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Show A Convict Ship, rteadors'of "Tho Convict Ship" will bo interested to know that until to-cently to-cently ono of thoso craft was In existence. ex-istence. Tho ship a fow years ago was moored In tho Thames, between Blackiriars and Westmlnstor bridges. It had taken to Australia In its tlmo 137,000 poor wretches exiled from England for various offoaBos. Tho vessel Bank in Sydnoy bar opr, but was inter raised and snlled to England. It had 72 cells, a black holo and a chapel. Tho ship began its voyages U Australia In 1787 und sailed 81 yours, in which tlmo It carried to imprisonment im-prisonment nnd exile 116,812 men and X0,:il9 women. |