Lady Penrhyn
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The Lady Penrhyn was a First Fleet transport ship built in England in 1786 . It transported 101 female convicts and 42 Royal Marines under the command of Captain William Cropton Sever with his crew of 20 to 30 seamen to the convict colony of Australia . The Lady Penrhyn was one of eleven ships in the First Fleet that carried the largest number of female convicts.
The Lady Penrhyn began admitting female convicts as early as January 6, 1787. There were problems and Arthur Phillip , the commander of the First Fleet and later governor of New South Wales , gave the order to separate men and women. In order to reinforce his instructions, five women were put in irons. However, Phillip could not prevent the love affairs of female convicts from developing with officers of the Royal Marines , for example with George Johnston , Philip Gidley King , Ralph Clark and David Collins , the later lieutenant governor of Tasmania .
The Lady Penrhyn cast off on May 13, 1787 together with the First Fleet in Portsmouth . On the ship there were several shortages with regard to food and sufficient clothing for the women. For example, as of January 11, 1788, there was no longer any food on board, and everyone on the ship lived exclusively from fishing.
The Lady Penrhyn was the slowest ship in the fleet and did not arrive in Botany Bay until January 20, 1778 with a further seven ships . Arthur Phillip had already arrived with four faster ships and had found that Botany Bay was not suitable for building settlements. The First Fleet sailed to Port Jackson on January 26 and anchored there because the area was more suitable. It was not until February 6, 1778, that Lady Pentrhyn's female convicts could go ashore.
On May 5, 1788, the Lady Penrhyn set sail from Port Jackson for China. She was supposed to be transporting tea for the British East India Company . On this voyage, she first anchored off Lord Howe Island in order to take food there, as this was extremely scarce in the colony. She reached her destination in October 1788.
The ship transported goods on the shipping route London - Jamaica until 1811, before it was boarded and set on fire by a French privateer in the West Indies . She got lost.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicole Cama: Lady Penrhyn . In: Dictionary of Sydney . Dictionary of Sydney Trust. 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2016.