The History Of The Ancient Australian Convict Ship Success And The Story Of The Transportation Of Prisoners From England To Australia
by: N/A

Softcover. Cleveland OH, Jontzen Printing Co, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, printed gray card wrappers, 189 pages, b&w photos. A publication relating to the public tour of the Australian museum ship "Success" which, following a somewhat checkered history in the 1890s, toured North America continually from 1918 until the mid-1930s, offering patrons a sensationalized history of the British convict system. She was destroyed by fire in Lake Erie in 1946 . Though billed by its managers as a former British convict ship and as the "oldest ship afloat," neither was true although she had seen brief service as a prison hulk in the 1850s. Clean copy.