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Sirius, Supply & Convoy : Needle Point ENE 3 miles. Hyaena in Company 13 May 1787

By
William Bradley
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a3461001 / Safe 1/14, Opp p 13]
(Drawings from William Bradley's journal 'A Voyage to New South Wales', December 1786 - May 1792; compiled 1802+', Mitchell Library)

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Bradley, William

State Library of New South Wales

HMS Supply

HMS Supply was the smallest and fastest ship in the First Fleet. A naval vessel, she carried 16 marines and accompanied the flagship HMS Sirius on the voyage to Sydney Cove. Over the next three years she made 11 more voyages, the last causing her so much damage that she was ordered back to England. She reached Plymouth on 21 April 1792.

Ships

HMS Sirius

Flagship of the First Fleet, which arrived in Sydney in 1788, and was wrecked off Norfolk Island in 1790.

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HMS Supply

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The oldest and smallest First Fleet ship. Built in 1759 as an armed trader of 175 tons it became the only link with the outside world after the loss of the HMS Sirius in 1790.

First Fleet

Fleet of eleven ships which left England in 1787 to found a penal colony in Australia. It consisted of two Royal Navy Vessels, three store ships and six convict transports which carried over 1000 convicts, marines and seamen to the colony.

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