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From Lubbock's "Colonial Clippers"
(LA) LIVERPOOL
& AUSTRALIAN
NAVIGATION CO.
(GIBBS, BRIGHT &
CO.)
STEAM AUXILIARIES
GREAT BRITAIN-
iscs 1f6bkn
3,448g 1843
Bristol
One of
the earliest known photographs of a ship - taken in 1844
By
Fox
Talbot
"The Advent of Steam", ed. Robert Gardiner
Rig
Changes:
1843 6 masts (yards
on Mast No. 2)
1846
reduced to 5 masts (yards on masts nos. 2 and 3)
1852
reduced to 4 masts (yards on masts Nos. 2 and 3); and
1853
reduced to 3 masts (ship rig with yards on all masts)
Funnel
changes:
1843 one
funnel:
1852 two
funnels;and
1853 one funnel
(a) As built
Artist: Charles Dickson Gregory
The artist's "Australian Steamships"
(b)Voyages to Australia 1852-1874)
(i) First Voyage 1852 (with 2 funnels and
yards
on masts Nos. 2 and 3)
Lithograph by
T.G. Dutton
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K.
(after Samuel Walters)
(PAH8914)
GREAT BRITAIN leaving Prince's Pier,
Liverpool, for Australia
Illustrated London News 1852
Arrival at Sydney Cove, 1852
From a postcard
State Library of Victoria
(H93.8/116)
(ii) Voyages
1854 - 1874 with one funnel and ship rig
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Dickson Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
ROYAL CHARTER –
iscs 1f 3s 2132gt 1855
Sandycroft (near Chester)
Artist:
Charles Dickson Gregory
The artist's "Australian Steamships"
Loss of
the Royal Charter on the coast of Anglesea, October 1859
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
U.K.
(PAH0291)
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Ship details
of Great Britain from Ewan Corlett's "The Iron Ship: The Story of
Brunel's S.S. Great Britain" (Conway Maritime
Press Ltd.,
London, revised
edition 1990). Ship details of Royal
Charter from John M.
Maber's "North
Star to Southern Cross" (T.Stephenson &
Sons Ltd., Prescot,
Lancs 1967)
(RETURN)