Journals of the First Fleet
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There are 20 known contemporary accounts of the First Fleet made by people sailing in the fleet, including journals and letters. The eleven ships of the fleet, carrying over 1,000 convicts, soldiers a
The First Fleet sailing into Botany Bay, an engraving from the published diary of Arthur Phillip
Drawing of an emu from his journal
William Bradley's journal
The first page of John Easty's journal
Prince of Wales (1786 ship)
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Prince of Wales was a transport ship in the First Fleet, assigned to transport convicts for the European colonisation of Australia. Accounts differ regarding her origins; she may have been built and l
Lieutenant John Shortland, commander of convoy of First Fleet ships on the return voyage to England in 1788
