:n "E w sou t h wales. 
G H A P T E R 
Vreparation of the fleet ordered to Botany Bay. — Particidars of 
its arrangement. — I^cpartiire and paffage to the Canary Ifles, 
H E fquadron deftined to carry into execution the c h a p. 
above defigii, began to affemble at its appointed * — — ' 
rendezvous, the Mother Bank? v^ithin the lile of Wight, 
about the .i6th of March, 1787. This fmall fleet con- March 16th, 
1787, 
fifted of the following fliips : Kis Majeily's frigate Sirius, 
Captain John Hunter, and his Majefty's armed tender 
Supply, commanded by Lieutenant H. L. Ball. Three - . 
ftore-fliips^ the Golden Grove, Fifljburn, and .Borrow- 
dale, for carrying provifions and ftores for two years ; • 
including inftruments of hufbandry, clothing for the 
troops and convidts, and other necelTaries ; and laftly, ■ ' 
fix tranfports, the Scarborough, and Lady Penrhyn, from 
Portfmouth ; the Friej^dfJjip, and Charlotte, from Ply- 
mouth ; \hQ Prmce of Wales, and Alexander, from ■ 
Woolwich. Thefe were to carry the convicSts, with a 
detachment of Marines in each, proportioned to the na- 
ture of the fervice ; the larp-eft where relifiance was moft 
to be expelled, namely, in thofe fliips which carried the 
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