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Saturday 8 March 1788 This day went on shore... from Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal on board the Lady Penrhyn

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Arthur Bowes Smyth
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National Library of Australia
[MS 4568]
(from the Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth, March 22 1787-August 1789)

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Smyth, Arthur Bowes

National Library of Australia

First Fleet

Phillip described the transportation of convicts to New South Wales as a voyage 'to the extremity of the globe'. Having successfully managed both the ships and the convicts, the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove brought Phillip new challenges: how to keep men and women, convicts and alcohol, camp and fleet, apart.

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Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth, 1787 March 22-1789 August

Journal by Arthur Bowes Smyth held in the National Library of Australia (MS 4568) concerning hia voyage to Australia in 1787 on the Lady Penrhyn, his stay in New South Wales and the trip back to England in 1789. Two other fair copies of the journal exist, one at the State Library of New South Wales (ML Safe 1/15) and the other at the British Museum (Add MS 47966)

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Lady Penrhyn

First Fleet transport ship of 333 tons which brought 101 female convicts to Port Jackson in 1788.

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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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