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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Flag - Pennant, The Missions to Seamen - Greetings From Australia, 1940-1949
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...This pennant was donated to the Mission by June Muirhead (nee Richardson) who visited the Mission on two occasions: on the 13 November 2014 and then in 2016. She lived from age 3 to 8, with her parents, Cuthbert (Bert) Richardson and Jane (Jenny) Richardson, and her sister, Edna, in the Cottage at 717 Flinders Street. Her father, was the caretaker of the Flinders Street building between 1943-1949. . In 1943 her father was hired to work at the Mission as a caretaker. The family moved from Wonthaggi. When she lived in the Mission, she would sometimes sneak into the club to look at books and pictures. Some seafarers would give her badges, tokens. One of them gave her this felt pennant. In 1949, the family moved back to Wonthaggi and June started year 5 over there.A number of souvenir gifts and small boxes were apparently available through the Mission To Seamen in the 1940s. This acquisition adds to the small collection of items from the period which could be used to form the core of an informative exhibition. Similar flags were made in other countries depicting an animal (kiwi bird in New Zealand, springbox in South Africa) and other Australian towns.A triangular felted, dark blue pennant with printed cursive inscription and motifs including: the Mission to Seamen Flying Angel flag, an outline of Australia; a Koala wearing a captain's hat; an insignia emblem for the Merchant Navy. A looped cotton binding along left edge of the triangle to thread the flag on a stick or cord support. The printed inscription reads: Greetings from Australia.pennant, flags, koala, flying angel club, merchant navy, d. june muirhead, marketing, caretaker, cottage, bert richardson, june muirhead nee richardson, edna richardson, ww2 -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Programme - Concert Programme, Continental for the Mission to Seamen, Pt. Pirie...Souvenir Programme: Saturday 3rd Nov., 1923, 1923
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...This concert programme is advertising a concert to be held for the Mission to Seamen, Pt. Pirie on Saturday, 23rd November 1923. Although it was held for the Port Pirie Mission the actual concert was to take place on board the T.S.S. Port Campbell. The names of the Captain of the ship, the Chairman of the concert, the Accompaniste and Pianist are mentioned. Listed in the programme are the names of the performers and the items they are to perform. A representative example of entertainment offered to seamen in the ports of Australia as organised by Ladies Harbor Lights Guild active in the various Missions to Seamen around Australia. This is a rare example of a concert programme from Port Pirie.A beige-coloured two-sided printed programmeFront page heading reads 'CONTINENTAL'. The title is located half-way down the front page. On pages 2 and 3 Concert Programme .......(full details of performers are listed in centre panel with humorous faux advertisements on outer panels on either side). The programme is hand inscribed on the back page with three signatures: upper left F or T Newman, / J. O'Donoghue; upper right A S C Cooper port pirie, concert, t.s.s. port campbell, missions-to-seamen, ladies harbour lights guild, dances, programmes, commonwealth and dominion line ltd, comic advertisements, lhlg, australian missions -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, Black and white, Argus newspaper, At service in St Peter's Mariner Church, 1952
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Sailors who were welcomed to the Mission for entertainment on Sundays were invited to share a brief evening service along with members of the Ladies Harbour Light Guild hostesses, held in the St Peter's Mariner chapel.This photograph was published in the Argus. The MTSV holds 3 of the 4 photographs published in this article.Black and white gloss photographic print with image of people at worship singingIndigo blue ink stamp : COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH /.../ "The Argus" MELBOURNE AUSTRLIA / NEGATIVE [in pencil] AG990(A)chapel, ladies' harbour lights guild, worship, st peter chapel, pews -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, Sepia, Mounted, Rev W.F Haire, Rev A Gurney Goldsmith; Mr C A Holmes, Mr H K Vickery, Rev A.T. Pitt, circa 1910
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...This photograph depicts five of the Mission's Committee members: top (left to right) are standing Harold Kingston Vickery and Arthur T. Pitt, both Lay Readers. Seated (left to right) are Reverend William Forster Haire, Assistant Chaplain, Reverend Alfred Gurney Goldsmith, Chaplain, and Mr Charles A. Holmes, Honorary Lay Reader. The photograph was probably taken inside the Central Institute, Siddeley Street, between 1909 and 1911.An original frame with an image of a group of Mission office-bearers including Rev Gurney-Goldsmith who was Senior Chaplain over the significant early 20th Century period of Mission establishment in the Central Docklands area. Sepia photograph in a wood frame with group of five men in suits; ink inscription of five names on paper label adhered lwr front of frameFront on paper label: Revd W.F Haire, Revd A. G.Goldsmith; Mr C A Holmes (paper cut) / Mr H. K Vickery, Revd A.T. Pitt; Verso at lwr right crnr in pencil: PH- R14 reverend a. gurney-goldsmith, mr h.k. vickery, reverend a.t. pitt, reverend w. foster haire, charles a. holmes, charles arthur holmes (-1947), william foster haire, harold kingston vickery, chaplains, lay readers, staff, chaplains group -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Decorative object - Nativity, Mid - Late 20th C
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Group of Polychrome matte glazed stoneware nativity figures - Group of 8 (Incomplete)nativity, mary, joseph, shepherds, kings, animals, jesus, angel, sheep, christmas -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Decorative object - Nativity, Post World War 2 (1950s - 60s)
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...A group of 18 pieces, polychrome moulded plastic figures; On the side of each figure copyright symbol and maker's mark, indecipherable ... plasticsmary, joseph, shepherds, kings, animals, nativty, christmas, jesus, camel, donkey, cow, sheep, balthazar, melchior, gaspard -
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Card - Invitation card, The Victoria Missions to Seamen, 1906
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...The original date for the laying of Foundation stone for the first Mission building at Australian Wharf in 1906 had to be changed to the 5th of February 1907 due to industrial action at the Wharves. See scrapbooks and clippings for details. Lord Northcote the Governor General officiated. The invitation marks the establishment for the first time at the Australian Wharf official recognition of the need to establish a Mission for seafarers in this location, some six years after presentation of the letter in 1897 from 22 Captains urging and requesting a respectable and convenient facility. Just ten years later the Mission would have to move to an adjacent site and raise funds for yet another Mission building in 1916. A heavy card with crimped edge with commercially printed invitation in cursive scripts from the Archbishop of Melbourne and the Members of the Committee of the Mission. A blue flying angel Missions to Seamen flag is printed in the top left corner. The invitee name is written in sepia ink as is an altered date. Ink inscriptions: the Rev A.G. Goldsmith and Mrs Goldsmith // ; printed date of Friday 14th of December 1906 is crossed out and superscribed in handwritten ink as: Tuesday 5th of February 1907 lord northcote, governor general, rev gurney goldsmith, foundation stone, australian wharf, the melbourne missions to seamen, victorian seamen's mission, 1907, siddeley street, alfred gurney goldsmith, walter richmond butler -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Newspaper - Clipping, To Help the Missions to Seamen and St John's Guild, 7th October 1922
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...This vital fundraiser event was held at Lady Fraser's house, opened by Lady Forster and featured in respective issues of Punch and Table talk , October 12th 1922. Also reported in the Argus on Monday 9th of October 1922.The event raised important funds towards the costs of opening the Dome Gymnasium at the 717 Flinders St Mission to Seafarers. The building became known eventually as the 'Norla Dome Gymnasium"A large whole page (p.34) clipping from Punch journal featuring a photo-essay of an event at a garden fete at Norla in 1922. The page is annotated in places with identifying names in handwritten ink;Some hand-inscribed annotations in blue ink some indecipherable: "Lady Lyle" and "Lady Miller", G. Hawkey, are clear.norla dome, gymnasium, lady fraser, gladys hawkey -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph, circa 1935
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...In 1935, the CB Pedersen arrived on the 13th of April after 198 days at sea. The ship left on the 18th June (date written on the photograph) after two months in Melbourne. Captain Dalhstrom had been its skipper for 13 years. In the Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 27 April 1937, page 12: "The C. B. Pedersen was built in 1891. It has visited Australia several times, the most recent occasion having been in 1935, when It was anchored in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, for several weeks, awaiting a suitable cargo. At length the master, (Captain Hjalmar Dahlström) announced that, as no cargo could be obtained he would be prepared to carry passengers in a voyage to Gothenburg, via Torres Strait. Eight persons, including three women and a small boy were accepted as passengers, and signed on as members of the crew at salaries of 1/ a month". Artist Violet Teague was one of the passengers. She painted during the voyage and exhibited her work in 1938. Built in 1891 the C.B Pedersen, a four-masted steel barque (2142 tons) was used as a training Barque. The ship foundered in April 1937, the crew was saved.The C.B. Pedersen was one of the last windjammers sailing in the 1930s with the Herzogin Cecilie and the Grace Harwar. Black and white photographLower right corner front in black ink: H. Dahlström / June 13th 1935 / On board the CBP / in Hobson's Bayc.b. pedersen, captain hjalmar dahlström, violet teague, windjammer, sweden -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph, Peckham Photographic Studios, Geo Beachcroft, Capt Dahlström and 2nd mate of the C.B. Pedersen, c. 1935
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...In the Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 27 April 1937, page 12: "The C. B. Pedersen was built in 1891. It has visited Australia several times, the most recent occasion having been in 1935, when It was anchored in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, for several weeks, awaiting a suitable cargo. At length the master, (Captain Hjalmar Dahlström) announced that, as no cargo could be obtained he would be prepared to carry passengers in a voyage to Gothenburg, via Torres Strait. Eight persons, including three women and a small boy were accepted as passengers, and signed on as members of the crew at salaries of 1/ a month". Artist Violet Teague was one of the passengers. She painted during the voyage and exhibited her work in 1938. Built in 1891 the C.B Pedersen, a four-masted steel barque (2142 tons) was used as a training Barque. The ship foundered in April 1937, the crew was saved. Several photographs of the C.B. Pedersen taken by the same studio are held at the State Library of Victoria.see links aboveBlack and white photograph depicting two sailors in attire on the deck of a ship.verso in Black ink; Photographic studio stampcrew, c.b pedersen, captain hjalmar dahlström, violet teague, windjammer -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Decorative object - Finial, c. 1920
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Appearances to the contrary, the item is not a weathervane but a finial. It was the gift of Mr John Sanderson (Jottings Easter 1920), from John Sanderson & Co., wool merchants, stock and station agents, commission and shipping agents before he leaves for England to become senior partner in Sanderson Murray & Elder, London, import and export agents. It was designed by Walter & Richard Butler Architects. (sketch published in Building : the magazine for the architect, builder, property owner and merchant vol.33, no 193, 12 Sept. 1923). The finial was already drawn on the sketch of the Central Institute made by Walter Butler. The maker of the finial, was Henry Alfred George Arnold Saw (born June 1881 in Hotham, Victoria was the son of Edward Saw (1854-1926) a tinsmith and Catherine Barton (1863-1907). He worked as a metal artificer for a metal-working business located opposite the Trades Hall in Lygon Street and was given the job of making the copper ship finial. Henry married Florence Charlotte Reeder and they had four children. Also known as Harry Saw according to his grandson Brian, he died on 9th February 1960. Henry and Florence both died within two months of each other in 1960. It is not clear when the ship was actually installed on the roof, the earliest photograph dating from 1927. The windvane fell or moved several times because of gale forces: - In 1995 : After the funds were raised to repair it, it was treated by sculptor David Hope, and reinstalled in the 1998 (Ship to Shore #3 Sept 1998). - In 2017: Carmela Lonetti from the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (Ship to Shore Autumn 2017) - In 2019: a generous passerby donated the necessary funds for the conservation. It was sent to Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (Ship to Shore 2019), treated by Evan Tindal (City of Melbourne Magainze Oct. 2020). It was reinstalled over the Summer of 2019-2020 (Ship to Shore Summer 2020). The weathervane was stolen during the night of the 6-7 March 2022. Copper price surge sparks rise in theft in Victoria in 2021-22 so it's likely the vane was stolen to be melted This sculpture is closely associated with the 1917 building and described in clippings and annual reports when the building was first newly opened. It can be seen in some of the earliest photographs of the new building and in the artist/architect Butler's impressions. The galleon is often a decorative design of Mission to Seafarers wind vane (London, Adelaide).Bronze and copper sculpture fashioned as a Wind Vane in the form of a Galleon style sailing ship with 2 pennants flying and two sails rigged atop with lower cross piece with wind directions N S E W . There is a decorative ornamental pierced scrollwork ferrule / finial with reinforcing chrome steel piping armature at base of main support which attaches to the roof or a base support. See also comments below weather vane, wind vane, sculpture, galleon, sailing ship, finial, henry alfred saw, david hope, windvane, weathervane, walter richmond butler (1864–1949), richard butler, john sanderson -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Artwork, other - Carved wood panel, The Last Supper, c. 1950
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...The style suggests that it may have been part of the fittings of the newly opened 1937 George V memorial building at Port Melbourne. Possibly hung in the Dining hall.Religious artSolid heavy wood panel carved in relief depicting 12 bearded figures, robed and seated around a table covered with a cloth. The table is laid with seven dishes, a loaf of bread, a wine cup in front of the central figure and a dish below the table on the floor at left, and a wine or oil jar at right. The sculptor has carved the wood in a style reminiscent of the medieval or early renaissance craftsmen. There are three modern steel screw attachments for hanging attached at verso on sides and centre top edge. The subject is the Last Supper of Jesus and his twelve disciples, with Judas at left end of the table seeming to cover with his hand a bag, perhaps the 30 pieces of silver.the last supper, jesus, disciples, carving, sculpture -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionSingle page, single-sided letter lined paper (0352.a1) dated 26/02/47 with blue-lined, stamped envelope (0352.b). letters-from-abroad, allan quinn, s.s.morgenster, 1947 -
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Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionTwo-page letter on unlined paper (0353.a1, 0353.a2) written 'at sea' dated 06/04/47 with pale, blue stamped envelope (0353.b). 0353.a1 is double-sided, 0353.a2 single-sided.letters-from-abroad, quinn, ship 'm.i.ariston' -
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Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionTwo-page, single-sided letter on unlined paper (0354.a1, 0354.a2) written 'at sea' dated 01/05/47. The stamped, pale blue correo aereo envelope (0354.b) incorporates a horizontal dark blue stripe and a red stripe. letters from abroad, quinn, 1947, ship m.i.ariston -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, reproduction, Ebenezer James, Chaplain Mission to Seamen 1886 - 1901, 2016
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...see makers comments above. Rev James was also Chaplain to the Naval Forces of Victoria until the time of Federation. The article featured in the Port Gazette seems to be a profile of James and his works and headline being: "Jack's Friend" Rev Ebenezer James one of the early Chaplains based at the Mission to Seafarers. He ministered to and advocated on behalf of the seagoing fraternity both merchant and Naval forces and was an instrumental force in the stamping out of the practice of crimping and the exploitation of seafarers. He received and forwarded the letter from 22 sea captains (MTSV 0030 requesting the establishment of a Mission in the vicinity of the Australian Wharf. James' brother was an MLC and his daughter Britomarte is also noted with an entry in the ADB. The original clipping image of James is the only known existing image.Black and white gloss print photograph of 19th Century bearded man ; new wood frame, cream window mount ; glazed with perspex, composition back board. This photograph is a reproduction of an image found on a scrapbook clipping taken from and originally published in the Port Gazette of July 25th 1896. Verso - Texta inscription catalogue number : MTSV 0707 also 2 Labels on backboard of frame one a barcode and one handwritten "EBENEZER JAMES / CHAPLAIN, MISSION TO SEAMEN (1886 - 1901)ebenezer james, chaplain, jack tar, crimping, missions to seamen, port melbourne -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, Black and white, McIlwraith & McEwan, Early 20th Century
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...The pencilled inscription at the back of the Mount indicateur the photograph was taken for a newspaper. Likely between 1920-1930, maybe for the Grain Race.An illustrative image demonstrating the effort involved in hauling ship's rigging and mast ropes. Also provides a snapshot of seamen's clothing from an early 20th C period. Mounted large black and white photographic print; the mount is friable ( see condition report) shows 2 seamen in working uniform hauling on main mast ropes and riggingPencil inscription on back of mount : McIlwraith & McEwan / measurements indecipherable/ Thursdayseamen, rigging, sailing ships, crews and ships, life on board, ropes, mcilwraith and mcewan, shipping companies -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, Black and white, Group of Swedes - Boxing Day 1920, 26 December 1920
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Supporters of the Mission often made their homes and gardens available as venue for Christmas Boxing day and Cup day events or picnics. On Boxing Day 1920 around 100 men were welcomed by Mr and Mrs Duckett on the grounds of the home Riversdale. They went there on a river excursion.A record of just one group of international sailors a long way from their home an country attending a Mission event. Black and white photograph of a trio of sailors in dress uniform – 2 seated on cane garden chairs one with piano-accordion being played. The standing sailor holds a cameraPencil inscription on verso in pencil handwritten :" Boxing day 1920 / Group of Swedes" ; at right angles a number "893"camera, uniforms, accordeon, accordion, picnic, seamen, swedish, 1920, boxing day, riversdale, edward duckett -
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Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionTwo-page letter on unlined paper (0355.a1, 0355.a2) written 'at sea' dated 22/05/47. 0355.a1 is double-sided. The stamped, pale blue correo aereo envelope (0355.b) incorporates a horizontal dark blue stripe and a red stripe. letters from abroad, quinn, 1947, ship m.i.ariston -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionTwo-page letter on unlined paper (0356.a1, 0356.a2) written 'at sea' dated 07/08/47 with blue 'Correo Aereo', stamped envelope (0356.b). 0356.a1 is double-sided, 0356.a2 single-sided.letters-from-abroad, quinn, ship 'm.i.ariston', 1947 -
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Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionThree-page, double-sided letter on unlined paper (0357.a1-a3) written from the Seamens Institute, New York and dated 31/08/47 with cream, stamped envelope (0357.b). Envelope inscription notes change of address to 140 Brunswick Road, Brunswick, Victoria. letters-from-abroad, quinn, seamens institute, new york, 1947 -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionSingle-page, double-sided letter on unlined paper (0358.a) written from the New York and dated 23/09/47 with blue-lined,unstamped envelope (0358.b). letters-from abroad, quinn, new york, 1947 -
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Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionTwo-page, double-sided letter on unlined paper (0359.a1-a2) written on board S.S.Morgenster, dated 19/10/47 with blue-lined, stamped envelope (0359.b). Envelope bears United States postage two stamps.Envelope has been re-addressed to 140 Brunswick Road, Brunswick, Victorialetters-from-abroad, quinn, s.s.morgenster, 1947 -
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Letter - Correspondence, 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Quinn CollectionTwo-page, letter on unlined paper (0360.a1-a2) written 'at sea' on board S.S.Morgonster, dated 14/11/47. 0360.a1 is double-sided, 0360.a2 is single-sided and numbered '5', letters-from-abroad, quinn, s.s.morgenster, 1947 -
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Letter - Correspondence, Britt (Swedish correspondent), 1947
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...Indicates a friendship at that dateQuinn CollectionTwo-page, double-sided letter on lined paper (0361.a1, a2) written in Swedish by Britt and dated 26/11/47. Any stamps have been torn off the envelope (0361.b). quinn, letter from sweden -
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Book, Naval Institute Press, The Naval Officer's Guide, 1970
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...509 pages, illustrated , navy linen cover with light blue dust jacket.non-fictionhoward timbury, first fleet fellowship victoria, interest group, education, navigation -
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Book, Naval Institute Press, Standard Seamanship for the Merchant navy, 1970
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...509 pages, illustrated , navy linen cover with light blue dust jacket.non-fictionhoward timbury, first fleet fellowship victoria, interest group, education, navigation -
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Book, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, 1970
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...509 pages, illustrated , navy linen cover with light blue dust jacket.non-fictionhoward timbury, first fleet fellowship victoria, interest group, education, navigation, joshua slocum -
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Book, Basil Lubbock, The Colonial Clippers, 1948
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...From the Preface: "In this book I have attempted to give some account of the beautiful sailing ships which played so great a part in the development of the great British Dominions under the Southern Cross. It is written specially for the officers and seamen of our Mercantile Marine, and I have endeavoured to avoid such a criticism as the following:—“Heaps about other ships, but my old barkey was one of the fastest and best known of them all and he dismisses her with a line or two.” I have made rather a point of giving passage records, as they are an everlasting theme of interest when seamen get together and yarn about old ships. The memory is notoriously unreliable where sailing records are concerned, so I have been most careful to check these from logbooks and Captains’ reports. Even Lloyd’s I have found to be out by a day or two on occasions. A great deal of my material has been gathered bit by bit through the past 25 or 30 years. Alas! many of the old timers, who so kindly lent me abstract logs and wrote me interesting letters, have now passed away. The illustrations, I hope, will be appreciated, for these,viii whether they are old lithographs or more modern photographs, are more and more difficult to unearth, and a time will soon come when they will be unprocurable. Indeed, if there is any value in this book it is because it records and illustrates a period in our sea history, the memory of which is already fast fading into the misty realms of the past. To preserve this memory, before it becomes impossible, is one of the main objects, if not the main object, of my work."430 pp. on art paper. approx 60 illustrations, photos, sketches, all B&W. Extensive appendices according to the trades the ships engaged in. Long index, examples of log entries, mapsnon-fictionFrom the Preface: "In this book I have attempted to give some account of the beautiful sailing ships which played so great a part in the development of the great British Dominions under the Southern Cross. It is written specially for the officers and seamen of our Mercantile Marine, and I have endeavoured to avoid such a criticism as the following:—“Heaps about other ships, but my old barkey was one of the fastest and best known of them all and he dismisses her with a line or two.” I have made rather a point of giving passage records, as they are an everlasting theme of interest when seamen get together and yarn about old ships. The memory is notoriously unreliable where sailing records are concerned, so I have been most careful to check these from logbooks and Captains’ reports. Even Lloyd’s I have found to be out by a day or two on occasions. A great deal of my material has been gathered bit by bit through the past 25 or 30 years. Alas! many of the old timers, who so kindly lent me abstract logs and wrote me interesting letters, have now passed away. The illustrations, I hope, will be appreciated, for these,viii whether they are old lithographs or more modern photographs, are more and more difficult to unearth, and a time will soon come when they will be unprocurable. Indeed, if there is any value in this book it is because it records and illustrates a period in our sea history, the memory of which is already fast fading into the misty realms of the past. To preserve this memory, before it becomes impossible, is one of the main objects, if not the main object, of my work."clippers, basil lubbock, loch vennachar, loch gary, loch ryan, loch sloy ship, hobsons bay, mermerus -
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Book, John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 2006
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...More than four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and circumnavigated the world to bring home the Golden Hind laden with Spanish treasure. His attacks on Spanish cities and ships transformed his private war into a struggle for survival between Protestant England and Catholic Spain, in which he became Elizabeth I's most prominent admiral. His exploits marked the emergence of England as a major maritime nation.Pocket booknon-fictionMore than four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and circumnavigated the world to bring home the Golden Hind laden with Spanish treasure. His attacks on Spanish cities and ships transformed his private war into a struggle for survival between Protestant England and Catholic Spain, in which he became Elizabeth I's most prominent admiral. His exploits marked the emergence of England as a major maritime nation.sea exploration, navigators, francis drake, explorators