Friendship (1784 ship)

The Friendship was a transport ship of the First Fleet. It was built in 1784 in Scarborough. She was a brig of 278 tons and the smallest transport ship in the fleet. Her captain was Francis Walton, the ship's surgeon Thomas Arndell.

The ship left Portsmouth on 13 May 1787. It transported 76 male and 21 female convicts. The latter were at the Cape of Good Hope spread to other ships to make room for the here taken on board cattle.

The Friendship reached on January 26, 1788 Port Jackson in Australia.

On July 14, 1788, she ran with the Alexander again. The crews of both ships, however, were so badly affected off the coast of Borneo by scurvy that only enough able-bodied men were left for a ship. The team was therefore transferred to the Alexander and sunk the Friendship. A replica of the ship was built in the 1990s and is located in Salem, Massachusetts.