Borrowdale (ship)
 The Borrowdale in three views
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The Borrowdale , a three-masted square-sail ship , was built in 1785 in Sunderland , England . This ship was one of three transport ships in the First Fleet that did not transport convicts and settlers, but rather food and goods. In addition to Borrowdale , these were the Fishburn and Golden Grove , which with their cargo should enable the people in the convict colony of Australia to survive for two years. The Borrowdale had a loading capacity of 272 tons.
The Borrowdale , under the command of Hobson Reed , left Portsmouth with 17 crew members on May 13, 1787 together with the First Fleet. The way led the eleven ships via Tenerife , Rio de Janeiro, around the Cape of Good Hope , through the Indian Ocean and past Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). Arthur Phillip , the commander of the First Fleet, sailed ahead with the four faster ships to prepare for the arrival of the other ships. Phillip arrived at Botany Bay on January 19, 1788 . The slow convoy of ships with the Borrowdale reached the bay on January 20, 1788. On January 26, 1788, the entire fleet sailed on to Port Jackson because it had turned out that Botany Bay was not suitable for the development of the colony.
The Borrowdale cast off on July 14, 1788 together with the ships Alexander , Prince of Wales and Friendship on their return journey to England. The convoy of ships was under the command of Lieutenant John Shortland . On the way back, the convoy of ships disintegrated, the faster Borrowdale hurrying ahead. Scurvy broke out on the ship . Four crew members died and after arriving in Rio de Janeiro eight seriously ill crew members had to be hospitalized. On December 24, 1788, the Borrowdale and the Prince of Wales cast off again, which had meanwhile also arrived in Rio de Janeiro on October 20, 1788. They reached Falmouth on March 22, 1789 as the first ships of the First Fleet back to England.
The Borrowdale was then used as a necklace and sank on October 31, 1789 in a storm off Norfolk . It tore Captain Reed and his entire crew into the depths.
In 1999, a Borrowdale seal was discovered in a Dorset antique shop .
Footnotes
- ^ Penny Edwell: Borrowdale . In: Dictionary of Sydney . Dictionary of Sydney Trust. 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2016.