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When Friendship came back to England the crew got Scurvy and with no-one to man the ship, Friendship sunk in the Straits of Macassar, on the 28th of October 1788.

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Prisons were overcrowded in convicts in the prison. So convicts had to stay in hulks, large ships docked at the River Thames (pronounced (river tems) but they got crowded too. They did send convicts to North America but they couldn't take in any more.

Captain James Cook had just discovered a new land he called 'Australia' they decided to send them there. So that's how the First Fleet begun.

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Convicts were given 3kg of beef, 1.3kg of maize and 0.9kg of sugar each week. The food was rationed between the colony.

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Convict Transport- Fully Rigged Ship

350 tons, 103ft long, 29ft wide

Arrived with 3 Male, 63 Female (dv 1) Convicts

+ 3 Convict’s Children

Carried 25 Crew + 29 Marines

Master: John Mason

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Convict Transport

Fully Rigged Ship

430 tons, 111ft long, 30ft wide

Arrived with 201 male Convicts (1dv)

Carried 30 Crew + 50 Marines

Master: John Marshall

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Transport

Fully Rigged Ship

338tons, 103ft long, 27ft wide

Arrived with 102 female convicts, 12 children, Plus 2 male convicts

Carried 32 crew plus 18 Marines

Master: William Cropton Sever

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Brig-Naval Tender-8 Guns

170 tons , 70ft long, 26ft wide.

Arrived with 55 Officers, Crew, Marines & 2 Convicts

Commander: Lt Henry Lidgbird Ball RN

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Flagship - Naval Warship-20 guns,

540 tons, 110ft long, 32ft wide.

Arrived with 198 Officers, Crew, Marines & Families

Captain: John Hunter RN

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Store Ship

331 tons, 103 ft long, 29 ft wide

Carried 22 Crew + 4 Civilians

Master: William Sharpe

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Store Ship

378 tons , 103ft long, 29ft wide.

Carried 22 Crew

Master: Robert Brown

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Convict Transport- 3 Mast Sq Rigged Ship

335 tons, 105ft long, 28ft wide

Arrived with 84 male (dv 4), 24 female Convicts

+6 Convict’s children.

Carried 30 Crew + 42 Marines

Master: Thomas Gilbert

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Store Ship

272 tons , 75 ft long, 22ft wide.

Carried 22 Crew

Master: Hobson Reed

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Convict Transport-Barque built Ship

452 tons , 114ft long, 31ft wide.

Arrived with 177 male Convicts (14 dv)

Carried 30 Crew + 41 Marines

Master: Duncan Sinclair

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Convict Transport -2 Masted Brig

278 tons , 75ft long, 23ft wide.

Arrived with 72 male Convicts (1 dv)

Carried 25 Crew +40 Marines

Master: Francis Walton

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A war ship. (NAVY)

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On the First Fleet there were two warships, HMS Sirius and HMS Supply. HMS means 'Her Majesty's Ship' Supply was built perhaps in America in 1759 and Sirius was burnt in fire and the bottom of Sirius was made of copper.

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There were 11 ships and one was unknown. My favourite store ship was called Golden Grove and my favourite convict ship was a convict one called Friendship.

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A store ship.

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Governor Phillip was disappointed with the Military guards' attitude. By then seven convicts had escaped to the bush, so Philip had decided to create rewards for the convicts so they won't decide to run away. The rewards were:

Conditional pardon-Convicts were set free but weren't allowed to go to England of Ireland.

Absolute Pardon-Convicts can return to Britan, England when served full sentence.

Ticket-Of-Leave: Convicts were set free before the end of their sentence and could own a piece of land and go to church.

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Friendship, a male convict ship

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Borrowdale, a store ship.

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Today in History Herald we are going to talk abut the First Fleet. The First Fleet was when convicts were transported in ships of eleven where they would be sentenced to transport for seven or more years. The journey to Botany Bay, NSW, Australia took about eight months. After leaving England after a few moths the ships landed at Rio De Janeiro to pick up supplies such as food and water.