The first boat built in the colony of NSW, the ROSEHILL PACKET, was launched in Sydney Cove. The boat builder was R. R. Read, the ship’s carpenter of HMS SIRIUS. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 February 1788
HMS SIRIUS landed a party on Garden Island, Sydney, to prepare a ship’s garden. Three sets of initials, ‘FM’, ‘IR’, and ‘WB’, were carved on a rock on the northern ...
Australian Naval History on 5 February 1788
Governor Arthur Phillip allocated Garden Island, Sydney, to HMS SIRIUS for use as a ship’s garden. ...
