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Visitors looking at the First Fleet Ships display

The First Fleet

In August 1786, the Royal Navy captain Arthur Phillip received official instructions to prepare a convoy of ships for the ‘conveyance of seven hundred and fifty convicts to Botany Bay, together with such provisions, necessaries and implements for agriculture as may be necessary for their use after their arrival’

  • First Fleet
  • Convicts
  • Convict transportation
First Fleet ship models, Museum of Sydney

First Fleet Ships

This display explores the journey, arrival and first contacts of this fleet’s largely unwilling human cargo

  • Museum of Sydney

First Fleet ships

At the time of the First Fleet’s voyage there were some 12,000 British commercial and naval ships plying the world’s oceans

  • Learning
  • Stage 2
  • History
Venues shoot at the Museum of Sydney

Warrane Theatre & First Fleet Gallery

Fixed tiered seating and fully integrated audiovisual facilities make an ideal venue for conferences and the flexible foyer is perfect for post-networking cocktails

  • Museum
  • Modern
  • Theatre
Venues shoot at the Museum of Sydney

Warrane Theatre & First Fleet Gallery

Fixed tiered seating and fully integrated audiovisual facilities make an ideal venue for conferences and the flexible foyer is perfect for post-networking cocktails

  • Museum
  • Modern
  • Theatre
Venues shoot at the Museum of Sydney

Governor Phillip Hall & First Fleet Gallery

Spend a night at the museum amongst a dramatically lit backdrop of sandstone and limewashed brick

  • Museum
  • Modern
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20 Jan 1788 - First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay

On 20 January 1788 the last of the eleven ships of the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay

  • Convict transportation
  • Convicts
  • On this day
  • First Fleet
Model ship, Supply, made by Lynne and Laurie Hadley, Australia, 1997-2000, timber and paint

HMAT Supply

Length: 21.3 metres (70 feet); width: 7.9 metres (26 feet); weight: 173 tonnes (170 tons)

  • First Fleet
  • Learning
Photograph of a wooden model depicting a First Fleet ship.

HMS Sirius

Length 35.5 metres (110 feet); width: 9.8 metres (32 feet) weight: 549 tonnes (540 tons)

  • First Fleet
  • Learning

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