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The First Fleet:
a timeline
of the journey
13 May 1787 : sailed from Portsmouth, England.
3 June 1787 : arrived at Tenerife in the Canary Islands,
stayed a week and took on supplies of fresh food
5 July 1787: crossed the Equator
7 August 1787: arrived at Rio de Janeiro, stayed for
a month repairing sails, collecting plants and seeds to be grown
in New South Wales.
13 October 1787: reached Table Bay,(now CapeTown), Cape of Good Hope after surviving tremendous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Stayed a month, and took on livestock (horses, sheep, goats).
25 December 1787: the Fleet was in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
1 January 1788: Adventure Bay, Van Diemen's Land
18 January 1788 : arrived at Botany Bay after sailing
south of Van Diemen's Land, then north to New South Wales. It was decided that Botany Bay was not a suitable site for the settlement because water supply and soils were poor. The Fleet sailed on.
26 January 1788 : The First Fleet went ashore at Port Jackson to start a settlement.
Go here to see a list of the livestock and provisions carried by the First Fleet
Life onboard the convict ships
These two sites tell that life was crowded and cramped for the convicts who were housed, for long periods of time, behind bars and often chained. For parts of the journey conditions below decks were hot and humid. Diseases such as dysentery and scurvy broke out.
http://mattstodayinhistory.blogspot.com/2007/05/first-fleet-sets-sail-for-australia-may.html
http://members.iinet.com.au/~perthdps/convicts/res-08.html
Click here to find a map of the journey taken by the First Fleet: http://cedir.uow.edu.au/programs/FirstFleet/s_map.html
Here are some links to other sites about the First Fleet:
http://www.australianhistory.org/
http://www.jag10.freeserve.co.uk/1788.htm
http://www.cowan.edu.au/pa/ecawa/resource/ffleet/ships/ships.htm
http://fmpro.uow.edu.au/FirstFleet/advanced.htm
http://cedir.uow.edu.au/programs/FirstFleet/s_rations.html
http://cedir.uow.edu.au/programs/FirstFleet/stories.html
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/ships.html
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/confem.html
Acknowledge this source in your bibliography like
this:
Thomas, Ron & Sydenham, Shirley. Timeline:The journey of the First Fleet. [Online] www.kidcyber.com.au (2010)
May 2010