HMS Supply (1759)
The HMS Supply was built in 1759 as an armed supply ship, had two masts and displaced 175 tons. For 27 years she transported marine supplies between the Thames and the canal ports .
Demarcation
Eight ships in the British Royal Navy were named HMS Supply . The third supply played an important role in the British settlement of the convict colony in Australia .
First Fleet
As the oldest and smallest ship of the First Fleet , she left Portsmouth on May 13, 1787 and reached Botany Bay on January 18, 1788 . Their commanding officer was Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball and the ship's doctor was James Callam . After the British established a colony in Port Jackson, she served as a liaison ship to the colony in Norfolk Island and made 10 trips there. After the loss of Sirius , she was the colony's only connection with the outside world. On April 17, 1790 she was sent to Bataviasent to get supplies. On September 19, she returned with the Dutch ship Waaksamheid , chartered for additional transport capacity . The Supply left Port Jackson on November 26, 1791 and sailed via Cape Horn to Plymouth , where it arrived on April 21, 1792.
It was auctioned in July 1792 and renamed Thomas and Nancy and transported coal in the Thames area until 1806.
Individual evidence
- ^ HMS Supply , October 15, 2011, at firstfleetfellowship.org.au. Retrieved June 26, 2016
- ↑ David Morgang: HMS Supply , 2015, on dictionaryofsydney.org. Retrieved June 26, 2016