Category:The Ships - Revision history

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 This section is concerned with the ships which carried convicts and stores to New South Wales in the years 1787 to 1800. Where reliable information is available, it provides a chronology of each ship from its construction until the end of its life, with a particular focus on its use in the Botany Bay trade.
-But it also documents how these ships were managed - navigation and sailing, insurance and wages, crew mortality, crew wills, privateering and armaments, war and weather.
+But it also provides some analysis of the kinds of ships employed in carrying convicts and stores to NSW - tonnage, dimensions, mast numbers, deck numbers, crew numbers, armaments, owners, agents, masters, surgeons - as well as sailing dates and sailing times.
 - Gary L. Sturgess, 21 February 2016

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	+	Ships were one of the very few objects to retain the gendered pronoun in the English language - until very recently, a ship was referred to as 'she'. The qualities of these vessels – the ''Sirius'' with her ‘broad Buttocks’, the ''Admiral Barrington'', ‘a very old ship and infamously found’, the ''Sugar Cane'', ‘a remarkable fast sailer’ – made a significant difference to the outcome of the voyage.

	+	This section is concerned with the ships which carried convicts and stores to New South Wales in the years 1787 to 1800. Where reliable information is available, it provides a chronology of each ship from its construction until the end of its life, with a particular focus on its use in the Botany Bay trade.
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	+	But it also documents how these ships were managed - navigation and sailing, insurance and wages, crew mortality, crew wills, privateering and armaments, war and weather.
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	+	- Gary L. Sturgess, 21 February 2016