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" .
Charlotte (1784 ship) Charlotte was an English merchant ship built in the River Thames in 1784 and chartered in 1786 to carry convicts as part of the First Fleet to New South Wales. She returned to Britain from Botany Bay via China, where she picked up a cargo for the British East India Company. "Charlotte" then spent most of the rest of her career in the London-Jamaica trade. She may have been lost off Newfoundland in 1818; in any case, she disappears from the lists by 1821.