Convict Constables
Nine Days Off the Boat: Hobart’s Instant Constables
On 19 August 1830, after 108 days at sea, the convict transport David Lyon dropped anchor in the Derwent. She had left Sheerness in May with 200 male convicts aboard, drawn from the hulks Retribution and others moored at Chatham — men who had spent months, sometimes years, in Read more