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Transportation
Richard Mc Dale was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
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Convict Notes
Richard Mc Dale was tried at Old Bailey, London on 30 April 1783 for stealing gold coins with a value of 126 shillings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17830430-64-defend813&div=t17830430-64#highlight He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Friendship aged about 33 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as shoemaker, Richard was also an out pensioner out of Chelsea hospital Partner in the original crime was Robert Forrester. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “in general tolerably well behaved but troublesome at times”. On 16 January 1789 he received 100 lashes for striking one of the convicts called Catherine Smith.