Third Fleet (Australia)

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The Third Fleet was a fleet of 11 ships which set sail from Great Britain in 1791 bound for the Sydney penal settlement, with over 2000 convicts.

The ships in the fleet were: Atlantic, William and Ann, Britannia, Matilda, Salamander, Albemarle, Mary Anne, Admiral Barrington, Active, Gorgon, and the Queen with Irish convicts.

A newspaper report from 1791 stated that 194 male convicts and four female convicts died during this voyage, but their names are not noted. Though this death rate is very high, it was not as bad as that which had occured with the Second Fleet.

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• List of Convicts who travelled on the Third Fleet (This list was compiled in London, so there is no way of knowing which of these people actually arrived in Sydney)