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
An engraving of the First Fleet in Botany Bay at voyage's end in 1788, from The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay. Sirius is in the foreground; convict transports such as Prince of Wales are to the left.
Lieutenant John Shortland, commander of convoy of First Fleet ships on the return voyage to England in 1788
HMS Sirius (1786)
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HMS Sirius was a 10-gun sloop-of-war of the Royal Navy, launched in 1781 as the merchant ship Berwick. She was the flagship of the First Fleet, which sailed from Portsmouth, England, in 1787 to establ
The melancholy loss of HMS Sirius off Norfolk Island March 19th 1790, George Raper
The last letter by Lapérouse, which was returned to Europe by HMS Andrew.
The HMS Sirius memorial in the Sydney suburb of Mosman.
Anchor from HMS Sirius in Sydney.