The First Fleet

By zmiller11
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    The First Fleet

  • Departure

    Departure
    Elevan ships left Great Britain to colinise Australia.
    Supply, Charlotte,

    Scarborough, Friendship, Prince of Wales, Lady Penrhyn, Borrowdale,
    Alexander, Sirius , Fishburn Golden Grove

  • Ships

    Ships
    The ships that carried the convicts were Alexander, Charlotte, Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough and Prince of Wales.Captain Arthur Fillip sailed on a war ship called The Sirius which was the flag ship that led the boats.

  • Tenerife

    -They stopped at Tenerife for extra food but all they had was mulberries, pumpkins, figs and plenty of onions.
    -The convicts went out and exercised to keep healthy for coliny.
    -When they left Captain Fillip went to their cells to chat what crime they did and how long they got sentenced for.

  • Rio 2nd Stop

    Rio 2nd Stop
    • The Marines, Surgeons and Captain Fillip spent there time in the city.
    • The convicts spent there time in the ship anchored in the harbour.
    • The marines Surgeon and Marines got to the city by rowing a row boat to the city.
    • Convicts heard the music the city played and saw a little bit of the lushes environment.
    • Convicts exercised on the ships to keep healthy for the new colony.
    • When they left they heard the twenty-one gun salotte whitch is a way of saying hello or goodbye.

  • Cape-Town 3rd Stop

    • It was rough sailing for everyone on the ships. -When they arrived they went off and spent one month in cape-Town.
    • They captured the butterflies, plants and flirted with the local ladies.
    • They got enough whitch was bread, grain, seeds, meat, animals and water.
    • Convicts stayed on board and got sea sick from all the waves on there way to Cape-Town.
    • When they left they set off a thirteen gun salote to say goodbye.

  • 4th Stop Botany Bay

    4th Stop Botany Bay
    • When they arived Captain Fillip din't like the conditions.
    • Captain Fillip decided to move because the water wasn't fresh, the soil wasn't moist to plant crops and shocked by the environment.
    • They left afetr one day to find different land.

  • New Colony

    • Life was Hard for everyone at the colony but moslty it was hardest for the convicts.
    • Well behaved convicts had their irons removed for paying attention, not getting flogged and doing their new work.
    • If they were naughty they would get flogged if they run away they would gget flogged.
    • When they get in the wild thheres dangerous creatures and they would go back to colony and get a flogging for running away.

  • The Eora People

    The Eora People
    • Captain Phillip was given stricked instructions to live in peace with the Eora.
    • The Eora and the English were curious with each other.
    • The Eora kept steelling animals because the English are in there territory. -The Eora were shocked the way they wiped the land and suprised of the harsh punishments the convicts got.
    • the English felt superior to the Eora.