A group of humans is called a group, crowd or assembly.
WHAT IS A GROUP OF ATHLETES CALLED
A group of penguins is called a colony, rookery, or a waddle. But that is only for penguins on land. A group of penguins in the water is called a raft.
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A series.
The collective noun for a group of convicts is a chain of convicts. Other collective nouns for convicts would be the same as for any group of people; examples are a crowd, a group, a gang, an organization, a colony, a class, etc.
They were simply called "convicts".
Convicts
The First Fleet carried the first group of convicts to Australia. It was followed later by the Second and Third fleets, but after that, shiploads of convicts sailed independently or in pairs.
The convicts did not wash regularly, as they had only a bucket of water daily for their needs, and this was shared between a group of convicts. Water was far too precious a commodity to be given to convicts for washing.
The ships which housed convicts in England during the 1700s were called hulks.
Convicts, vagabonds.. but primarily convicts, as Australia was originally used as a penal colony.
Convicts called their new clothing "slops".
Western Australia was the last state in Australia to receive convicts. New South Wales had abolished transportation of convicts in 1840.The last convict ship, the "Hougoumont", left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Australia on 10 January 1868.
Transportation.
they are called con or convicts
After the sergeant appears in Great Expectations, the group of men and Pip follows him to try to capture two convicts who have escaped from the prison ship. They navigate the marshes in pursuit of the convicts, leading to a tense and dramatic encounter.