Plymouth - Australia Modify Page Content Ship Summary Vessel Rattlesnake HMS Masters Stanley, Owen Journey Origin Plymouth Depart Date Wednesday, December 9, 1846 Destination Australia Media Upload Media PassengersView Full List Submit Sources Reference Master's log, 1846 - 1850 Location Australian Joint Copying Project Public Record Office reel, 1612 Reference Remark Book, 1848 Location Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, England and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course Reference Journal, Portsmouth, 02/12/1846 to Sydney, 15/07/1847 by Reverend RL King Location Mitchell Library, Sydney MSS 673/4 Reference Papers of Stanley family, including letters, notes and accounts of time in Britomart, 1837 - 1839 and Rattlesnake, 1849 - 1850 and extracts from Huxley's diary, 1849 - 1850 Location National Library of Australia, Canberra G743 - MS rel,187 and Mitchell Library, Sydney FM4/2127 Reference Letters, c1837 - 1850 from Owen Stanley to his father including with 1849 correspondence a manuscript copy of fifth cruise, 03/06/1849 - 02/10/1849 and continuation of this account, 16/10/1849 - --/01/1850 and extracts from Thomas Huxley's diary, 1849 - 1850 Location Australian Joint Copying Project M reel 463 Reference Papers of Thomas Huxley, A/Surgeon, including noon positions, 1846 - 1850 Location Mitchell Library, Sydney FM4/126 and National Library of Australia, Canberra, and original in Unwin Library, Arts and Guilds College, South Kensington Reference Huxley manuscript Location Imperial College of Science, London Reference Huxley diary, 1846 - 1850 Location copy, Mitchell Library, Sydney FM4/2127 and Australian Joint Copying Project M876 - 916 Reference Thomas Huxley - TH Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake (London 1935) Location Reference Thomas Henry Huxley - The Oceanic Hydrozoa : A description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of HMS Rattlesnake in the years 1846 - 1850 (London 1859) Location Mitchell Library, Sydney A 507 -9 and FM 4/2560 Reference Journal by Oswald Brierley, artist Location Mitchell Library, Sydney A3925 Reference Log, 24/09/1846 - 27/08/1848 by John MacGillivray Location Reference John MacGillivray - Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake, 1846 - 1850 (two volumes) (London 1852 and Adelaide 1967) Location copy, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart and Mitchell Library, Sydney FM4/2231 Reference MacGillivray's notebook, 1844 - 1849 Location Mitchell Library, Sydney B1628 and FM3/453 Reference Journal by JF Wilcox, botanist, 1848 - 1849 Location National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom SHP/1-2 Reference PR Sharpe - Jottings, 1835 - 1853 Location National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 3784 Reference Diary, 1849 - 1850 by GH Inskip, including tender Bramble Location National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 4029 Reference Log, 02/05/1849 - 13/03/1850 by Midshipman James Thomas Stanton Location Mitchell Library, Sydney A 501, A 502 and CY Pos 559 Reference Journal, 1848 - 1850 Reference AL Knight - The Mids of the Rattlesnake (London 1871), may be fiction Reference Marnie Bassett - Behind the picture: HM Rattlesnake's Australia to New Guinea cruise, 1846 - 1850 (Melbourne, 1966) Reference A Lubbock - Owen Stanley, RN, Captain of HMS Rattlesnake (Melbourne, 1968) Your Stories Your name * E-mail * Post your story * Submit Leave this field blank Share this Page Share this voyage with your friends and followers online.
Reference Master's log, 1846 - 1850 Location Australian Joint Copying Project Public Record Office reel, 1612
Reference Remark Book, 1848 Location Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, England and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course
Reference Journal, Portsmouth, 02/12/1846 to Sydney, 15/07/1847 by Reverend RL King Location Mitchell Library, Sydney MSS 673/4
Reference Papers of Stanley family, including letters, notes and accounts of time in Britomart, 1837 - 1839 and Rattlesnake, 1849 - 1850 and extracts from Huxley's diary, 1849 - 1850 Location National Library of Australia, Canberra G743 - MS rel,187 and Mitchell Library, Sydney FM4/2127
Reference Letters, c1837 - 1850 from Owen Stanley to his father including with 1849 correspondence a manuscript copy of fifth cruise, 03/06/1849 - 02/10/1849 and continuation of this account, 16/10/1849 - --/01/1850 and extracts from Thomas Huxley's diary, 1849 - 1850 Location Australian Joint Copying Project M reel 463
Reference Papers of Thomas Huxley, A/Surgeon, including noon positions, 1846 - 1850 Location Mitchell Library, Sydney FM4/126 and National Library of Australia, Canberra, and original in Unwin Library, Arts and Guilds College, South Kensington
Reference Huxley diary, 1846 - 1850 Location copy, Mitchell Library, Sydney FM4/2127 and Australian Joint Copying Project M876 - 916
Reference Thomas Huxley - TH Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake (London 1935) Location
Reference Thomas Henry Huxley - The Oceanic Hydrozoa : A description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of HMS Rattlesnake in the years 1846 - 1850 (London 1859) Location Mitchell Library, Sydney A 507 -9 and FM 4/2560
Reference John MacGillivray - Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake, 1846 - 1850 (two volumes) (London 1852 and Adelaide 1967) Location copy, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart and Mitchell Library, Sydney FM4/2231
Reference Journal by JF Wilcox, botanist, 1848 - 1849 Location National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom SHP/1-2
Reference PR Sharpe - Jottings, 1835 - 1853 Location National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 3784
Reference Diary, 1849 - 1850 by GH Inskip, including tender Bramble Location National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 4029
Reference Log, 02/05/1849 - 13/03/1850 by Midshipman James Thomas Stanton Location Mitchell Library, Sydney A 501, A 502 and CY Pos 559
Reference Marnie Bassett - Behind the picture: HM Rattlesnake's Australia to New Guinea cruise, 1846 - 1850 (Melbourne, 1966)
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