The "Simon Taylor"

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In 1824 the barque named the �Simon Taylor� was built at the Blackwall Shipyard on Thames, London for Meek & CO. Weighing in at some 431 tons, the �Simon Taylor�s� passenger deck was 140 feet long with a height of 7 foot 6 inches between decks.

The emigrant ship SIMON TAYLOR cleared customs on April 29, 1842 and sailed from Gravesend, London, England on April 30. She was under the control of Thomas BROWN and arrived at Fremantle in the Swan River Colony 111 days later on August 20, 1842 without calling at any other Port on the way.

The ship weighed 431 & 1/94 tons, was 114 feet long, and was registered in London. She was built in 1824 at the Blackwall Shipyard on Thames for Meek& Co. of London but was owned by Thompson & Co. after 1839.

There were 242 passengers aboard when she arrived in Fremantle - the largest number to arrive in the colony in a single vessel up until that date. The passage money was four pounds, eighteen shillings and the passengers comprised 219 assisted migrants, many of whom had been indentured to persons already resident in the colony, 18 Parkhurst boys and 5 cabin passengers.

The Parkhurst boys were juvenile prisoners from the Isle of Wight. They were to be apprenticed to local masters and were the first group of a total of 334 such boys to arrive in Western Australia between 1842 and 1852.

The passengers included a number of families from the neighbouring villages of Creaton and Guilsborough in Northamptonshire.

While returning to England from a voyage to Jamaica, the SIMON TAYLOR was driven ashore on the Shingles off the south coast of England on June 7, 1849, and subsequently broke up.