LADY SHORE
 
 
Sailed              :  22 Apr 1797
Mutiny              :   1 Aug 1797
Route               :  Portsmouth - Rio de Janeiro (101 days)
 
Built               :  1794 Calcutta
Size                :  482 tons 
 
Master              :  James Willcocks
First Mate          :  Robert Lambert
Second Mate         :  Simon Murchison
Third Mate          :  Gerard Drummond
Purser              :  John Black
Surgeon             :  Charles Fyffe
Carpenter           :  Thomas Millard
Boatswain           :  Robert Watson
Gunner              :  Charles Barbass
Cooper              :  James Messenger
Steward             :  William Lewis
Helmsman            :  Estoban Rousselot
Seamen              :  David Bennett
                       Michael Cunningham
                       John Currey
                       George Davis
                       Jean-Baptiste D'Escala
                       George Drinkald
                       Thomas Guyer
                       William Hughes
                       John Lloyd
                       Richard Morrison
                       Michael Newman
                       Juan Pablo Perefert
                       Jean Prevot (mutineer - murdered the master)
                       Thomas Smith
                       Alexander Williams
Ships Boys          :  Richard Godfrey
                       Michael Richards
                       William Thorpe
                       
Named Military      :  detachment of New South Wales Corps 
Lieutenant          :  William Minchin (& Adjutant)  *
Ensigns             :  William Prater
                       - Crofton (left ship before departure)
Sergeants           :  Richard Barnes  * 
                       Thomas Hughes (Dublin)  *
                       William Murphy (Dublin)
Corporals           :  Edward Jones
                       George Morrison  *
                       John Spice (Germany)  +
                       Nicholas Thierry (Paris, France)  #
Privates            :  William Bacon
                       John Badley (England)
                       William Barr
                       Abraham Blake
                       John Buckland (England)
                       Thomas Burgess
                       John Brown (Cambridge, England)
                       John Brown  (negro)  #(2)?
                       John Church (England)  #?
                       James Conden (Ireland)  # %
                       James Couch
                       Louis Crepon (Hesse-Cassel, Germany)  #
                       William Crosier
                       Samuel Crump
                       Zach Daley
                       Thomas Daniels
                       Christopher Delahaye (France)  #
                       Joseph Delis (Bordeaux, France)  #
                       Andrew Devaling (Charleston, United States)  #(2) %
                       James Drew
                       Robert Dudson (Lancashire)
                       David Giles
                       David Green (Ireland)
                       George Hensen
                       John Harding
                       Joseph Hartlett
                       James Hill
                       Joseph Hobday (England)
                       James Hoy
                       Charles Hunter  @
                       Thomas Jew (London)  +
                       John Johnstone
                       Daniel Johns
                       Joseph Keating (Dublin, Ireland)
                       William Keating (Dublin, Ireland)  #(2)
                       John Kellan or Kealing (Ireland)  #? %
                       Patrick Kelly (Ireland)  # %
                       George Kingsbury (Dublin, Ireland)
                       Louis Legache (Rouen, France)  #
                       Gabriel Jean Le Maillot (Pontarlier, Doubs, France)  #
                       Andre Leriche (Monteaux, France)  #
                       Charles Lipscomb
                       Conrad Locher (Zurich, Switzerland)  #
                       James Lurton (Lancashire)
                       Patrick Lynch (Ireland)  # %
                       Rene Mallicote (St Vincente, France)  #
                       Cristobal Martinez al Christopher Greville (Puerto Rico)  #
                       Patrick McGinnis (Ireland)  #?
                       James McLeod
                       John Monds
                       Richard Morgan
                       John Morris
                       James New (New York, United States)  #(2) %
                       William Norton 
                       John Parsons
                       Samuel Pyott (Staffordshire)  #?
                       Michael Sheridan (Ireland)  #?
                       Andrew Sim (Perth, Scotland)
                       Flanigan Ward (Ballybay, Ireland)  +
                       William Webb (Brentford, Middlesex)
                       James Robert Welsh
                       John Wills al Mills (Clownish Ireland)
                       John Wolfe (Saxony, Germany)  #
                       John Yarroll
                       Thomas Younger (England)
Drummers            :  - Cook
                       - Buckock
                       Edward Eagles  +
 
Soldiers Wives (12) :  Ann Minchin ux Lieutenant Minchin
                       Hannah Barnes ux Sergeant Barnes
                       Frances Hughes ux Sergeant Hughes
                       Mary Jones ux Corporal Jones
                       Mary Morrison ux Corporal Morrison
                       Ann Jew ux Private Jew
                       Elizabeth Keating ux Private Keating
                       - Welsh ux Private Welsh
                       + four wives of former Savoy prisoners
 
Soldier Children(11):  Margaret Hughes - 7 years - child of Sergeant Hughes
                       + son of Sergeant Hughes
                       + one child of Private Welsh - born at sea
                       + two children of former Savoy prisoners
 
Free Persons        :  Thomas Morrison
                       Mrs Morrison ux Thomas
                           + two children 
 
Convicts            :  68 (2 male )(66 female)
                      
#    mutineers
%    ex Savoy prisoner
*    arrived aboard 'Royal Admiral' 1800
+    arrived aboard 'Duke of Portland' 1807
@    arrived aboard 'Admiral Gambier' 1808


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