Andrew Smith R. N.,
Convict Ship Surgeon-Superintendent
Andrew Smith was appointed Surgeon in the Royal Navy in 1796. He was entered in the Navy List of Medical Officers in 1814.
Surgeon Superintendent
He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the General Stewart in 1818.The General Stewart departed Portsmouth with 246 male prisoners on 19th July 1818, touched at St. Helena where she remained six days.
Three convicts died on the passage out also one sailor and a boy belonging to the ship was drowned. This was Andrew Smith's only voyage as Surgeon Superintendent on a convict ship.
Port Jackson
After a tedious passage of more than 5 months, the General Stewart arrived in Port Jackson on 31st December 1818.Andrew Smith returned to England on the Shipley in April 1819. Unusually, seven other naval surgeons returned on the same vessel - Robert Espie, William Hamilton, Thomas C. Roylance, Henry Ryan, Morgan Price, John Johnston and John Whitmarsh [1].
References
[1] Ancestry.com. Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825. Copies of Letters sent within the Colony. April 1819↑