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Daniel Ryan 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.
Calcutta (generic)References
| Primary Source | New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842. Annotated Printed Indentures 1837 |
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Convict Notes
ADM 101/15/4/5 Folios 9-13: copy of daily sick book for the Calcutta, by A Donoghoe, surgeon, for 25 March to 4 August 1837 Folio 27: case no 11, Daniel Ryan, aged 20, prisoner; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 12 July 1837, died 14 July 1837 at 8 o'clock.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Daniel Ryan, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Tipperary, 1837, 7 years for Grievous assault. Died at sea, 1837. Daniel Ryan, a boy about 14 or 15 years of age, was charged with a violent assault on Denis Flaherty, who with his wife, swore that prisoner was one of a party who came to the house where they lodged and beat them, on account of  being strangers from county Clare?. Thomas Rawley, in whose house prosecuters were, swore that he knew prisoner for years and that his mother lived with witness that it was he that spoke to the prosecutors, he would know his voice, prosecutor swore that there was the light of the fire. Rawley swore there was no light, that was quite dark, the outrage  happened in December last. The jury retired for about two hours, and then brought in a verdict of Guilty. Tipperary Free Press, 22 March 1837.
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842. Annotated Printed Indentures 1837 Died at Sea
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842. Annotated Printed Indentures 1837 Died at Sea