John Watts (Royal Navy officer)

John Watts
John Watts
	John Watts in 1779

John Watts (1755–1801) was a Royal Navy officer.^[1] He served as a midshipman in Resolution on James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific in 1776–1780. In 1787–1789, while on leave from the navy, he sailed as a passenger on Lady Penrhyn with the First Fleet to New South Wales, and acted as supercargo on the return voyage to England via Canton.

Extracts from Watts's journal of the First Fleet voyage appear in The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, as do three plates after his sketches.^[2]

Notes[edit]

^ Robson, John (2014). "John Watts (1755–1801)". Captain Cook Society. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
^ Phillip (1789)

References[edit]

Phillip, Arthur (1789). The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay : with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island / compiled from authentic papers which have been obtained from the several departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball & Capt. Marshall with an account of their new discoveries. John Stockdale.
- Transcript at Project Gutenberg Australia

[1] Robson, John (2014). "John Watts (1755–1801)". Captain Cook Society. Retrieved 4 January 2015.

[2] Phillip (1789)

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