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John Tagg 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 339 (169) |
| 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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Tasmanian Records. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-2P449JPG Per Calcutta, John Tagg, Middlesex G.D. 15 April 1801, 7 years.
Portsmouth Hulk Records. HO-9-8_3. Page 3. John Tagg, age 19, Felony, Tried Middlesex, 15 Apr 1801, 7 years. Sent on board the Calcutta 9 April 1803.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 March 2020), April 1801, trial of JOHN TAGG JOHN WILLIAMS (t18010415-128). JOHN TAGG, JOHN WILLIAMS, Theft > grand larceny, 15th April 1801. 422. JOHN TAGG and JOHN WILLIAMS were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 13th of April , an umbrella, value 6s. the property of Jervis Wells . JERVIS WELLS sworn. - I am a Venetian-blind maker , and live in Piccadilly : On Monday se'nnight, as I was at dinner with my family, between one and two, I lost my umbrella, I did not see it taken. ANN SANDWICH sworn. - I was sitting at dinner, and saw the prisoner, Tagg, take the umbrella, it was hanging upon a nail within-side the shopdoor; I am sure the prisoner is the man, an officer went after him. WILLIAM WILSON sworn. - I am one of the patrols of the parish of St. James's: On the 13th of April, a little after one o'clock in the day, coming from the watch-house into Piccadilly, I saw the prisoner, Williams, standing at a silversmith's door, he seemed very attentive, looking down Piccadilly; I watched him, and observed Tagg coming out of the prosecutor's shop, with an umbrella, and the little one, Williams, immediately joined him; he gave Williams the umbrella in the middle of Piccadilly, and ran down Derby-court, which is no thoroughfare; he threw the umbrella away upon a dunghill, and I took hold of him immediately; Rice Evans took the other prisoner. RICE EVANS sworn. - I was with Wilson: I pursued, and apprehended the prisoner Tagg. Wells. This is my umbrella, it has my own hand-writing upon it. The prisoners did not say any thing in their defence. Tagg, GUILTY , aged 19. Williams, GUILTY , aged 16. Transported for seven years . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.