The Eleanor was a trading ship, built at Calcutta in 1821 [i]. She worked trade routes from Asia to England before being contracted to transport an unusual group of convicts to Australia – hard-working, honest men who had taken part in industrial action. The Machine Breakers “The men per Eleanor were landed on Monday lastContinue reading “Machine breakers, mutiny, and Moreton Bay: the voyages of the Eleanor, 1831.”
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