Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from
Parkhurst Prison, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas," but pardoned on arrival at their destination on the conditions that they be "apprenticed" to local employers, and that they not return to
England during the original term of their sentence. Between 1842 and 1849, Western Australia accepted 234 Parkhurst apprentices, all males aged between 10 and 21. As Western Australia was not yet a penal colony, contemporary documents generally avoided referring to the prisoners as "convicts," and the ships that transported them were not officially recognised as convict ships in the colony. English records, however, classified the seven ships that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia as convict ships. This is a list of convict ship voyages that transported Parkhurst apprentices to Western Australia. ==Voyages transporting convicts to Western Australia==