Historical information

For many years this painting hung in the offices of the Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Company in Port Fairy. It was painted by Arthur Victor Gregory (1867-1957), a water colourist and marine artist. It depicts the Fisheries Investigation Ship Endeavour, a trawler built to the specifications of the Commonwealth Government in 1909 to assist in identifying new fishing grounds in the seas around Australia. The Endeavour was lost in December 1914 between Macquarie Island and Hobart with the loss of all twenty-one men on board, including Harald Dannevig, the Commonwealth Director of Fisheries.

Significance

A Painting of a forgotten ship and crew that were forerunners of investigating the reserves of fish in our oceans.

Physical description

A painting of the F. I. Endeavour in a wooden frame. Scroll work on frame.

Inscriptions & markings

Front - The F. I. Endeavour crossing Bass's Straits
A. V. Gregory 10
Reverse - Regal Patronage
?.8.1854
Arthur V. Gregory
Marine ?
Arthur V. Gregory