The Eleven Ships in the First Fleet
consisted of two Naval ships, six transports for convicts and three storeships for supplies.
HMS Sirius, flagship, naval warship, 20 guns, 540 tons, 110ft long, 32ft wide, carried 160 people
HMS Supply, Naval tender, 80 guns, 170 tons, 70ft long, 26ft wide
Scarborough,
transport, 430 ton, 111ft long, 30ft. wide, carried 208 male convicts
Alexander, transport, 452 tons, 114ft long, 31ft wide, carried 88
male convicts
Lady Penrhyn, transport, 333 tons, 103ft long27ft wide, carried 101 female
convicts
Prince of Wales, transport, 350 tons, 103ft long, 29ft wide, carried 1 male
and 49 female convicts
Friendship, transport, 274 tons, carried 76 male and 21 female convicts
Charlotte, transport, 335 tons, 105ft long, 28ft wide, carried 88
male and 20 female convicts
Fishburn, storeship, 378 tons
Golden Grove, storeship, 375 tons
Borrowdale, storeship, 375 tons
The few relics of the First
Fleet that can be seen today include Rev. Richard Johnsons bible and prayer book, now held at St.Phillips Church, Sydney,
and the anchor and cannon of the Sirius, salvaged in 1890 from Norfolk Island and now on display at Darling Harbour,
Sydney.
Taken from The First Fleet and year of Settlement
by