The Saint Vincent sailed on the Australia Run, carrying emigrants or convicts on several voyages,[1] each lasting three to four months duration, between 1836 and 1853.

St. Vincent was built and launched in London in 1829, for her owners Cruickshank and Co. [2][3] Her Australian career began as a convict ship in a voyage to Sydney in 1837.

Only stopping in the West Country at Plymouth, and Cork, Ireland (then known as Queenstown while under British rule) where she took on additional migrants.

Most emigrants were in receipt of special government grants designed to subsidise settlement in the colonies.

The Illustrated London News reported on 13 April 1844 that “The future well being and respectability of the colony [Australia] mainly depends on the good conduct of the working classes”.