Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

Cape Town, Table Mountain &c; Sirius & convoy in Table Bay, November, 1787. William Bradley, watercolour from his journal ‘A Voyage to New South Wales’, 1802+. State Library of New South Wales: safe 1/14.

At the Cape of Good Hope Governor Phillip purchased more plants that he hoped would thrive in the new settlement, including fig, quince, apple and pear trees, bamboo, sugar cane, grape vines and strawberry plants. Various livestock as described in 1788 by Surgeon George Worgan was also purchased and loaded on board HMS

Sirius

and the three storeships (the female convicts on

Friendship

were transferred to other ships to make way for the sheep):

As that was the last civilized Country We should touch at, in our Passage to Botany Bay We provided ourselves with every Article, necessary for the forming a civilized Colony, Live Stock, consisting of Bulls, Cows, Horses Mares, Colts, Sheep, Hogs, Goats Fowls and other living Creatures by Pairs. …Thus Equipped, each Ship like another Noah’s Ark, away we steered for Botany Bay.

The voyage

• 13 May 1787
• 20 May 1787
• 3 June to 10 June 1787
• 21 June 1787
• 14 July 1787
• 6 August to 4 September 1787
• 14 October to 12 November 1787
• 25 November 1787
• 18 to 20 January 1788

Portsmouth, England Release from fetters Santa Cruz, Tenerife Missing Port Praya Crossing the equator Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa Phillip sails ahead Botany Bay, Australia

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