Editing First Fleet (section)

===Food and supply transports===
Ropes, [[crockery]], agricultural equipment and a miscellany of other stores were needed. Items transported included tools, agricultural implements, seeds, spirits, medical supplies, bandages, surgical instruments, handcuffs, [[Legcuffs|leg iron]]s and a prefabricated wooden frame for the colony's first Government House.<ref>Correspondence, Daniel Southwell, Midshipman HMS ''Sirius'', 5 May 1788. Cited in Bladen (ed.) 1978, p. 683</ref> The party had to rely on its own provisions to survive until it could make use of local materials, assuming suitable supplies existed, and grow its own food and raise livestock.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Food and supply transports (depart England 13 May 1787)
! scope="col" | Ship
! scope="col" | Type
! scope="col" | Master
! scope="col" | Crew
! scope="col" | Arr. Botany Bay
! scope="col" | Duration (days)
|-
! scope="row" | {{ship||Golden Grove|1782 ship|2}}
| storeship
| William Sharp
| 22
| 20 January 1788
| align=right | 252
|-
! scope="row" | {{ship||Fishburn|1780 ship|2}}
| storeship
| Robert Brown
| 22
| 20 January 1788
| align=right | 252
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Borrowdale (1785 ship)|Borrowdale]]''
| storeship
| Hobson Reed
| 22
| 20 January 1788
| align=right | 252
|}

====''Golden Grove''====
The reverend [[Richard Johnson (chaplain)|Richard Johnson]], chaplain for the colony, travelled on the ''Golden Grove'' with his wife and servants.