Between 1842 and 1849, 234 juvenile offenders

Juvenile delinquency

Juvenile delinquency is participation in illegal behavior by minors who fall under a statutory age limit. Most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with juveniles, such as juvenile detention centers. There are a multitude of different theories on the causes of crime, most if not...

 were 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...

 to Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 on seven 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:...

s, even though the colony

Colony

In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception....

 was not then classed as a penal colony

Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory...

. From 1850 to 1868, Western Australia was a full-fledged penal colony

Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory...

, and during that time over 9,000 convicts were transported to the colony on 43 convict ship voyages.

Voyages transporting Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia

Parkhurst apprentices

Parkhurst apprentices

The Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas" and transported to Australia and New Zealand between 1842 and 1852...

 were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas", but pardoned on arrival at their destination on the conditions that they be "apprenticed" to local employers, and that they not return to England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 during the original term of their sentence. Between 1842 and 1849, Western Australia accepted 234 Parkhurst apprentices, all males aged between 10 and 21. As Western Australia was not then a penal colony

Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory...

, contemporary documents studiously avoided referring to the prisoners as "convicts", and the ships that brought them were not officially recognised as convict ships there. English records were not so reticent, classing as convict ships the seven ships that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.

This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia.

Ship	Arrival	Number of Parkhurst apprentices
Simon Taylor Simon Taylor (ship) The Simon Taylor was a barque used to transport convicts to Western Australia.Built in 1824 for Meek and Co., it was constructed at the Blackwall Yard on the River Thames in London. On completion, it was registered to S. Taylor. It weighed 431 tons, the passenger deck was 140 feet long, and there...	August 1842	18
Shepherd	October 1843	28
Halifax	December 1844	18
Cumberland	January 1846	16
Orient	March 1848	51
Ameer	February 1849	50
'Mary	October 1849	53

Voyages transporting convicts to Western Australia

This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported convicts to Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 during its time as a penal colony

Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory...

 between 1850 and 1868.

Ship	Origin	Arrival	Number of convicts
Scindian Scindian Scindian is widely considered the first convict ship to transport convicts to Western Australia.A barque of 650 tons, Scindian was constructed at Sunderland, England in 1844 and named after the Indian Scindia dynasty...	Portsmouth Portsmouth Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...	1 June 1850	75
Hashemy	Portland Isle of Portland The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel. Portland is south of the resort of Weymouth, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England. A tombolo over which runs the A354 road connects it to Chesil Beach and the mainland. Portland and...	25 October 1850	100
Mermaid	Portsmouth	13 May 1851	208
Pyrenees	Torbay Torbay Torbay is an east-facing bay and natural harbour, at the western most end of Lyme Bay in the south-west of England, situated roughly midway between the cities of Exeter and Plymouth. Part of the ceremonial county of Devon, Torbay was made a unitary authority on 1 April 1998...	28 June 1851	293
Minden	Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...	14 October 1851	301
Marion	Portland	2 November 1851	279
William Jardine	Plymouth	1 August 1852	212
Dudbrook	Plymouth	7 February 1853	228
Pyrenees	Torbay	30 April 1853	293
Robert Small	London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...	19 August 1853	303
Phoebe Dunbar	Kingstown Dún Laoghaire Dún Laoghaire or Dún Laoire , sometimes anglicised as "Dunleary" , is a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland, about twelve kilometres south of Dublin city centre. It is the county town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County and a major port of entry from Great Britain...	30 August 1853	285
General Godwin General Godwin General Godwin was a convict ship that transported fifteen convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1854. It arrived in Fremantle on 28 March 1854. The fifteen convicts were all soldiers who have been convicted by court-martial and sentenced to transportation...	Calcutta Kolkata Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...	28 March 1854	15
Sea Park	London	5 April 1854	304
Ramillies	London	7 August 1854	277
Guide Guide (ship) Guide was a convict ship that transported six convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1855. It arrived in Fremantle on 9 January 1855. The six convicts were all soldiers who had been convicted by court-martial and sentenced to transportation...	Calcutta	9 January 1855	6
Stag	London	23 May 1855	224
Adelaide Adelaide (ship) The Adelaide was a wooden cutter used in the cedar trade that was wrecked and lost off the Hawkesbury River in Broken Bay, New South Wales in July 1837.-Further reading:Online Database'sAustralian National Shipwreck Database...	Portland	18 July 1855	259
William Hammond	Plymouth	29 March 1856	249
Runnymede	Plymouth	7 September 1856	248
Clara	London	3 July 1857	262
City of Palaces City of Palaces (ship) City of Palaces was a convict ship that transported four convicts from Singapore to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1857. It arrived in Fremantle on 8 August 1857. The four convicts were all soldiers and sailors who had been convicted by court-martial in India, and sentenced to transportation...	Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...	8 August 1857	4
Nile	Plymouth	1 January 1858	270
Caducius	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...	5 February 1858	1
Lord Raglan	Plymouth	1 June 1858	268
Albeura Albeura Albeura was a convict ship that transported eleven convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1858. It arrived in Fremantle on 28 October 1858. The eleven convicts were all soldiers and sailors who have been convicted by court-martial in India, and sentenced to transportation...	Calcutta	28 October 1858	11
Edwin Fox Edwin Fox (ship) Edwin Fox is unique as the only surviving ship that transported convicts to Australia, brought settlers to both Australia and New Zealand and served in the Crimean war. She is the oldest surviving merchant sailing ship...	Plymouth	20 November 1858	280
Sultana	Plymouth	19 August 1859	224
Frances Frances (ship) Frances was a convict ship that transported a single convict from Madras, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1859. The convict, Patrick McDonald or McDonnell, was a soldier convicted of an "unnatural crime" by court-martial at Rangoon, and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation...	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...	19 November 1859	1
Palmerston	Portland	11 February 1861	293
Lincelles	Portland	28 January 1862	304
Norwood	Portland	9 June 1862	290
York	Portland	31 December 1862	299
Merchantman	London	14 February 1863	191
Clyde	Portland	29 May 1863	320
Lord Dalhousie	Portland	28 December 1863	270
Clara	London	13 April 1864	301
Merchantman	Portland	12 September 1864	257
Racehorse	Portland	10 August 1865	278
Vimeira	Portland	22 December 1865	278
Belgravia	Portland	4 July 1866	276
Corona	Portland	22 December 1866	305
Norwood	Portland	13 July 1867	253
Hougoumont Hougoumont (ship) Hougoumont was the last convict ship to transport convicts to Australia.A three-masted full rigged ship of the type commonly known as a Blackwall Frigate of 875 tons gross on dimensions of 165.5 feet long, 34 ft beam and 23 ft depth of hold, Hougoumont was constructed at Moulmein, Burma...	London	9 January 1868	279