left , one continued on ...into Australia's history books. At least 13 convicts were transferred on to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Australia.The ship also carried officers, wives and free settlers.
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Thomas Stapleton was indicted for robbing John Shanahan of 9£ 15s, on his way to the fair of Thurles. Guilty—7 years transportation, Richard Collins, John Carroll, and James Cully were then placed at the bar, charged with various highway robberies, between Thurles and Templemore, on Daniel and Thomas Hall, Pat. Maher, John and Margaret Fannin, on the 30th of January last. It appeared that the prisoners, with Stapleton, who was previously tried. and some others, formed a gang that infested the neighbourhood of the towns of Thurles and ….. The first witness produced against them was an old confederate named Jas. Ryan —probably the very fellow who induced his much younger accomplices to the commission of crime. The parties ... proved their case to the satisfaction of the jury, and a verdict of Guilty was returned accordingly, Tipperary Free Press, 25 March 1837. SENTENCE OF DEATH RECORDED. ...Thomas Stapleton, Richard Collins, James Cully, and John Carrol, for highway robbery. Clonmel Herald, 25 March 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Richard Collins. age on arrival, 22, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Tipperary, 1837, Life for Assault felonious & robbery. DOB, 1815, native place, Tipperary. Single. Catholic. Labourer.