Reliance
Royal Navy ship, colonial transport (1795-1800)
The Reliance left England in February 1795 carrying the new governor of New South Wales, John Hunter, the surgeon George Bass and the midshipman Matthew Flinders. She reached Port Jackson in September 1795.
The ship then served to supply the colony, notably from the Cape of Good Hope, whence she brought back livestock. On board her, in 1799, was born Trim, the cat who would follow Flinders on all his voyages. The Reliance carried Flinders back to England in 1800.






