First Fleet
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The First Fleet were eleven British ships which transported a group of settlers to mainland Australia, marking the beginning of the European colonisation of Australia. It consisted of two Royal Navy v
Engraving of the First Fleet in Botany Bay at voyage's end in 1788
Lady Penrhyn
First Fleet, Cape Town, Table Mountain, South Africa, November 1787
Entrance of Port Jackson, 27 January 1788, by William Bradley, an officer on HMS Sirius
Henry Lidgbird Ball
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Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Lidgbird Ball was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. While Ball was best known as the commander of the First Fleet's HMAT S
Silhouette of Henry Lidgbird Ball
Tomb at Petersham in Richmond, London.