Editing First Fleet (section)

=== After January 1788 ===
The ships of the First Fleet mostly did not remain in the colony. Some returned to England, while others left for other ports. Some remained at the service of the Governor of the colony for some months: some of these were sent to [[Norfolk Island]] where a second penal colony was established.

1788
* 15 February – HMAT ''Supply'' sails for Norfolk Island carrying a small party to establish a settlement.<ref name="Jordan2014">{{cite book|author=Robert Jordan|title=The Convict Theatres of Early Australia, 1788–1840|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M3v6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT438|date=1 July 2014|publisher=Currency House|isbn=978-0-9924890-1-4|pages=438–}}</ref><ref name="Kirk2012">{{cite book|author=Robert W. Kirk|title=Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520–1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klglH_7KkxsC&pg=PA71|date=18 October 2012|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-9298-5|pages=71–}}</ref>
* 5/6 May – ''Charlotte'', ''Lady Penrhyn'' and ''Scarborough'' set sail for China.<ref name="BladenBritton1893">{{cite book |author1=Bladen |first=Frank Murcott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHIhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA692 |title=Historical Records of New South Wales |author2=Alexander Britton |publisher=Lansdown Slattery & Company |year=1978 |isbn=0868330035 |location=Mona Vale |pages=692– |orig-year=1893}}</ref><ref name="(Surgeon.)1790">{{cite book|author=John WHITE (Surgeon.)|title=Begin. In the press, and speedily will be published ... A journal of a voyage to Botany Bay, in New South Wales, etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gTtfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA155|year=1790|pages=155–}}</ref>
* 14 July – ''Borrowdale'', ''Alexander'', ''Friendship'' and ''Prince of Wales'' set sail to return to England.<ref name="Heaton1879">{{cite book|author=John Henniker Heaton|title=Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History of Australasia from 1542 to May, 1879|url=https://archive.org/details/australiandicti00heatgoog|year=1879|publisher=G. Robertson|pages=[https://archive.org/details/australiandicti00heatgoog/page/n441 1]–}}</ref><ref name="Marshall2010">{{cite book|author=John Marshall|title=Royal Naval Biography: Or, Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired-Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jps1Iq_-GUUC&pg=PA484|date=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-02266-8|pages=484–}}</ref>
* 2 October – ''Golden Grove'' sets sail for Norfolk Island with a party of convicts,<ref name="Bladen1892">{{cite book|author=Frank Murcot Bladen|title=Historical Records of New South Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZiQXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA194|year=1892|publisher=C. Potter|pages=194–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Records of New South Wales: part 1. &#91;Papers relating to&#93; Cook, 1762–1780. Facsimiles of charts. 1893. Part 2. &#91;Papers relating to&#93; Phillip, 1783–1792. 1892|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ML4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209|year=1892|publisher=C. Potter|pages=209–}}</ref> returning to Port Jackson 10 November, while HMS ''Sirius'' sails for [[Cape of Good Hope]] for supplies.<ref name="MeloVaz2016">{{cite book|author1=Cristina Joanaz de Melo|author2=Estelita Vaz|author3=Lígia M. Costa Pinto|title=Environmental History in the Making: Volume II: Acting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fehODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA312|date=2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-41139-2|pages=312–}}</ref><ref name="Horsburgh1827">{{cite book|author=James Horsburgh|title=India Directory, Or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the Interjacent Ports. 3. Ed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNJYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA572|year=1827|publisher=Kingsburg|pages=572–}}</ref>
* 19 November – ''Fishburn'' and ''Golden Grove'' set sail for England. This means that only HMAT ''Supply'' now remains in Sydney cove.<ref name="Barton1889">{{cite book|author=George Burnett Barton|title=History of New South Wales from the Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CXDOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA318|year=1889|publisher=Charles Potter|pages=318–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Edinburgh Magazine, Or Literary Miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nV43AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA292-IA3|year=1789|publisher=J. Sibbald|pages=292–}}</ref>

1789
* 23 December – {{HMS|Guardian|1784|6}} carrying stores for the colony strikes an iceberg and is forced back to the Cape. It never reaches the colony in New South Wales.<ref name="Rusden1897">{{cite book|author=George William Rusden|title=History of Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MnrOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59|year=1897|publisher=Melville, Mullen & Slade|pages=59–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Nautical Magazine: A Technical and Critical Journal for the Officers of the Mercantile Marine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJ8epwiWIIQC&pg=PA189|year=1845|publisher=James Brown & Son|pages=189–}}</ref>

1790:
* 19 March – HMS ''Sirius'' is wrecked off Norfolk Island.<ref name="Henderson2016">{{cite book|author=Graeme Henderson|author-link=Graeme Henderson|title=Swallowed by the Sea: The Story of Australia's Shipwrecks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_PoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA216|date=2016|publisher=National Library of Australia|isbn=978-0-642-27894-4|pages=216–}}</ref><ref name="ScottPodany1994">{{cite book|author1=David A. Scott|author2=Jerry Podany|author3=Brian B. Considine|title=Ancient & Historic Metals: Conservation and Scientific Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O7pOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA267|year=1994|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-0-89236-231-8|pages=267–}}</ref><ref name="David1995">{{cite book|author=Andrew David|title=The Voyage of HMS Herald to Australia and the South-west Pacific, 1852–1861 Under the Command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CxUxAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Miegunyah Press|isbn=978-0-522-84390-3}}</ref>
* 17 April – HMAT ''Supply'' sent to [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies]], for emergency food supplies.<ref>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=ball-henry-lidgbird-1734/text1911 | author=Parsons, Vivienne | title=Ball, Henry Lidgbird (1756–1818) | year=1966}}</ref>
* 3 June – ''[[Lady Juliana (1777 ship)|Lady Juliana]]'', the first of six vessels of the [[Second Fleet (Australia)|Second Fleet]], arrives in Sydney cove. The remaining five vessels of the Second Fleet arrive in the ensuing weeks.<ref name="Barton1894">{{cite book|author=George Burnett Barton|title=History of New South Wales from the Records: Phillip and Grose, 1789–1794|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCEQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56|year=1894|publisher=Charles Potter|pages=54–}}</ref>
* 19 September – HMAT ''Supply'' returns to Sydney having chartered the Dutch vessel ''[[Waaksamheyd (ship)|Waaksamheyd]]'' to accompany it carrying stores.<ref name="fff">{{cite web |date=15 October 2011 |title=HMAT Supply |url=https://firstfleetfellowship.org.au/ships/hmat-supply/ |access-date=9 May 2024 |publisher=First Fleet Fellowship Victoria Inc}}</ref>