and 78 female convicts on 19 January 1790. At some point on the voyage Gilbert died and his replacement as master was Donald Traill; the surgeon was William Gray. She arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 13 April 1790, and spent sixteen days there, taking on provisions, and twelve male convicts from HMS Guardian, which had been wrecked after striking an iceberg. heavy weather resulted in Neptune and Scarborough parting from Surprize, with Neptune arriving at Port Jackson on 28 June, 160 days out from England. During the voyage 147 male and 11 female convicts died, for a total death rate of 31%; 269 (53%) were sick when landed. The treatment of convicts aboard Neptune was quite harsh. Convicts suspected of petty theft were flogged to death and most convicts remained chained below decks for the duration of the voyage. Scurvy and other diseases were endemic and the food rations were pitiful. Neptune had the second highest death rate among all convict voyages. Neptune returned to Britain on 27 October 1791. Trial Well after their return to England, on 9 June 1792 Donald Traill and Chief Mate, William Ellerington were privately prosecuted for the murder of an unnamed convict, along with a seaman named Andrew Anderson and a cook named John Joseph. After a trial lasting three hours before Sir James Marriott in the Admiralty Court, the jury acquitted both men on all charges "without troubling the Judge to sum up the evidence". There were no public prosecutions as public prosecutions in Britain did not exist until 1880. Later, the lawyer who brought the charge was struck from the Rolls. Notable arrivals Amongst the arrivals on this voyage was D'Arcy Wentworth. He had made one of the convicts, Catherine Crowley, pregnant and subsequently William Wentworth was born on Norfolk Island. John Macarthur, his wife Elizabeth, and their son Edward Macarthur left England on Neptune but transferred to Scarborough after a quarrel with the captain. A photograph of Edward Macarthur exists, and is the only known photo of a passenger on Neptune. Sarah Cobcroft (née Smith), de facto wife of convict John Cobcroft, also arrived aboard Neptune. She was a midwife and later pioneer farmer of Wilberforce, New South Wales. Molly Morgan, born Mary Jones, was another convict who sailed to Australia on the Neptune. Fate Neptune was last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1796 with T. Gilbert, master,