HMS Supply

Eight ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Supply. The third supply played an important role in the British colonization of Australia.

It was built in 1759 as an armed merchant ship and displaced 175 tons. For 27 years she transported Marine supplies between the Thames and the Channel ports.

As the oldest and smallest ship of the First Fleet left her with this on May 13th, 1787 Portsmouth, reaching on 18 January 1788 Botany Bay. Her captain was Henry Lidgbird ball, the ship's doctor James Callam. After the British had established a colony at Port Jackson, she served as a liaison to the colony ship in Norfolk Iceland and made 10 trips to there. After the loss of Sirius was the only connection of the colony with the outside world. On April 17, 1790 was sent to Batavia to procure supplies. On September 19, she returned to the chartered for additional transport capacity Dutch ship Waaksamheid. The supply left Port Jackson on November 26, 1791 and sailed via Cape Horn to Plymouth, where she arrived on 21 April 1792.

It was auctioned in July 1792 and renamed to the name of Thomas and Nancy and transported to 1806 in the Thames area coal.

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