Third Fleet (Australia)

The Third Fleet was a fleet of 11 ships that ran in 1791 with 2,000 convicts, supplies and passengers from Britain to the penal colony of Sydney.

It included the ships:

  • Atlantic
  • William and Ann
  • Britannia
  • Matilda
  • Salamander
  • Albemarle
  • Mary Anne
  • Admiral Barrington
  • HMS Active, frigate 5th class of 1780
  • Gorgon (former frigate, supply ship )
  • HMS Queen

A newspaper of 1791 reports that 194 male and 4 female convicts died during the voyage. Although this death rate was very high, it was lower than that of the Second Fleet.

HMS Gorgon (1785) First Fleet Second Fleet (Australia)
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