HMS SIRIUS

Occasional Paper 158: John Palmer: The Colony’s First Principal Commissary

A.N. Other · Apr 4, 2023 ·

By Cheryl Timbury. This paper was first published on 6 February 2012 by the First Fleet Fellowship Victoria Inc ©. John Palmer (1760 – 1833) the first Commissary-General of New ...

Our First Gardeners

Rivett, Norman C · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By Norman Rivett Who were they? The first garden from which Garden Island derives its name commenced here on Monday the 7th of February 1788 when a party from HMS ...

Dangers to Navigation

A.N. Other · Sep 25, 2012 ·

By Lieutenant Commander Tony Maskell, RAN (Rtd) OVER THE YEARS since the arrival of the First Fleet there have been a number of notable shipwrecks. Examples can be found from ...

The Norfolk Island Museum and HMS Sirius

A.N. Other · Mar 3, 2012 ·

By Lisa Richards – Curator Norfolk Island Museum We are pleased to continue a series on maritime museums and in this edition we are grateful for these articles by Lisa ...

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Obituary: Geoffrey Ingleton 1908-1998

Newspaper, Sydney Morning Herald · Jun 27, 1998 ·

One of Australia’s foremost maritime historians, Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Ingleton RAN (Ret.), who has died aged 89, was also an accomplished marine artist and etcher, and a fine cartographer. Geoffrey ...

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HMS Sirius – Australia’s First Flagship

Barton, Alan · Mar 12, 1994 ·

H.M.S. SIRIUS features prominently in our Australian history as she served as Governor Phillip’s flagship, and the guardship to the First Fleet of eleven ships when our nation commenced in ...

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Garden Island Rock Carvings – The Forgotten Men

Rivett, Norman C · Jun 12, 1993 ·

Extract from: The Naval Engineers of Garden Island 102 Years of Naval Management 9th February, 1889 to 15th February, 1991 Most people associated with Garden Island have felt at some ...

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Captain Arthur Phillip – Bathampton’s link with Australia

Darling, Sylvia M. · Jun 29, 1990 ·

Quite a number have heard about it, but not many have seen it, said my hostess as we drove over the crest of a hill in a heavy squall to ...

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Sirius, HMS – Wreckage Recovered from First Fleet Flagship

A.N. Other · Dec 9, 1985 ·

Divers continue the search for Sirius remains FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIVES in the wreck-strewn waters off Norfolk Island an Australian Bicentennial project is slowly piecing together the final chapter in the ...

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