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Between 1788 and 1868 something like 162,000 convicts were put on transport ships and banished to the colonies to serve out their sentences.    Such were conditions onboard some of these ships and the hazards and vast distances travelled, perhaps as many as one in one hundred perished without ever setting foot on Australian soil.  WhenContinue reading “The Loss of the Convict Ship Neva – 1835”