High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Gorgon was a 44-gun Fifth rate two-decker ship of the Adventure Class of 911 tons, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1785 and completed as a troopship. She was subsequently converted to a storeship. Under Commander John Parker, she went to New South Wales on 15 March 1791, along with the Third Fleet, arriving on 21 September 1791. She carried six months provisions for 900 people in the starving colony and Watkin Tench said “we hailed it with rapture and exhilaration”. She also carried about 30 convicts, and Philip Gidley King who was returning to the colony to take up the post of lieutenant-governor of Norfolk Island.

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