Scarborough
Convict transport
Less than two weeks after the fleet set sail some of the convicts on Scarborough formed a plot to take over the ship. John WhiteShip surgeonThe tireless concern of Chief Surgeon John White and his assistants on board the 11 First Fleet ships was crucial to the ultimate success of the long voyage.Read more, whose journal was first published in 1790, wrote:
A discovery of a futile scheme, formed by the convicts on board the Scarborough … They had laid a plan for making themselves masters of the ship; but being prevented by this discovery, two of the ringleaders were carried on board the Sirius, where they were punished …
After receiving a flogging of 24 lashes each, ringleaders Phillip Farrell and Thomas Griffiths were transferred to the all-female ship Prince of Wales. According to White, the men ‘behaved very well’ for the rest of the voyage.
Ship size
33.9 metres (111 feet, 6 inches); width: 9.1 metres (30 feet, 2 inches);
Weight
417.5 tonnes (411 tons)
First Fleet Ships
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
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The ships
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Alexander
Length: 34.75 metres (114 feet); width: 9.5 metres (31 feet); weight: 460 tonnes (452 tons)
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Borrowdale
Length: 22.7 metres (75 feet); width 6.7 metres (22 feet); weight: 276 tonnes (272 tons)
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Charlotte
Ship size length: 32 metres (105 feet); width: 8.5 metres (28 feet); weight: 343 tonnes (338 tons)
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Fishburn
Length: 31.4 metres (103 feet); width: 8.8 metres (29 feet wide); weight: 384 tonnes (378 tons)
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Friendship
Length: 22.9 metres (75 feet); width: 7 metres (23 feet); weight: 282 tonnes (278 tons)
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Golden Grove
Length: 31.4 metres (103 feet); width: 8.8 metres (29 feet); weight: 336 tonnes (331 tons)
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HMAT Supply
Length: 21.3 metres (70 feet); width: 7.9 metres (26 feet); weight: 173 tonnes (170 tons)
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HMS Sirius
Length 35.5 metres (110 feet); width: 9.8 metres (32 feet) weight: 549 tonnes (540 tons)
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Lady Penrhyn
Length: 31.3 metres (103 feet); width: 8.2 metres (27 feet); weight: 337 tonnes (333 tons)
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Prince of Wales
Length: 31.3 metres (103 feet); width: 8.8 metres (29 feet); weight: 356 tonnes (350 tons)
First Fleet people
First Fleet Ships
Ambition and adventure: the early life of Arthur Phillip
We looked back at the early life of Phillip, who had enjoyed an extraordinary career before he even set foot on a boat bound for Botany Bay
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David Collins
As secretary to the governor and judge advocate for all legal affairs, he was witness to some of the most important events of the new settlement
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Jacob Nagle
Twenty-five-year-old Able Seaman Jacob Nagle travelled to Australia on board HMS Sirius as a member of the ship’s crew
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James Ruse
Ex-convict James Ruse became the first person in NSW to receive a land grant when Governor Phillip gave him 30 acres at Parramatta in April 1791