The first stop for the First Fleet was Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
The First Fleet convicts were taken to New South Wales. Specifically, the First Fleet was headed for Botany Bay, although ultimately it ended up in Port Jackson.
The First Fleet was a group of eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain headed to Australia. There were a reported 48 people who lost their lives on this journey as well as 28 births.
The First Fleet was known as the First Fleet when it came to Australia.
The First Fleet.
No. There was no mutiny on the first fleet.
According to the website First Fleet Fellowship, there were 44 sheep on board the First Fleet.
There was no Queen of the First Fleet. The First Fleet carried convicts and marines to New South Wales.
The First Fleet was not something that was built. The First Fleet was the fleet in which the first permanent settlers travelled to Australia, and it was made up of convicts, marines and officers from England.
The first fleet of ships that landed in Australia was simply called the First Fleet.
The flagship of the first fleet was HMS Sirius.
The first fleet was never alive. It was a fleet of ships. The last known person who was aboard the First Fleet died during the 1860s.
On 26 January 1788, just six days after the First Fleet had departed from Botany Bay and headed north to Port Jackson, French explorer Le Compte de Laperouse arrived at Botany Bay.