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The First Fleet

ARTICLES SENT BY FIRST FLEET TO PORT JACKSON IN 1788

List taken from the account-books of the Admiralty

Source: Historical Records of New South Wales, Volume 2.

 

700 steel spades

700 iron shovels

700 garden-hoes

700 West India hoes

700 grubbing-hoes

700 felling-axes

700 hatchets

700 helves for felling-axes

747,000 nails

100 pairs of hinges and hooks

10 sets cooper’s tools

40 corn-mills

40 wheel-barrows

12 ploughs

30 grindstones

330 iron pots

6 carts

4 timber-carriages

14 chains to timber-carriages

14 fishing nets

5,448 squares of crown glass

200 canvas beds

63 chald’n coals

80 carpenter’s axes

20 shipwright’s adzes

175 claw-hammers

175 steel had-saws

140 augers

700 gimlets

Stationery for Commissary

Drugs, etc

504 saw files

300 chisels

6 butcher’s knives

100 scissors

30 box-rules

30 pincers

100 plains measures

50 pickaxes

50 helves for pickaxes

700 wooden bowls

700 wooden platters

5 sets blacksmith’s tools

10 blacksmith’s bellows

10 forges

20 pit-saws

700 clasp-knives

500 tin plates

60 padlocks

50 hay-forks

42 splitting-wedges

8,000 fish-hooks

48 dozen lines

9 dozen pounds sewing-twine

10,000 bricks

12 brick-moulds

36 mason’s chisels

Harness for six horses

12 ox-bows

3 sets ox-furniture

6 harpoons

Clothes

3 dozen flat iron candlesticks

3 snuffers

24 spinning whorls

48 spinning brasses

Set of apparatus for candle-making

7 dozen razors

Bible, prayer-book, Communion service, and surplice for Chaplain

6 bullet-moulds

9 hackles for flax

9 hackle-pins

3 flax-dresser brushes

127 dozen combs

1 machine for dressing flax, with ironwork and brushes

18 coils whale-line

252 dozen pounds cotton candles

168 dozen pounds mould candles

44 tons of tallow

2 millstones, spindles, etc.

800 sets bedding

1 loom for weaving canvas

2,780 woollen jackets

5,400 drawers

26 marquees for married officers

200 wood canteens

40 camp-kettles, etc

 

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