Sentence examples for the first fleet from inspiring English sources

This would be the first fleet of hybrid diesel multiple units.

Hansell's work in getting air bases for the first fleet of B-29s established on Saipan.

The First Fleet, commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip, left Portsmouth in May 1787.

"The arrival of the first fleet was the defining moment in the history of this continent.

While in Phillip's company Bennelong had also befriended the first fleet officer Henry Waterhouse.

Cats were introduced to Australia with the first fleet, where they had been kept as ratters on convict ships.

The first recorded killing happened on 1 September 1794, six years after the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove and declared Australia a British colony.

Johnston had the honour of being the first officer ashore from the First Fleet, having been carried from the landing boat on the back of convict James Ruse.

Seven ships of Great Britain's Royal Navy have been called since the 18th century, with the first being the flagship of the First Fleet to Australia in 1788.

She was the second-smallest of the First Fleet transports after Friendship and the last to be contracted to join the voyage.

Horses first arrived in Australia in 1788 with the First Fleet.