I would think the captain might have been a bit worried about the state of sexual health of the convicts he was carrying tho, Dick ~~ but I suppose that would have applied to his 'out of hand' bride in the first place; but however 'out of hand', I should have thought he might have got the ship's surgeon to give her an FFI* once-over, eh?

~M~

* Any of you old enough to be ex-NatService will know what that is!