Folio 2: 9 July 1818; Arrived at Cove of Cork, embarked in convict ship Tyne at Deptford...

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1818

Folio 2: 9 July 1818; Arrived at Cove of Cork, embarked in convict ship Tyne at Deptford and appointed surgeon and superintendent on 30 May 1818 for the Elizabeth. Folios 2-3: 10 July 1818; Inspected the ship and found the prison, hospital and ship generally clean and well ventilated Had an interview with Dr Trevor Inspector of Prisons to hold the ship in readiness for seventy female convicts on board a sloop from Dublin. Folios 2-4: 11 July 1818; received seventy convicts from sloop the Precious, all the convicts were well washed and clothing, they were allowed to bring their own clothes if they were clean and not likely to harbour contagion; making arrangement to destroy other clothes that were not. At 5pm twenty eight female convicts from the prison in Cork were brought on board (these last repeatedly cheering as they come along side). Many of the convicts, old and new, appeared to have suffered much from intemperance and long confinement. Ordered for each mess a teakettle (to serve as a teapot), wooden bowl and platter and each individual with a half pint tinpot, and wooden spoon. Folio 4: 12 July 1818; Ordered the issuing of one pound of soap and three pounds of sugar and half a pound of tea to each mess. Folios 4-5: 13 July 1818; Three more female convicts from Cork were brought on board. They were kept back under a supposition that they were labouring under contagious diseases. One of them appears to suffering from debility another has sore throat and appears to show secondary symptoms of syphilis and the third I think is feigning complaints. Ordered Mary Cranford the woman having the appearance of syphilis a gargle for her throat, Doctor Trevor informed that the female convicts on board were under sentence of transportation and that he had transmitted to Dublin a list of their names. Folio 5: 14 July 1818; Weather uncommonly hot at 82 Fahrenheit in the shade. None on the sick list that need particular treatment and only three with slight complains. Folio 5: 15 July 1818; Doctor Trevor inspected of the ship and expressed his approbation of her state. Folios 5-6: 16 July 1818; Convicts are supplied by order from Doctor Trevor with a linen petticoat, towel and hat in addition to the clothing before supplied. The petticoat they will find very comfortable especially in a warm climate. The hat from its general weight I fear they will not be able to wear. It being black woollen one such as worn by the common people of the other sex in this country. Folio 6: 17 July 1818; There has been some little bickering and a party spirit shown between Dublin and Cork women otherwise they are tolerably orderly. Folios 6-7: 19 July 1818; Exhorted prisoners to an observance of religions duties. Folio 7: 20,21 and 22 July 1818; the pel hydray having occasioned slight soreness of the mouth of the woman labouring under syphilis it was discontinued and a saline cathartic given her, she is much better the soreness of the throat is nearly gone, other women on the sick list not requiring particular treatment. Folio 7: 23 July 1818; Rear Admiral Sir Josias Rawley the commander in chief at this port accompanied by Lieutenant Lewis agent for Transports visited the Elizabeth and expressed there apprelation as to her state and cleanly appearance of the convicts. Folios 7-8: 24 July 1818; Doctor Trevor inspected the ship and expressed his approbation of the means that had been adopted for preserving the health of the convicts. On its being represented to him by Mr Ostler the ship's master that he did not know how to act with respect to children who had been allowed to come on board with their mothers, he inspected thern and ordered that three (boys and upward to 12 years of age) be sent on shore as they might by industry be able to earn a subsistence and that the others seventeen in number (six boys and eleven girls) should be allowed to remain which Mr Ostler thought sufficient for his taking them. Indeed humanity would allow no other decision most of them having been brought from Dublin by there mothers and the greater part of them being infants in arms or under seven years of age, without a friend or relative near. Folios 8-9: 26 July 1818; Received order last evening to proceed on her voyage. At 6am, the weather light breeze and fine. Came on board Mr William Fallan and Mr Michael Riddigton having an order from the Secretary of State for a passage to New South Wales making the whole number of convicts, children, and passengers on board, 120 (101 convicts, 17 children, and two passengers). Only two of the convicts on the sick list and these only slight cases. Mr Purnil, the first mate of the ship, shows every unwillingness to comply with my orders and frequently in the absence of the master acts in direct opposition to them. Folio 9: 28 July 1818; the seasickness is general amongst the convicts and children. Sprinkled the prison deck with hot vinegar. Folio 10: 29 July 1818; able this day to get the prison deck better cleaned, most of the convicts recovering from seasickness and able to come on deck. Folio 10: 2 August 1818; Mary Cranford (syphilis patent) takes the acid nitros dilute bis in dies. Folio 10: 7 August 1818; The Island of Porto Santo in sight. Folio 10-11: 8 August 1818: The Island of Madeira in sight. Folio 11: 9 August 1818: The Peake of Tenerife in sight. Folio 11: 10 August 1818: A few convicts have complained lately of dyspeptic symptoms which easily remedied by a cathartic or two and in one or two where it has been attended by a pain in the side a little blood taken from the arm to relieve it. Folio 11: 11-13 August 1818: none on the sick list. Folio 11: 16 August 1818: The island of St Jago in sight. Folio 12: 17-19 August 1818; One of the convicts was slightly scalded on the foot yesterday and another on the arm today. Folio 12: 24 August 1818: Issued lemon juice and sugar in the proportions ordered by the fifth article of my instructions, wine has been issued every meat day in the proportion of a gill to each person. Folios 12-13: 28-29 August 1818: Found it necessary to supply Elizabeth Reid (an old woman and an idiot) with a shift. She having lost one of those before supplied and having vomit about her person, and issued a shift each to Ann Curran, Margaret Morgan and Sarah Hays. Folio 13: 1 September 1818; The ship crossed the equator this forenoon. That event being expected, and the women were having expressed a wish to witness the usual ceremony amongst seaman on such an occasion, which from their good behaviours I complied with. Soon after noonday the men who had not been so far before were initiated, the women joining in free sprinkling of water, with much good will and humour. Few of them escaping a complete drenching, and in the evening they were indulged with half a pint of wine each they having conducted themselves very orderly.

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