John Barry

John Barry was a three-masted merchant ship, convict transport, and immigrant transport built in 1814 at Whitby, England by John Barry for his own interests. A typhoon damaged her in 1841 and at last report she was an opium hulk at Hong Kong. Career 1st convict voyage (1819): Under the command of Captain Stephenson Ellerby, John Barry sailed from Portsmouth, England on 30 April 1819, and arrived at Port Jackson, Australia on 26 September 1819. She embarked 142 male convicts, none of whom died on the voyage. Among the free passengers aboard was Commissioner John Bigge, and his secretary Thomas Scott, who arrived to report on the state of the colony for the British government. 2nd convict voyage (1821): John Barry was under the command of Roger Dobson. She sailed from Cork, Ireland on 16 June 1821, arrived at Port Jackson on 7 November 1821. She embarked 180 male convicts, none of whom died on the voyage. Robinson settler scheme (1825): John Barry, Peter Roche, master, carried 253 assisted immigrants from Cork to Quebec under a scheme organized by Peter Robinson. John Barry left Cork on 22 April 1825 and arrived at Quebec on 6 July.