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Convict Ship 'Rodney' and Saltwater River Probation Station, A…
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Melbourne
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28-Jun-2016
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Convict Ship 'Rodney' and Saltwater River Probation Station, A small volume titled 'An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners...' By Joseph Alleine (London, The Religious Tract Society) 198pp. Endorsed on the inside front cover 'Rodney C.S. 69' and numbered '69' on the leather spine. Also endorsed on the title page 'Salt Water River Station, Nov.1853'., Also, a matching volume titled 'Memoir of Harlan Page.....' by William A Hallock (London, The Religious Tract Society) 176pp. Endorsed on the inside front cover 'Rodney Convict Ship 346' and numbered '346' on the spine., Scarce survivors of the sea journey and later use by lay preachers and priests in Van Diemen's Land., The 'Rodney' made three journies to Van Diemen's Land carrying convicts: the first arrived in November 1850 with 308 convicts, the second in December 1851 with 308 convicts, the third in February 1853 with 339 convicts. All the convicts carried had been male. 1853 was the year in which the last convict ship arrived in Van Dieman's Land., Salt Water River was established as the first probation station on the Tasman Peninsula in 1841. Flinders Bay, Slopen Island and Impression Bay probation stations also opened that year. The Government had stated that no more convict assignments to settlers would be made. A Probation System was activated, whereby convicts were divided into gangs and sent to work in the under developed areas of the Colony. Gangs of 250 to 300 men would have light to heavy labour, graded according to prisoner diligence and conduct. The gangs would build their own accommodation and then be employed on public works at stations., Probationary periods: 7-10 year sentence: 2 years' probation, 14-20 year sentence - 3 years, life sentence - 4 years. With good behaviour at the completion of the probationary period, a convict received a probation pass, then a ticket-of-leave, later graduating finally to a conditional or absolute pardon.
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