John Watts
Royal Navy officer
About John Watts
Lived 1755 – 1801 (aged 45–46).
John Watts (1755–1801) was a Royal Navy officer. He served as a midshipman in 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.
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Who was John Watts?
Royal Navy officer (1755-1801)
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John Watts was born in 1755.
When did John Watts die?
John Watts died in 1801.
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