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Page 28
... ships also carried two companies of a newly formed military organisation , the New South Wales Corps , which was to replace the detachment of Marines . The masters of the ships had been responsible for their victualling , which had been ...
... ships also carried two companies of a newly formed military organisation , the New South Wales Corps , which was to replace the detachment of Marines . The masters of the ships had been responsible for their victualling , which had been ...
Page 41
... ships had left England for Sydney in two divisions ; one sailed from Plymouth and the other from Portsmouth , although one of the ships , the Queen , embarked convicts at Cork , being the first to convey Irish prisoners to Australia ...
... ships had left England for Sydney in two divisions ; one sailed from Plymouth and the other from Portsmouth , although one of the ships , the Queen , embarked convicts at Cork , being the first to convey Irish prisoners to Australia ...
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... ship's Surgeon , from whom an investment of a thousand pounds value was wholly taken , together with most of his wearing apparel , surgical instruments , and the ships medicine chest , which latter loss , but for the favour of ...
... ship's Surgeon , from whom an investment of a thousand pounds value was wholly taken , together with most of his wearing apparel , surgical instruments , and the ships medicine chest , which latter loss , but for the favour of ...
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