Produced in two parts- Part 1- More than 3300 entries arranged alphabetically by name with full details of ship, date of arrival, and all details noted in the records, such as age, occupation etc.

Part 2- organized alphabetically by ship giving all details of passengers and crew on board,

extracted from surviving records.

These entries were extracted from several sources, most of which have never been indexed or published before, such as Journals of Surgeon Superintendents of Convict Ships' Muster and Other Papers relating to Convict Ships; Crew Lists, Convict Indents and Shipping columns in Sydney newspapers etc.

In the introduction there is a useful table listing all the convict ships which arrived in Sydney during this period arranged chronologically, giving Master, Surgeon Superintendent and numbers of convicts, free passengers, military regiments and families on board.