If you read the book "The Floating Brothel",you will see that the ship(s) carrying female transportees to Australia were veritable hotbeds of lust & licentiousness, and that many if not all of these ladies were "partnered" with various members of the ships crew,although not,it seems ,with the Captain ( just not done,don't you know chaps ?)--- in fact,many of these relationships resulted in close bonds being formed by the participants ; however, there were few if any happy endings,as the women,on arrival in Australia,were carted off to the penal colonies and forced to marry convicts,and thus produce the first Australians. One crewman,the ship's carpenter I believe, a Scotsman,was heartbroken ,and spent YEARS trying to be re-united with his shipboard "wife",who was obliged to marry a convict "out of hand", but with no success,sadly.