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Marion
Marion was employed as a convict transport and left Portland, England on 2nd November 1851 with a crew of 39 bound for the Swan River Colony. She carried the sixth of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 89 days and she arrived in Fremantle on 30th January 1852. Captain Alex Bissett and Frederick W. Le Grand were the captain and surgeon respectively. The Religious Instructor was 18-year old Reverend Crawley. Diane Oldman
References and Links
Diane Oldman's page for Marion on her Royal Sappers and Miners in WA site.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 14 February, 2019 and hosted at freotopia.org/ships/marion.html (it was last updated on 2 May, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.