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As the name implies, it was a fleet of ships, not a ship.
When it was first formed it did not own a ship of the line and had no ship building capacity. Not even an armed merchant fleet was available, It was a Navy in name alone.
There was no ship in the First Fleet called the Louise.
There was no hidden ship of the First Fleet. All of the ships were known and visible.
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"Flogging around the fleet" was a punishment were an offender would be taken to each ship in a fleet and flogged on each in front fo the ship's crew.
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It was not a single ship, but a fleet consisting of eleven ships. It was called the First Fleet.
The smallest ship of the First Fleet was the H.M.S. Supply. It weighed 170 tons and was 70 feet long.
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