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The fate of spending weary months on a prison hulk was not accorded to Nigel Lording. From Newgate, clothed in convict garb and heavily ironed as befitted a "lifer," he was conveyed, with a number of other felons, to a transport riding at anchor off Spithead awaiting orders to set sail. The transport was the Ringarooma. She was chartered to carry a consignment of incorrigible rogues such as prison breakers and "lifers," or those not amenable to discipline, to Moreton Bay. It was, therefore, to this vessel of 452 tons that Nigel Lording was consigned.
She had on board a strong guard of soldiers, consisting of one officer and 30 men, to keep the convicts in order.