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The use of convict ships to New South Wales began on 18 August 1786, when the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and civilian personnel to Botany Bay. Transportation to the Colony of New South Wales was finally officially abolished on 1 October 1850. [ 1 ]
Seeking to pre-empt the French colonial empire from expanding into the region, Britain chose Australia as the site of a penal colony, and in 1787, the First Fleet of eleven convict ships set sail for Botany Bay, arriving on 20 January 1788 to found Sydney, New South Wales, the first European settlement on the continent.
Joseph Holt (1756–1826), Irish farmer and rebel leader, transported to New South Wales for his role in the Irish Rebellion of 1798; William Horton (1817–1864), English publican, transported to New South Wales for larceny of a coat [4] [5] George Howe (1769–1821), English poet and printer, transported to New South Wales for shoplifting
The First Fleet convicts are named on stone tablets in the Memorial Garden, Wallabadah, New South Wales. The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788. The ships departed with an estimated 775 convicts (582 men and 193 ...
Convict ships to New South Wales; A. Active (1764 ship) Adamant (1811 ship) Admiral Gambier (1807 ship) Adrian (1819 ship) Æolus (1783 ship) Agamemnon (1811 ship)
The Second Fleet was a convoy of six ships carrying settlers, convicts and supplies to Sydney Cove, Australia in 1790.It followed the First Fleet which established European settlement in Australia on 26 January 1788.
Dorothy was a merchant ship built at Liverpool, England, in 1815. [1] She made a number of voyages between England and India with cargo and undertook one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales.
The first ship to arrive in Sydney was the Mary Ann with its cargo of female convicts and provisions on 9 July 1791. Mary Ann had sailed on her own to Sydney Cove , and there is some argument about whether she was the last ship of the Second Fleet , or the first ship of the Third Fleet, or simply sailing independently, as was HMS Gorgon .