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} | Ship length= * (overall) * (keel) | Ship beam= | Ship draught= | Ship draft= | Ship hold depth= | Ship propulsion=Sail | Ship sail plan=Ship rig | Ship complement= | Ship armament=4 × 4-pounder + 10 × 6-pounder guns〔''Lloyd's Register'' (1801)〕 | Ship notes= }} |} ''Scarborough'' was a square-sterned barque that participated in the First Fleet, assigned to carry convicts for the European colonisation of Australia in 1788. Also, the British East India company (EIC) chartered ''Scarborough'' to take a cargo of tea back to Britain after her two voyages transporting convicts. She spent much of her career as a West Indiaman, trading between London and the West Indies, but did perform a third voyage in 1801-02 to Bengal for the EIC. She foundered in 1805. == Early career == ''Scarborough'' spent her first four years transporting timber from the Baltic and North America.〔 In 1787 south London shipbroker William Richards chartered ''Scarborough'' for the First Fleet voyage. He selected her after first consulting with Royal Marine officers Watkin Tench and David Collins.〔Keneally 2005, p. 49.〕 Both marine officers would sail with the Fleet to Australia, Tench as a captain of marines and Collins as judge-advocate for the new colony. She was the second-largest transport selected for the Fleet after ''Alexander''〔 After selection, ''Scarborough'' sailed to Deptford dockyard to be refitted for convict transportation under the supervision of Naval Agent George Teer.〔Frost 1984, p.112〕 The height between decks was increased to amidships and between and fore and aft, and two (windsails ) were brought aboard to improve the flow of air in the convict quarters.〔Gillen 1989, p.430〕〔Bateson 1969, p13〕 Bulkheads were also fitted to separate convict quarters from those of the marines and crew, and space set aside for stores and a sick bay. An Osbridge machine was also installed to filter ''Scarborough''s drinking water during the voyage to New South Wales.〔 Teer was entirely satisfied with ''Scarborough''s fitout; in December 1786 he advised the Navy Board that she and her fellow First Fleet transports were "completed fitted () provisions and accommodations .. better than any other set of transports I have ever had any directions in." ''Scarborough''s crew as a convict transport was approximately 35 men including her master, three mates, a boatswain and a ship's surgeon.〔Gillen 1989, p.430〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scarborough (1782 ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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