[PDF] A Voyage To Botany Bay 1787 eBook

Author : Watkin Tench
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465610049

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The expedition on which he is engaged has excited much curiosity, and given birth to many speculations, respecting the consequences to arise from it. While men continue to think freely, they will judge variously. Some have been sanguine enough to foresee the most beneficial effects to the Parent State, from the Colony we are endeavouring to establish; and some have not been wanting to pronounce the scheme big with folly, impolicy, and ruin. Which of these predictions will be completed, I leave to the decision of the public. I cannot, however, dismiss the subject without expressing a hope, that the candid and liberal of each opinion, induced by the humane and benevolent intention in which it originated, will unite in waiting the result of a fair trial to an experiment, no less new in its design, than difficult in its execution. As this publication enters the world with the name of the author, candour will, he trusts, induce its readers to believe, that no consideration could weigh with him in an endeavour to mislead them. Facts are related simply as they happened, and when opinions are hazarded, they are such as, he hopes, patient inquiry, and deliberate decision, will be found to have authorised. For the most part he has spoken from actual observation; and in those places where the relations of others have been unavoidably adopted. He has been careful to search for the truth, and repress that spirit of exaggeration which is almost ever the effect of novelty on ignorance. The nautical part of the work is comprized in as few pages as possible. By the professional part of my readers this will be deemed judicious; and the rest will not, I believe, be dissatisfied at its brevity. I beg leave, however, to say of the astronomical calculations, that they may be depended on with the greatest degree of security, as they were communicated by an officer, who was furnished with instruments, and commissioned by the Board of Longitude, to make observations during the voyage, and in the southern hemisphere. An unpractised writer is generally anxious to bespeak public attention, and to solicit public indulgence. Except on professional subjects, military men are, perhaps, too fearful of critical censure. For the present narrative no other apology is attempted, than the intentions of its author, who has endeavoured not only to satisfy present curiosity, but to point out to future adventurers, the favourable, as well as adverse circumstances which will attend their settling here. The candid, it is hoped, will overlook the inaccuracies of this imperfect sketch, drawn amidst the complicated duties of the service in which the Author is engaged, and make due allowance for the want of opportunity of gaining more extensive information.

Author : Alan Frost
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1743820992

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Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British authorities hoped not only to rid Britain of its excess criminals, but also to gain a key strategic outpost and take control of valuable natural resources. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Here, Alan Frost debunks these myths, and shows that the voyage was in fact meticulously planned – reflecting its importance to Britain’s imperial and commercial ambitions. In his examination of the ships, passengers and preparation, Frost reveals the hopes and schemes of those who engineered the voyage, and the experiences of those who made it. The culmination of thirty-five years’ study of previously neglected archives, Botany Bay and the First Fleet offers new and surprising insights into how Australia came to be.

Author : Alan Frost
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1921870575

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“Alan Frost is the myth-buster of Australian history...His work should be studied not only by students but anyone interested in the birth of a nation.” — the Age In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Robert Hughes condemned the organisers’ “muddle and lack of foresight”, while Manning Clark described scenes of “indescribable misery and confusion”. In The First Fleet: The Real Story, Alan Frost draws on previously forgotten records to debunk these persistent myths. He shows that the voyage was in fact meticulously planned – reflecting its importance to the British government’s secret ambitions for imperial expansion. He examines the ships and supplies, passengers and behind-the-scenes discussions. In the process, he reveals the hopes and schemes of those who planned the voyage, and the experiences of those who made it. ‘It is almost certain that Frost knows more than anybody else about the early maritime history of this land ... This book will surely alter the way Sydney sees its history.’ — Geoffrey Blainey, The Weekend Australian

Author : John Easty
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Australia
ISBN :

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Journal of a private marine describing voyage; First contact with natives (called Indians); Appearance and disposition of the huts and canoes of the natives; Attacks by Aborigines on convicts and search for them through swamps and bush.

Author : Alan Brooke
Publisher : National Archives UK
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : History
ISBN :

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This is the story of an extraordinary period in British criminal history, brought to life through unique surviving records held by the UK National Archives. For over two hundred years, tens of thousands of convicts were sentenced to be 'banished beyond the seas', mostly to Australia and to destinations which became the stuff of legend - Botany Bay, Van Diemen's Land, Norfolk Island. This book follows their epic voyages across the world's oceans, recapturing the perils and unexpected pleasures of life at sea in fresh and fascinating detail.

Author : Arthur Phillip
Publisher : General Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781458939203

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Preparation of the feet ordered to Botany Bay. Particulars of its arrangement.Departure and pajjage to the Canary Ijles. nr H E fquadron defined to carry into execution the above defign, began to aflemble at its appointed rendezvous, the Mother Bank, within the Ifle of Wight, about, the i6th of March, 1787. This fmall fleet confifced of the following fhips: His Majcfty's frigate Sirius, Captain John Hunter, and his Majefty's armed tender Supply, commanded by Lieutenant H. L. Ball. Three ftore-fhips, the Golden Grove, Fifiburn, and Borrowdale, for carrying provifions and ftores for two years; including inftruments of huf- bandry, clothing for the troops and convicts, and other neceflaries; and laftly, fix tranfports, the Scarborough, and Lady Penrbyn, from Portf- mouth; the Friendjlnp, and Charlotte, from Plymouth j mouth; the Prince of Wales, and the Alexander, from Woolwich. Thefe were to carry the convicts, with a detachment of Marines in each, proportioned to the nature of the fervice; the largeft where refiftance was moft to be expedited, namely, in thofe fhips which carried the greateft number of male convicts. Altogether they formed a little fquadron of eleven fail. They only who know the nature of fuch equipments, and confider the particular neceffity in the prefent inftance for a variety of articles not ufually provided, can judge properly of the time required for furnifhing out this fleet. Such perfons will doubtlefs be the leaft furprifed at being told that nearly two months had elapfcd before the fhips were enabled to quit this ftation, and proceed upon their voyage: and that even then fome few articles were either unprepared, or, through mif- apprehenfion, neglected. The former circum- ftance took place refpecting fome part of the clothing f...

Author : Gerald Hausman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780439403276

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This novel tells the true story of Mary Bryant, a spirited girl in 18th century England, who is sentenced to a prison ship bound for Australia but makes a harrowing escape. Caught stealing a lady's bonnet in Cornwall, England, in 1786, 19-year-old Mary Broad is sentenced to seven years' incarceration on a prison ship bound for Australia. Amid squalid, dangerous conditions below decks, Mary fights for her life and her dignity, and her spirited, outspoken ways rally her fellow prisoners. She also attracts the attention of Watkin Tench, a marine who helps her get food and clothing and whose child she eventually bears. But Tench will not marry her, and Mary is betrothed to Will Bryant, another convict whom she'd known as a child.