The Friendship arrived in Port Jackson on 16th February 1800. Her Master was Hugh Reed. The journal below was kept by Captain Reed's wife and published in the Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India under the title: "Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship, H.R.----, commander; or, the Occurrences of a Voyage from Ireland to New South Wales, the South Sea, the Spice Islands, and Bengal, and thence back to Europe; performed in the years 1799, 1800 and 1801."

The Friendship sailed from London for Cork at the end of March 1799 and carried to Australia some of the prisoners involved in the rebellion in Ireland.

The journal begins in June while the Friendship was still lying at the passage of Waterford.

Convicts of the Friendship later sent to Newcastle and the Hunter Valley included:  David Bell, William Briggs, Hugh Develyn, Timothy Hector, Thomas Logan and Thomas Osborne .