Eleven ships were prepared for the voyage to New South Wales. Six would transport convicts: The Alexander, the Friendship ... who came to Australia on the First Fleet.

The severe storm was yet another taste of the ferocious weather that slammed the First Fleet as ... from England in a ship riddled with death and disease, the passengers’ introduction to ...

A bottle of wine was broken across a mass of gray metal in Mobile, Alabama, on Saturday, as the United States Navy unveiled the only ship ... The first Canberra was also in the US fleet when ...

The wreck of a First Fleet ship which once carried Governor Phillip has been given National Heritage status. THE WRECK OF THE HMS Sirius, the mother ship of the First Fleet, has been given National ...

a journalist with a passion for ships and the sea, I wondered if there was need for yet another account of Captain Arthur Phillip and his brilliant leadership of the First Fleet. Phillip died ...

11 ships were prepared for the voyage to New South Wales. Six would transport convicts — they were the Alexander, the Friendship ... with the first group of prisoners on the First Fleet.