Lieutenant Daniel Southwell (c. 1764 – 21 August 1797) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who as a midshipman was part of the crew of HMS Sirius when it sailed with the First Fleet to found a penal colony in Botany Bay.
[2][3] After six months, on 13 November 1780, he was promoted to ordinary seaman and transferred to HMS Monkey, a newly purchased 12-gun cutter under the command of Ocean's former first lieutenant James Glasford.
In October 1788 she sailed to Cape Town to get food supplies, returning to Port Jackson in May 1789, completing a circumnavigation in this voyage.
[1] A series of letters from Southwell to his parents in England offers depictions of early colonial life and the first substantive interactions between Europeans and Australian Aborigines.
He saw active service in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars but was wounded in action off the Portuguese coast and died in Lisbon Hospital on 21 August 1797.