[5] The high death toll on her first voyage led to a Board of Enquiry, which blamed neglect by the Master and Surgeon.

She had an overall length of 117 ft. 6 ins., a breadth above the gunwales of 29 ft. 6 ins, and a draught, when loaded, of 18 ft. She was copper-sheathed, and had quarter galleries, with a bust of Minerva for a figurehead.

[6][8] Surry was launched for Mangles & Co., and initially served as a West Indiaman in the Jamaica – London trade.

[10] A typhus epidemic on board Surry had killed 36 of the convicts, together with the Surgeon, First and Second Mates, Boatswain, two seamen and four of the guard.

When Surry arrived, the authorities placed all the survivors under a strict quarantine in a camp on the "North Shore" of Port Jackson.

The approximate location of the camp is known because a detailed 1840s map identifies the graves of "three typhoid victims and the attending physician".

The egregiously high death toll led the authorities to convene a Board of Enquiry under the colony's Assistant Surgeon Redfern (himself once a transportee).

Surry left Whampoa on 11 March 1815, carrying a cargo for the British East India Company (EIC).

In 1816, Surrey, still under Raine, sailed from London, departing Cork on 14 July and travelling via Rio on 26 September reached Sydney after 159 days on 20 December with 150 male prisoners.

The markedly improved treatment for the prisoners under Raine and the presence of naval surgeon John F. Bayley were reflected in the safe arrival of all her convicts.

She returned to Port Jackson from the Derwent about 21 April with general cargo, remaining for three months before setting sail for London on 23 July.

On the return voyage to Port Jackson Surry stopped at Valparaíso to take on a load of wheat.

While there Captain Raine learned of the three crew members of the whaler Essex, (George Pollard, Jr., master), who were stranded on Henderson Island after a whale had rammed and sank their vessel.

Surrey departed Portsmouth on 5 October 1822, sailing directly to Port Jackson, which she reached on 4 March 1823, after a passage of 150 days.

Surgeon Charles Linton took charge of the 160 male prisoners, with the records showing 157 landed in Sydney.

Now 461 tons and classed E1, Surrey departed London on 11 August 1829 under the command of Charles Kemp and with Henry G Brock as surgeon.

[1] Still under the command of Charles Kemp, and with surgeon Colin A Browning, Surrey sailed from Portsmouth on 17 July 1831, and after a passage of 132 days reached Port Jackson on 26 November.

Migrants who travelled in this vessel formed a township on the road to Onkaparinga, South Australia, which they named Surryville.

On her last voyage as a convict transport, Surrey sailed from Downs to Hobart Town via the Cape, departing 5 April 1842 and arriving 128 days later on 11 August.

Two of these may have been former soldiers of the guard on Somersetshire whom a court martial there had sentenced to transportation for their role in an abortive mutiny.

Between 1814 and 1836, Raine captained the Surrey for four voyages and was reported as evidently a man of advanced humanitarian outlook.