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.

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 ...

Fleet Week - long a popular event in New York and San Francisco - is coming to Houston for the first time. It will run Nov. 9-16 as the country celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Navy ...

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 ...

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.