BORROWDALE (First Fleet)
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:53 pm
1785 Built in Sunderland as a wooden ship rigged cargo vessel for the ship-owner Leighton & Co.
Launched as BORROWDALE.
Tonnage 272 ton. Dim. 22.86 x 6.70m.
1786 Chartered by the Navy Board for a voyage from the U.K. to Botany Bay, New South Wales.
Fitted out as a transport.
13 May 1787 the BORROWDALE sailed from the Solent together with the other vessels of the First Fleet to Botany Bay. She was under command of Captain Hobson Reed, 24 crew and passengers,
26 July during a gale she lost her fore-topgallant sail.
October 1787 she lost one of the ship boats near Penguin Islands.
After leaving Cape Town it was given she lost many chickens on diseases during the voyage to Botany Bay.
20 January 1788 she anchored in Botany Bay. The site was decided to be unsuitable for establishing a settlement the 11 ships in the fleet moved to Port Jackson where she arrived on 26 January.
After discharging her life-stock, stores and equipment needed for the new settlement. She sailed from Port Jackson on 14 July 1788 bound for England.
She sailed together with the ALEXANDER, FRIENDSHIP and PRINCE OF WALES for a northerly course but two days out of Port Jackson bad weather and heavy winds struck the four ships and the BORROWDALE lost contact and abandoned the northerly course, and headed south under New Zealand and around Cape Horn, due to scurvy 5 sailors died and she had to make a call at Rio de Janeiro where the crew was so weakened on arrival that some sailors from Rio had to bring her to the anchorage.
26 March 1789 she arrived in Portsmouth.
The BORROWDALE after her return was used again in the cargo trade from the U.K but that was very short.
30 October 1789 she sank during a heavy gale off Great Yarmouth Roads, Norfolk, with the loss of all hands except one.
Norfolk Island 1987 55c sg422. scott?
Also http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=10907
Source: Various web-sites. http://72.47.200.96/auctions/lot?id=260301 The Convict Ships 1788-1868 by Charles Bateson.
Launched as BORROWDALE.
Tonnage 272 ton. Dim. 22.86 x 6.70m.
1786 Chartered by the Navy Board for a voyage from the U.K. to Botany Bay, New South Wales.
Fitted out as a transport.
13 May 1787 the BORROWDALE sailed from the Solent together with the other vessels of the First Fleet to Botany Bay. She was under command of Captain Hobson Reed, 24 crew and passengers,
26 July during a gale she lost her fore-topgallant sail.
October 1787 she lost one of the ship boats near Penguin Islands.
After leaving Cape Town it was given she lost many chickens on diseases during the voyage to Botany Bay.
20 January 1788 she anchored in Botany Bay. The site was decided to be unsuitable for establishing a settlement the 11 ships in the fleet moved to Port Jackson where she arrived on 26 January.
After discharging her life-stock, stores and equipment needed for the new settlement. She sailed from Port Jackson on 14 July 1788 bound for England.
She sailed together with the ALEXANDER, FRIENDSHIP and PRINCE OF WALES for a northerly course but two days out of Port Jackson bad weather and heavy winds struck the four ships and the BORROWDALE lost contact and abandoned the northerly course, and headed south under New Zealand and around Cape Horn, due to scurvy 5 sailors died and she had to make a call at Rio de Janeiro where the crew was so weakened on arrival that some sailors from Rio had to bring her to the anchorage.
26 March 1789 she arrived in Portsmouth.
The BORROWDALE after her return was used again in the cargo trade from the U.K but that was very short.
30 October 1789 she sank during a heavy gale off Great Yarmouth Roads, Norfolk, with the loss of all hands except one.
Norfolk Island 1987 55c sg422. scott?
Also http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=10907
Source: Various web-sites. http://72.47.200.96/auctions/lot?id=260301 The Convict Ships 1788-1868 by Charles Bateson.