Between 1842 and 1849, 234 juvenile offenders were transported to the Colony of Western Australia on seven convict ships. From 1850 to 1868, over 9,000 convicts were transported to the colony on 43 convict ship voyages. Western Australia was classed as a full-fledged penal colony in 1850.
Parkhurst apprentices 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 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, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 1842 | 18 | ||
| October 1843 | 28 | ||
| December 1844 | 18 | ||
| January 1846 | 16 | ||
| March 1848 | 51 | ||
| February 1849 | 50 | ||
| Mary | October 1849 | 53 |
This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported convicts to Western Australia during its time as a penal colony between 1850 and 1868.
| Ship | Origin | Arrival | Number of convicts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scindian | 1 June 1850 | 75 | ||
| 25 October 1850 | 100 | |||
| Portsmouth | 13 May 1851 | 208 | ||
| Pyrenees[1] | 28 June 1851 | 293 | ||
| 14 October 1851 | 301 | |||
| Portland | 2 November 1851 | 279 | ||
| Plymouth | 1 August 1852 | 212 | ||
| Dudbrook | Plymouth | 7 February 1853 | 228 | |
| Pyrenees | Torbay | 30 April 1853 | 293 | |
| 19 August 1853 | 303 | |||
| Phoebe Dunbar | 30 August 1853 | 285 | ||
| General Godwin | 28 March 1854 | 15 | ||
| Sea Park | London | 5 April 1854 | 304 | |
| London | 7 August 1854 | 277 | ||
| Calcutta | 9 January 1855 | 6 | ||
| London | 23 May 1855 | 224 | ||
| Adelaide | Portland | 18 July 1855 | 259 | |
| Plymouth | 29 March 1856 | 249 | ||
| Plymouth | 7 September 1856 | 248 | ||
| London | 3 July 1857 | 262 | ||
| 8 August 1857 | 4 | |||
| Plymouth | 1 January 1858 | 270 | ||
| Caducius | 5 February 1858 | 1 | ||
| Plymouth | 1 June 1858 | 268 | ||
| Calcutta | 28 October 1858 | 11 | ||
| Plymouth | 20 November 1858 | 280 | ||
| Plymouth | 19 August 1859 | 224 | ||
| 19 November 1859 | 1 | |||
| Portland | 11 February 1861 | 293 | ||
| Lincelles | Portland | 28 January 1862 | 304 | |
| Portland | 9 June 1862 | 290 | ||
| Portland | 31 December 1862 | 299 | ||
| London[2] | 14 February 1863 | 191 | ||
| Clyde | Portland | 29 May 1863 | 320 | |
| Portland | 28 December 1863 | 270 | ||
| Clara | London | 13 April 1864 | 301 | |
| Merchantman | Portland | 12 September 1864 | 257 | |
| Portland | 10 August 1865 | 278 | ||
| Vimeira | Portland | 22 December 1865 | 278 | |
| Portland | 4 July 1866 | 276 | ||
| Portland | 22 December 1866 | 305 | ||
| Portland | 13 July 1867 | 253 | ||
| London | 9 January 1868 | 279 |