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General Godwin was a convict ship

Convict ship

The term convict ship is a colloquial term used to describe any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile.-Colonial practice:...

that transported

Penal transportation

Transportation or penal transportation is the deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between...

fifteen convicts from Calcutta

Kolkata

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, India

India

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to Fremantle

Fremantle, Western Australia

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, Western Australia

Western Australia

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in 1854. It arrived in Fremantle on 28 March 1854. The fifteen convicts were all soldiers who have been convicted by court-martial

Court-martial

A court-martial is a military court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of members of the armed forces subject to military law, and, if the defendant is found guilty, to decide upon punishment.Most militaries maintain a court-martial system to try cases in which a breach of...

and sentenced to transportation. In addition to the convicts, there were thirteen passengers on board.

List of convicts on the General Godwin

Name	Date of birth	Trial place	Trial year	Crime	Sentence
Samuel Baskerfield	1828	Bombay Mumbai Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...	1852	Breach of articles of war	14 years
William Brown	1820	Umballah Ambala Ambala is a city and a municipal corporation in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India, located on the border of the states of Haryana and Punjab in India. Politically; Ambala has two sub-areas: Ambala Cantt and Ambala City, approximately 3 kilometers apart from each other...	1852	Striking superior officer	14 years
Anthony Cain	1830	Bombay	1852	Breach of articles of war	14 years
John Caldwell	1826	Bangalore Bangalore Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...	1852	Theft of equipment	7 years
Charles Delaney	1820	Bombay	1853	Breach of articles of war	14 years
John Duffy	1814	Bombay	1851	Wounding with intent	Life
John Dugleby	1824	Meerut	1853	Stealing equipment	14 years
John Foley	1831	Dinapore	1852	Attempted murder	Life
John Foran	1828	St Thomas Saint Thomas Christians The Saint Thomas Christians are an ancient body of Christians from Kerala, India, who trace their origins to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. They are also known as "Nasranis" because they are followers of "Jesus of Nazareth". The term "Nasrani" is still used by St...	1853	Drunk & insubordination	14 years
John Gill	1824	Dinapore	1854	Destroying his regiment's equipment	Life
Thomas Hale	1824	Umballah	1852	Striking superior officer while drunk	Life
Michael Hogan	1821	Madras Chennai Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...	1853	Insubordinate conduct	14 years
Francis Lonson (aka Linson, Louson, Lousone)	1821	Bombay, India	1853	Forgery	7 years
John McCullagh	1829	Bombay	1853	Breach of articles of war	10 years
James Terry	1826	Bombay	1854	Breach of articles of war	7 years

List of convicts on the General Godwin

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