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Friday, 13 September 2019

French transport Ceres transporting convicts to French Guyana according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 23 October 1873

An item reported that the last hundred and fifty prisoners of the bagno at Toulon were to be transport with the transport Ceres towards French Guyana. The ship was at that moment at Brest where she was rigged, armed and provided with victuals to depart as soon as possible.