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.
Arthur Phillip
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Arthur Phillip was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
Captain Arthur Phillip, 1786, by Francis Wheatley
HMS Buckingham, Phillip's first posting after joining the Navy in 1755. Vessel pictured on the stocks at Deptford Dockyard on the River Thames, c. 1751. Painting by John Cleveley the Elder. National Maritime Museum, London.
The landing of the First Fleet in Port Jackson, Australia in 1788
The Founding of Australia By Capt. Arthur Phillip R.N., Sydney Cove, Jan. 26th 1788. Painting by Algernon Talmage, 1937.