Friendship

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about the fiendship

The Friendship was a brig and was the smallest boat in the First Fleet which carried 76 male convicts and 21 female. The female were put onto other boats at the Cape of Good Hope. The captain of the ship was Sir Francis Walter and the Surgreon was Thomas Arndell. The females were moved to other boats because they wanted to make room for livestock.

By Patrick Crehan

Problems The ship was deliberately sunk on the 28th of October in the Straits Of Makassar. Diseases were very comon and spreading through the boats. some of them were scurvy,cholera,dysentery and typhoid.

By Patrick Crehan

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The Arrival of the friendship The arrival in botany bay was the 19th of jaunry 1787. the duration was 251 days and also they were 21 death. This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander. by Brandon Smithson

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