No. Captain James Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. The First Fleet did not sail until May 1787.
Captain Arthur Phillip
The First Fleet was commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip.
The Captain of the First Fleet was Arthur Phillip.
A ship is not "driven" it is sailed and the captain of the Mayflower would have sailed her.
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Captain Arthur Phillip
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Captain Arthur Phillip commanded the First Fleet. He was a naval officer who, in October 1786, was appointed Governor-designate of the proposed British penal colony of New South Wales.
Because in January 1798 George Bass discovered it. He then returned with Matthew Flinders and name it Snapper Island. Captain James Grant then named it Grant Island. The island was eventually renamed after Sir Arthur Phillip, Governor of the First Fleet which sailed from England to Australia in 1788. He named it Phillip Island.
The first governor of Australia was Captain Arthur Phillip.
Captain Arthur Phillip did not send the First Fleet: he commanded it. Captain Arthur Phillip was offered the commissionto be captain of the First Fleet. He had been in semi-retirement for several years, occupied as a farmer, but he was keen to be of service in the navy once again. Phillip offered his services and informed the authorities he was prepared to be of service "anywhere in the Empire" - and they took him up on his offer, sending him as Captain of the First Fleet to New South Wales, literally the other side of the world.
Captain Phillip referred to Australia by the name accorded the eastern half by James Cook - and that was New South Wales.