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Ship Details

Rig

Flag Ship of 1st Fleet

Built

1781

Built In

Tonnage

612

Built By

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Description

HMS Sirius was the flagship of the First Fleet, which set out from Portsmouth, England, in 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales, Australia. In 1790, the ship was wrecked on the reef, south east of Kingston Pier, in Slaughter Bay, Norfolk Island.

Media

Sources

Reference

Captain's and Master's logs, 1786 - 1788

Location

Australian Joint Copying Project Public Record Office 5736 or 5737 and 1604

Reference

Arthur Phillip - The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay: with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (published as the official account of the expedition, London 1789 and Sydney 1970)

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Reference

Captain John Hunter's journal 25/10/1786 - 22/05/1791 (facsimile edition by the William Dixson Foundation, 1969)

Location

Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney MS 164

Reference

John Hunter - An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (London 1793 and Adelaide 1968)

Location

Reference

Journal 15/10/1786 - 19/03/1790 by Lieutenant William Bradley

Location

Mitchell Library, Sydney safe 1/14 and copy

Reference

William Bradley - A Voyage to New South Wales: The Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley, RN of HMS Sirius, 1786 - 1792 (Sydney 1969)

Location

Reference

Private journal, 1786 - 1790 by Lieutenant PG King, and published as - The Journal of Philip Gidley King, Lieutenant, RN, 1787 - 1790 (Australia 1980)

Location

Manuscript in Mitchell Library, Sydney safe 1/16

Reference

David Collins - An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales (two volumes) (London 1798 and Sydney 1975), including an account of the First Fleet voyage

Location

Reference

Log and Journal and Letters, December 1787 to May 1791 by Daniel Southwell, Mate

Location

British Museum, London and Australian Joint Copying Project M 1538 and references in Historical Records of New South Wales, V.2 and Historic Records of Australia I/v/I

Reference

Letters, 1786 - 1790 by Midshipman Newton D Fowell and published as - The Sirius Letters (edited by Nancy Irvine) ( Sydney 1988)

Location

Mitchell Library, Sydney ZMSS 4895

Reference

Diary, 1786 - 1794 by Chaplain Richard Johnson and copy, further diary of 06/08/1794

Location

Moore Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London

Reference

Journal, 20/01/1788 - 11/07/1788 and Letter by Surgeon GB Worgan and published as - Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1978)

Location

Mitchell Library, Sydney C830

Reference

Journal of William Dew, Sergeant of Marines, part published as - A First Fleet Family (edited by L Becke and W Jeffery) (London 1896)

Reference

Journal by Lieutenant Ralph Clark, of Marines, published as - The Journal and Letters of Lt Ralph Clark, 1787 - 1792 (Sydney 1981)

Location

Original in Mitchell Library, Sydney

Reference

Log of Logs, Vol 3

Location

South Australian Maritime Museum

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