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Resources transported with the First Fleet using sources as evidence

"...The three store ships of the First Fleet of 1787 were heavily laden with supplies for the projected two years estimated as the waiting period before crops grew, cattle thrived and stores from England arrived to relieve the settlement..."

Author Nance Irvine, January 1988

Overview of First Fleet supply ships

  • Golden Grove

  • Fishburn

  • Borrowdale

Arthur Philip - Commander

  • Restocking supplies at Teneriffe - Fresh water , meat and vegetables

  • Restocking supplies at Rio de Janeiro

  • Restocking supplies at the Cape of Good Hope

Watkin Tench - Marine Officer

  • Victuallers (supply ships carrying food, drink and other stores)

  • Restocking food and livestock at land-based markets 

  • Livestock for the new settlement

  • Supplies lacking or withheld due to government regulation

John White Esq
Arthur Bowes-Smyth

  • Restocking supplies at Rio de Janeiro

  • Death of livestock

Newton Fowell, Midshipman

  • ​​Fresh meat, vegetables & wine

  • Dehydration, water rationing

  • Scurvy

  • ​​Fresh meat, vegetables & wine

  • Dehydration, water rationing

  • Scurvy

Newton Fowell

Midshipman ~ Lieutenant

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