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-There was only ever one successful mutiny on a convict transport - the 'Lady Shore' (1797) -and that was an uprising by the soldiers, rather than the convicts. But mutiny was a constant concern on ships which carried male convicts, particularly when they were carrying Irish political prisoners who were familiar with the exercise of extreme violence.
-While some historians have been inclined to under-estimate the risk of mutiny, more than one in four of the ships carrying male convicts in the first 15 years of the Australian transportation system, experienced a mutiny or an actual conspiracy, where the plans were well advanced.
-This section brings together the available information on the five mutinies, six conspiracies and eight alleged conspiracies in the years 1787 to 1801.
-- Gary Sturgess, 5 July 2016