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George Lee was transported on the Calcutta, departing 31st Jan 1803 and arriving 4th Oct 1803 with 305 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 | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 345 (172) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Hulk Records. Portsmouth. HO-9-8_1. page 50/52 Received seven from Worcester, 26 Jun. George Lee, age 22, Forgery, tried at Worcester, 6 March 1802, BS 14 years. Calcutta.
Staffordshire Advertiser Staffordshire, England 13 Mar 1802 At Worcester: George Lee, for having in his possession a forged bank-note, was ordered to transported for fourteen years. George Lee was listed as 23 years old, Born C1780, and he was a clerk.
Taken from an account of the voyage of the Calcutta, written in 1805, by one of the officers. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_account_of_a_voyage_to_establish_a_colony_at_Port_Philip_in_Bass's_Strait_on_the_south_coast_of_New_South_Wales,_in_His_Majesty's_Ship_Calcutta,_in_the_years_1802-3-4/Chapter_5 Several convicts absconded from the camp soon after their landing, led away by the most delusive ideas of reaching Port Jackson, or getting on board some whaler, which they ignorantly believed occasionally touched on this Coast; some of them were brought back by parties sent after them, and others returned voluntarily, when nearly famished with hunger. Two only of these unfortunate beings were never heard of after leaving the camp, one of these was George Lee, a character well known to several persons of respectability in England.
https://www.jenwilletts.com/convict_ship_calcutta_1803.htm Contains a reference to George Lee: when the Calcutta was at Port Phillip trying to establish a colony under Gov David Collins, George Lee and another convict absconded and were not seen again.
TAHO record CON22/1/1 Page 641 - list of convicts arriving in VDL 1804 - 1841, A-L https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-1$init=CON22-1-1_0656