By Dr J.K. Haken Picture One Above: HMS Wolverene sailing from Port Jackson as Flagship of the Australia Station. John Bastock. A native of England, Walton Drake was born ...
HMS SIRIUS
Occasional Paper 158: John Palmer: The Colony’s First Principal Commissary
By Cheryl Timbury. This paper was first published on 6 February 2012 by the First Fleet Fellowship Victoria Inc ©. John Palmer (1760 – 1833) the first Commissary-General of New ...
Our First Gardeners
By Norman Rivett Who were they? The first garden from which Garden Island derives its name commenced here on Monday the 7th of February 1788 when a party from HMS ...
Dangers to Navigation
By Lieutenant Commander Tony Maskell, RAN (Rtd) OVER THE YEARS since the arrival of the First Fleet there have been a number of notable shipwrecks. Examples can be found from ...
