The Voyage to Botany Bay - Hardcover

Phillip, Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 009137880X ISBN 13: 9780091378806

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1982

Synopsis

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Preparation of the feet ordered to Botany Bay.— Particulars of its arrangement.—Departure and pajjage to the Canary Ijles. nr H E fquadron defined to carry into execution the above defign, began to aflemble at its appointed rendezvous, the Mother Bank, within the Ifle of Wight, about, the i6th of March, 1787. This fmall fleet confifced of the following fhips : His Majcfty's frigate Sirius, Captain John Hunter, and his Majefty's armed tender Supply, commanded by Lieutenant H. L. Ball. Three ftore-fhips, the Golden Grove, Fifiburn, and Borrowdale, for carrying provifions and ftores for two years; including inftruments of huf- bandry, clothing for the troops and convicts, and other neceflaries; and laftly, fix tranfports, the Scarborough, and Lady Penrbyn, from Portf- mouth; the Friendjlnp, and Charlotte, from Plymouth j mouth ; the Prince of Wales, and the Alexander, from Woolwich. Thefe were to carry the convicts, with a detachment of Marines in each, proportioned to the nature of the fervice; the largeft where refiftance was moft to be expedited, namely, in thofe fhips which carried the greateft number of male convicts. Altogether they formed a little fquadron of eleven fail. They only who know the nature of fuch equipments, and confider the particular neceffity in the prefent inftance for a variety of articles not ufually provided, can judge properly of the time required for furnifhing out this fleet. Such perfons will doubtlefs be the leaft furprifed at being told that nearly two months had elapfcd before the fhips were enabled to quit this ftation, and proceed upon their voyage: and that even then fome few articles were either unprepared, or, through mif- apprehenfion, neglected. The former circum- ftance took place refpecting fome part of the clothing f...

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Book Description:

This 1789 work is an edited compilation of official papers, journals and illustrations relevant to the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia and the founding of Port Jackson on Sydney Cove, and of the penal colony of Norfolk Island, illustrating the birth of one of the world's great cities.

About the Author:

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a Royal Navy officer, the first Governor of New South Wales and led the colonisation of what is now Australia and founded the British penal colony that later became the city of Sydney, Australia. After much experience at sea, Phillip sailed with the First Fleet as Governor-designate of the proposed British penal colony of New South Wales. In January 1788, he selected its location to be Port Jackson (encompassing Sydney Harbour). Phillip was a far-sighted governor who soon saw that New South Wales would need a civil administration and a system for emancipating the convicts. But his plan to bring skilled tradesmen on the voyage had been rejected, and he faced immense problems of labour, discipline and supply. Also his friendly attitude towards the aborigines was sorely tested when they killed his gamekeeper, and he was not able to assert a clear policy about them. The arrival of the Second and Third Fleets placed new pressures on the scarce local resources, but by the time Phillip sailed home in December 1792, the colony was taking shape, with official land-grants and systematic farming and water-supply. Phillip retired in 1805, but continued to correspond with his friends in New South Wales and to promote the colony's interests.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 009137880X
• ISBN 13: 9780091378806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356