''Fishburn'' was built at

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in 1780. the largest of the three

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storeships. According to her 1786 Deptford survey, she was between decks afore, midships and abaft.

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''Fishburn'' appeared in the 1781 volume of ''

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'' with Gill, master, J.Pierton, owner, and trade Cork-based transport.''Lloyd's Register'' (1781), Seq. №79.
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'' reported on 15 March 1785 that ''Fishburn'' had been driven on the Jarron Slake, but that it was hoped she would be gotten off with little damage. In 1777 she became a storeship with the First Fleet to Botany Bay. Her master for the voyage to Botany Bay was

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, and she was owned by Leighton Co., who were also the owners of and . ''Fishburn'' carried 22 crew, though five deserted before the vessel departed England. The shortfall was made up through forced transfers from , the Royal Navy escort ship that accompanied the Fleet for the first three hundred miles of its voyage. ''Fishburn'' left

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on 13 May 1787, and arrived at

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on 26 January 1788. She left Port Jackson on 19 November 1788, keeping company with ''Golden Grove'' until losing sight of her on 11 April 1789 after several days at the

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for recovery of crew members who were sick with

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. She arrived back in England on 25 May 1789. The fate of ''Fishburn'' is unknown; she appears to have disappeared from the records after being discharged from Her Majesty's service at Deptford, nine days after her arrival. View of Botany Bay

There is a monument to ''Fishburn'' in the First Fleet Memorial Gardens at Wallabadah, New South Wales. An Urban Transit Authority First Fleet ferry was named after ''Fishburn'' in 1985.Sydney Ferries Fleet Facts
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