Admiral Barrington (1781 ship)

Admiral Barrington was a 527 ton convict ship dispatched in 1791 from England to Australia.

She was built in 1781 in France and was employed as a French West Indiaman. She was captured and was later sold to Godfrey Thornton. She was renamed Admiral Barrington and she served in the East India Company from 1786 till 1788.

Under the command of Robert Abbon Marsh, she sailed from Portsmouth, England, in 1791 as part of the third fleet with 300 male convicts and arrived in Port Jackson, New South Wales on 16 October 1791. She was the last ship to arrive in Sydney. Thirty-six convicts died during the voyage.

While on her way back to England, she conducted whaling off the Australian coast.

Fate
While anchored at Bombay, India in 1791, a large storm made her break her anchor and she was wrecked on Malwan Island.