Scarborough
33.9 metres (111 feet, 6 inches); width: 9.1 metres (30 feet, 2 inches); weight: 417.5 tonnes (411 tons)
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. Surgeon General John White, 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.
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