Lieutenant John Bowen is in command of…
September 1803 CE
Lieutenant John Bowen is in command of the whaler Albion.
Accompanying him are twenty-one male and three female convicts, guarded by a company of marines of the New South Wales Corps, as well as a small number of free settlers.
The supply ship, the Lady Nelson, arrives on September 8, 1803, and HMS Albion arrives on September 13, 1803, thereby creating a presence in Van Diemen's Land for the British.