The year is 1776.
It is a time of change in London. The prisons are overflowing, prison brigs sitting in the river Thames are packed with criminals. Desperate for a solution, the government decides on a radical new plan. To send its prisoners to the far side of the world, a place uninhabited and isolated from all European contact.
Here they will establish a colony and hopefully survive. A one way trip to the far corner of the world, there will be no coming back to the lives these people knew before. A journey of this kind and magnitude has never been attempted before.
This is the First Fleet.
It is a time of change in London. The prisons are overflowing, prison brigs sitting in the river Thames are packed with criminals. Desperate for a solution, the government decides on a radical new plan. To send its prisoners to the far side of the world, a place uninhabited and isolated from all European contact.
Here they will establish a colony and hopefully survive. A one way trip to the far corner of the world, there will be no coming back to the lives these people knew before. A journey of this kind and magnitude has never been attempted before.
This is the First Fleet.