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The First Fleet was the fleet of sailing ships that brought the original settlers and convicts to Australia from England. Captain Arthur Phillip led the fleet out of Portsmouth, England on May 13, 1787 with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia. The fleet landed in Sydney Cove in what would later become Sydney, Australia on January 26, 1788 (now known as Australia Day). On January 28 they established the first European settlement on the continent at Botany Bay. The settlement soon moved north to Sydney Cove (now Sydney) in Port Jackson due to a lack of fresh water at Botany Bay The first fleet consisted of the following ships; H.M.S. Supply; H.M.S. Sirius; The Alexander; The Borrowdale; The Charlotte; The Fishburn; The Friendship; The Golden Grove; The Lady Penrhyn; The Prince Of Wales and The Scarborough