Captains, emigrants and convicts: the summer of 1842-1843 in Hobart, VDL
Captain Edward GOLDSMITH on the Janet Izzat Lt. Charles HEXT on the Cape Packet PRISONERS on the Emily and Moffatt George O'BRIEN, spy, on the Sir Charles Napier Bounty emigrants the JUDD family on the Sir Charles Napier Thomas NEVIN, Joseph THOMAS and John NEVIN snr at Cygnet, Tasmania Artist: William Clark (Scottish, 1803–1883) Title: The barque "Sir Charles Napier", Pladda Island in the distance , 1841–1841 The summer of 1842-1843 The tiny southern port of Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) accommodated dozens of shipping vessels of all sizes arriving and departing during the summer of 1842-1843. Those who disembarked at the wharves to catch their first breath and sight of this Antipodean penal colony were from every social class. As future free labour, there were the hundreds of transported prisoners and their guards, the soldiers of the 90th Regiment. Then there were the bounty emigrants, and their wealthier counterparts, the free settlers with th...
