Golden Grove
Length: 31.4 metres (103 feet); width: 8.8 metres (29 feet); weight: 336 tonnes (331 tons)
Golden Grove - Storeship
Golden Grove carried the colony’s first chaplain, Reverend Richard Johnson, his wife, Mary, their servant, Samuel Barnes and their two cats, Mr Tom Puss and Miss Puss. Johnson began his ministerial work on board Golden Grove; with permission obtained from the ship’s master, he regularly preached to the ship’s crew on Sundays. Johnson wrote numerous letters to friends in England, in one letter he described the turbulent weather he and his wife experienced on New Year’s Day 1788:
On the 1st of Jany, we met with a severe gale which lasted for about 24 hours … The different elements seemed to be in the greatest tumult, threatening our dissolution every moment. But through mercy we suffered little … and I do assure you we ate our roast Pig and Plumb pudding with great relish, though with no less difficulty, our plates, &c., tumbling down, and we scarcely able to keep upon our seats.
Alexander
Length: 34.75 metres (114 feet); width: 9.5 metres (31 feet); weight: 460 tonnes (452 tons)
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Length: 22.7 metres (75 feet); width 6.7 metres (22 feet); weight: 276 tonnes (272 tons)
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Ship size length: 32 metres (105 feet); width: 8.5 metres (28 feet); weight: 343 tonnes (338 tons)
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