1798
Nautilus 14 May OtaheiteMissionaries
Barwell, transport 18 England Convicts
Hunter 10 Jun.  Bengal Speculation
Cornwall, whaler 2 Jul.  CofGHopeTo refit
Eliza 4
Argo, American sch. 7 MauritiusSpeculation
Sally, whaler 8 Jul.  CofGHopeTo refit
Britannia, transp. 18 England Convicts
Pomona, whaler 20 Aug.  CofGHopeTo refit
Diana 20
Semiramis, American 1 Oct.  Rhode Is. 
Marquis Cornwallis 27 CofGHopeCattle
store-ship
Indispensable,whaler 27 — To refit
                     1799
Rebecca, American 5 Mar. — Speculation
Nostra Senora de 24 Apr.  Cape Blanco Various
Bethlehem, prize articles
          
                                           1799
H.M.S.  Buffalo 26 CofGHopeCattle 15th Sep.  C of G Hope
Albion, store-ship 29 Jun.  England Provisions
Hillsborough, trans. 26 Jul.  Convicts
Resource, American 6 Sep.  RhodeIs.To refit
Walker, store-ship 3 Nov.  England Provisions
El Plumier, prize 2 Dec.  Cape Various
                              Corientes articles
                     1800
Swallow, packet 3 Jan.  England To refit
Minerva, transport 11 Ireland Convicts
Fhynne, Danish 11 Feb.  Bengal Speculation
colours
Betsey, whaler 13 W. CoastTo refit
                              America
Friendship, transp. 16 Ireland Convicts
Speedy, transport 15 Apr.  England —
H.M.S.  Buffalo 15 CofGHopeCattle
Belle Sauvage 7 Jun.  RhodeIs.To refit
American

[* These departures are noticed, to show in what time the principal passages have been made to and from the different ports with which the colony had intercourse, by comparing the time of sailing with the return.]

Of these ships 37 sailed from England with convicts, male and female, for the settlement, having about 5000 persons of that description on board, of which something more (157) than one fifth were females.

The following ships had sailed from England and Ireland for New South Wales; but none of them had arrived previous to the departure of the Buffalo, viz

24th August 1799 Luz.  St. Ann, transport, with 167 Convicts. 17th March 1800 H.M.S. the Porpoise. 
She arrived the 7th Nov. following.
23d May 1800 Royal Admiral, transport, 300 convicts. 18th November Earl Cornwallis, — 327 21st June 1801 Nile, — 96
- Canada, — 103
28th November Minorca, — 101
12th February 1802 Hercules, — ) 330
- Atlas, — )
Coromandel, — ) 250
Perseus, )
Rollo, — ) 250
Atlas, — )