The ship Robert Watson was quartermaster on was one of how many ships in the flotilla that founded England's Australian penal colony?
Robert Watson (harbourmaster) Robert Watson (1756–1819) was a British sailor who arrived in Australia with the First Fleet as quartermaster of "Sirius" .
HMS Pilchard (1805) HMS "Pilchard" was a Royal Navy "Ballahoo"-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda. She was commissioned under Lieutenant Samuel Crew in May 1804, launched in 1805, and completed at Plymouth in 1806. Although "Pilchard" was often near naval engagements, she seems not to have had to fire her cannons before she was laid up in 1812. Entries in "Lloyd's Register" indicate that she continued in mercantile trade from at least 1817 until 1833, under a variety of owners and masters, and as far afield as Africa and Valparaiso.