City of Palaces (ship) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

City of Palaces was a convict ship

Convict ship

The term convict ship is a colloquial term used to describe any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile.-Colonial practice:...

that transported

Penal transportation

Transportation or penal transportation is the deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between...

four convicts from Singapore

Singapore

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to Fremantle

Fremantle, Western Australia

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, Western Australia

Western Australia

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in 1857. It arrived in Fremantle on 8 August 1857. The four convicts were all soldiers and sailors who had been convicted by court-martial

Court-martial

A court-martial is a military court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of members of the armed forces subject to military law, and, if the defendant is found guilty, to decide upon punishment.Most militaries maintain a court-martial system to try cases in which a breach of...

in India

India

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, and sentenced to transportation. Other than the four convicts, there were no passengers on board.

List of convicts on the City of Palaces

Name	Date of birth	Trial place	Trial date	Crime	Sentence
Thomas Cullen	1841	Bombay Mumbai Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...	2 September 1856	Striking a sergeant	14 years
John McCartney	1829	Karachi Karachi Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...	26 April 1856	Assault and rape	Life, commuted to 7 years
Moses McConnell	1834	Poonah Pune Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...	22 November 1856	Throwing his cap at a lieutenant colonel	7 years
John Nash	1831	Bombay	7 August 1856	Insubordination and mutinous conduct	14 years

List of convicts on the City of Palaces

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