Simon Taylor was a barque built in 1824 on the River Thames that transported assisted migrants to Western Australia.

In the early 1840s, John Hutt, Governor of Western Australia, sent £3500 to the Land and Emigration Commission in Britain to provide assisted passage for migrants to bolster the workforce in the new colony.

[2] Simon Taylor departed from London on 30 April 1842 and docked at Fremantle, Western Australia on 20 August.

Two hundred and forty-two passengers disembarked, of which 219 were assisted migrants to Western Australia, and a further 18 were Parkhurst apprentices – these were juvenile criminals from the Isle of Wight who were transported to Western Australia but pardoned on arrival on the condition that they take up an apprenticeship with a local settler.

On 7 June 1849 she was returning from Jamaica when she was driven ashore on shingles off the south coast of England, and broke up.