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Dominick Jennings was transported on the Portland, departing 21st Feb 1833 and arriving 26th Jun 1833 with 199 passengers.
The 'Portland' ship was built at Bristol, England in 1822, 385 tons. The 'Portland' transported convicted from Britain to Australia in 1832 & 1833. The 1833 voyage came direct from Cork, Ireland therefore all of the passengers are not yet listed on this web site.
Portland (generic)References
| Primary Source | ADM 101/60/5 1832-1833 Medical journal of HM convict ship Portland, from 18 December 1832 to 13 July 1833. |
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John O’Brien and Dominick Jennings, for cow-stealing, to be transported for 7 years. Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette, 24 March 1832.
ADM 101/60/5 1832-1833 Medical journal of HM convict ship Portland, from 18 December 1832 to 13 July 1833 by Charles Inches, surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed on a voyage to Sydney, New South Wales. Includes notes on an outbreak of cholera. (Described at item level). Folio 4: case no 7, Dominic Jennings, aged 32, prisoner; taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, pleuritis; put on sick list 13 February 1833, discharged 18 February 1833 cured. Folios 15-18: case no 20, Dominic Jennings, aged 32, prisoner; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 25 March 1833, died 19 April 1833 at 3 am. Folios 38-42: Surgeon's general remarks. On 28 December 1832, the guard for the convicts embarked at Deptford on board the Portland, consisting of one subaltern of the 26th Regiment, one sergeant, one corporal and 27 privates of the 21st Regiment with six women and eleven children. On 1 January 1833 we dropped down the river to Gravesend, another subaltern of the 16th Regiment having joined the ship in the interim. On 3 January 1833 we proceeded to Cove of Cork, where we arrived on 11 [January 1833], and where various affairs connected with the prisoners detained us six weeks. On 2 February 1833 we embarked 184 male convicts and on 9 February [1833] completed our number to 192. The surgeon attributed the unusual degree of sickness and the greater loss than usual in the Portland, to the prisoners being much inferior in their health and vigor than the convicts in England, their clothes in general being worse, more or less worn and thin and much inferior in quality to that served to convicts in England, together with the very restricted allowance of food in their scale of diet, which amounting to only 20 ounces a week per man. Surgeon also comments on the outbreak of cholera on board the ship, leading to panic.