Fishburn

This article deals with the ship, for the mathematician and economist see Peter Fishburn

The Fishburn was the largest of the three supply ships of the First Fleet , the first English settler fleet in Australia with a capacity of 378 tons. The ship was built in Whitby in 1780 . It ran on May 13, 1787 under the command of Captain Robert Brown from Portsmouth and reached Port Jackson on January 26, 1788. On November 19, 1788 it left Port Jackson together with the Golden Grove , with which it was until April 11 Sailed together in 1789. The Fishburn stayed in the Falkland Islands for a few days so that some of the crew members, who were seriously ill with scurvy, could recover . On May 25, 1789, the Fishburn arrived back in England.

Namesake and builder may have been the shipbuilder Thomas Fishburn (1750-1800?), Who worked in the Whitby shipyard and who had already built some ships for James Cook's second voyage to the South Seas.