FRIENDSHIP First Fleet
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:55 am
1784 Was built in Scarborough as a wooden two masted brig rigged vessel, not an owner given.
Launched as FRIENDSHIP.
Tonnage 274 tons (bm), with a length of 22.86 metres.
August 1786 was she chartered by the Navy Board for a voyage as a transport to Botany Bay.
She was fitted out at Deptford on the Thames River, and then sailed to Plymouth were her 76 male and 21 female prisoners embarked.
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13 May 1787 she under command of Captain Francis Walton and the other vessels of the First Fleet sailed from the Solent.
The female prisoners proved difficult to control and prostitution could not be prevented during the voyage
During the voyage around 10 women on the FRIENDSHIP came in trouble, one woman was flogged and one of the woman convicts was so foul mouthed that her hands were tied behind her back and she was gagged for some time. Also there was a lot of fighting between these 10 women convicts, the other women convicts behaved well. Not much is given on the male convicts other than that they never have seen so many rascals together, but that she behaved well.
During bad weather the FRIENDSHIP was a wet ship and the hatches had to be battened down, making life very miserable for the convicts. The ship rolled so much that regular her sides were under water, and the seas broke on deck, even when the wind dropped there was not much relief in the high swell, and no wind in the sails to steady her.
28 September she made her best run when she made 188 miles in 24 hours.
The sheep on board the FRIENDSHIP were not better off, running out of fodder she were slowly dying.
19th January 1788 the FRIENDSHIP together with the ALEXANDER and SCARBOROUGH entered Botany Bay and anchored in the bay near the HMS SUPPLY, after a voyage of 15,063 miles.
26 January 1788 the decision was made to sail around to Sydney Cove to build the new settlement, and the complete fleet left the same day Botany Bay bound for Port Jackson.
When leaving the narrow entrance of Botany Bay with the wind against them the FRIENDSHIP came in collision with PRINCE OF WALES in which the FRIENDSHIP lost her jib-boom.
On arrival at Port Jackson disembarkation commenced and life stock and stores landed.
13 or 14th July the FRIENDSHIP together with the ALEXANDER, PRINCE OF WALES and the store ship BORROWDALE sailed from Port Jackson bound for Canton, during the voyage scurvy broke out on board the FRIENDSHIP and ALEXANDER, and as insufficient able men were left to work both vessels, the decision was made to scuttle the FRIENDSHIP, she was scuttled on 28 October 1788 in the Straits of Makassar, Indonesia and the crew transferred to the ALEXANDER.
Norfolk Islands 1987 55c sg422, scott? (she is the ship most left on the stamps).
For identity of all ships click here: http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=10907
Source: The Convict Ships 1788-1868 by Charles Batteson. Ships of the East India Company by Rowan Hackman
Launched as FRIENDSHIP.
Tonnage 274 tons (bm), with a length of 22.86 metres.
August 1786 was she chartered by the Navy Board for a voyage as a transport to Botany Bay.
She was fitted out at Deptford on the Thames River, and then sailed to Plymouth were her 76 male and 21 female prisoners embarked.
.
13 May 1787 she under command of Captain Francis Walton and the other vessels of the First Fleet sailed from the Solent.
The female prisoners proved difficult to control and prostitution could not be prevented during the voyage
During the voyage around 10 women on the FRIENDSHIP came in trouble, one woman was flogged and one of the woman convicts was so foul mouthed that her hands were tied behind her back and she was gagged for some time. Also there was a lot of fighting between these 10 women convicts, the other women convicts behaved well. Not much is given on the male convicts other than that they never have seen so many rascals together, but that she behaved well.
During bad weather the FRIENDSHIP was a wet ship and the hatches had to be battened down, making life very miserable for the convicts. The ship rolled so much that regular her sides were under water, and the seas broke on deck, even when the wind dropped there was not much relief in the high swell, and no wind in the sails to steady her.
28 September she made her best run when she made 188 miles in 24 hours.
The sheep on board the FRIENDSHIP were not better off, running out of fodder she were slowly dying.
19th January 1788 the FRIENDSHIP together with the ALEXANDER and SCARBOROUGH entered Botany Bay and anchored in the bay near the HMS SUPPLY, after a voyage of 15,063 miles.
26 January 1788 the decision was made to sail around to Sydney Cove to build the new settlement, and the complete fleet left the same day Botany Bay bound for Port Jackson.
When leaving the narrow entrance of Botany Bay with the wind against them the FRIENDSHIP came in collision with PRINCE OF WALES in which the FRIENDSHIP lost her jib-boom.
On arrival at Port Jackson disembarkation commenced and life stock and stores landed.
13 or 14th July the FRIENDSHIP together with the ALEXANDER, PRINCE OF WALES and the store ship BORROWDALE sailed from Port Jackson bound for Canton, during the voyage scurvy broke out on board the FRIENDSHIP and ALEXANDER, and as insufficient able men were left to work both vessels, the decision was made to scuttle the FRIENDSHIP, she was scuttled on 28 October 1788 in the Straits of Makassar, Indonesia and the crew transferred to the ALEXANDER.
Norfolk Islands 1987 55c sg422, scott? (she is the ship most left on the stamps).
For identity of all ships click here: http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=10907
Source: The Convict Ships 1788-1868 by Charles Batteson. Ships of the East India Company by Rowan Hackman