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From: "John D. Stevenson" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] Re: Master-Commander
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:56:49 -0000
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Good morning
Arthur Philip was commander of SIRIUS part of the "First Fleet" which
arrived Botany Bay in January 1788
He later became the first Governor of New South Wales and founder of the
city of Sydney
He retired in May 1796 , set up home in Bath with his second wife and died
there in 1814 age 76.

Regards
John

John D. Stevenson
Bright sunshine, SSW F1/2, 11C
Edinburgh.




> I've always understood that Admiral Arthur Philip was the First
> Governor of Australia, so I assume that it was he who was aboard
> BUFFALO in 1836. Philip had been a pupil at Greenwich Royal Hospital
> School.
>
> Bernard de Neumann
> Royal Hospital School Archivist
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Harry Dodsworth [mailto:]
>> Sent: 06 November 2005 01:42
>> To:
>> Subject: [Mar] Re: Master-Commander
>>
>> Paul Benyon <> used the HMS Buffalo as an
>> example
>> of a ship with a combined Master-Commander.
>> Although the Buffalo was an insignificant vessel, mainly used for
>> stores and importing timber for the Navy, she was involved in
>> interesting events. She carried the first Governor to South
>> Australia (1836). After years as a store ship she was converted
>> into a convict carrier in the 1830s.
>> On her final voyage (1839) she carried 143 Canadian and American
>> convicts.
>> These were political prisoners who had participated in the 1837
>> revolt and invasion of Canada in an attempt to get representative
>> government. The English Canadians and Americans were transported to
>> Tasmania.
>> The French Canadians were destined to the punishment colony of
>> Norfolk Island. However at Sydney, the Roman Catholic Bishop of
>> Sydney recognized that these were harmless people and was able to
>> get the Governor to let them stay in the Sydney area, under normal
>> convict conditions. The Buffalo was wrecked in New Zealand on her
>> homeward voyage (1840).
>>
>> One book on these prisoners is Forgotten Patriots, Jack Cahill,
>> Toronto, 1998.
>> I also found a reference to a book HMS Buffalo, Robert Sexton, 1984
>> (which I havn't read).
>> HMS Buffalo by R SEXTON, (Australasian Maritime Historical
>> Society,1984) 'An account of His Majesty's Ship Buffalo; Naval
>> Storeship and Timber Carrier,
>> Quarantine Ship, Transport, and Emigrant Ship bringing the first
>> Governor to South Australia', lots of b/w illustrations and maps,
>> 183pp
>>
>>
>> --
>> Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada
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