Fly Modify Page Content Ship Details Rig HM ship/sloop 18 guns Tonnage 485 VoyagesView Full List Fly England Port Stephens Description HMS Bramble and tender Prince George often in company. Also ship's pinnace, Midge, as survey boat Media Upload Media Sources Reference Captain's logs Location Australian Joint Copying Project Public Record Office 5768-9 Reference Journal, 1842 - 1844 by EA Porcher, crew; notebook of positions, England to Van Diemen's Lands, 1842; logs, 1844 - 1846, including "Prince George" Location National Library of Australia, Canberra MS4602 Reference Log, 1842 - 1846 Location R E Barker Collection, National Maritime Museum, United Kingdom, BRK/10-11 Reference Remark book, 1843 - 1844, by F Evans Location Hydrographic Department, Taunton OD90 and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course Reference Letters, 1843 - 1844 from Captain Blackwood to Captain PP King, Royal Navy Location Mitchell Library, Sydney A3599 Reference Letter by Captain Blackwood, regarding passage of Torres Strait in western monsoon, April 1845 Location Dea Thomson papers, volume 3, page 130, Mitchell Library, Sydney A1531-3 Reference Log, 4.4.45 - 7.4.46 by Lieutenant J Ince, Royal Navy Location Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney Reference Remark book, 1845 - 1846 in Torres Strait Location Hydrographic Department, Taunton OD90 and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course Reference Harden Sydney Melville - Sketches in Australia and Adjacent Islands during the Surveying Voyage of HMS Fly and Bramble, 1842 - 1846 (London c1848) Reference Harden Sydney Melville - The Adventures of a Griffin on a Voyage of Discovery. Written by himself (London 1867) Reference J Beete Lukes - Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of HMS Fly: commanded by Captain FP Blackwood, RN in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago during the years 1842 - 1846: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java (Two volumes, London 1847) Reference Outline of the voyage; Sourabaya, 12.1.1845 to Port Essington to Torres Strait to New Guinea - Sydney Morning Herald, 10.7.45 Your Stories Your name * E-mail * Post your story * Submit Leave this field blank Share this Page Share this ship with your friends and followers online.
Reference Journal, 1842 - 1844 by EA Porcher, crew; notebook of positions, England to Van Diemen's Lands, 1842; logs, 1844 - 1846, including "Prince George" Location National Library of Australia, Canberra MS4602
Reference Log, 1842 - 1846 Location R E Barker Collection, National Maritime Museum, United Kingdom, BRK/10-11
Reference Remark book, 1843 - 1844, by F Evans Location Hydrographic Department, Taunton OD90 and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course
Reference Letters, 1843 - 1844 from Captain Blackwood to Captain PP King, Royal Navy Location Mitchell Library, Sydney A3599
Reference Letter by Captain Blackwood, regarding passage of Torres Strait in western monsoon, April 1845 Location Dea Thomson papers, volume 3, page 130, Mitchell Library, Sydney A1531-3
Reference Log, 4.4.45 - 7.4.46 by Lieutenant J Ince, Royal Navy Location Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Reference Remark book, 1845 - 1846 in Torres Strait Location Hydrographic Department, Taunton OD90 and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course
Reference Harden Sydney Melville - Sketches in Australia and Adjacent Islands during the Surveying Voyage of HMS Fly and Bramble, 1842 - 1846 (London c1848)
Reference Harden Sydney Melville - The Adventures of a Griffin on a Voyage of Discovery. Written by himself (London 1867)
Reference J Beete Lukes - Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of HMS Fly: commanded by Captain FP Blackwood, RN in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago during the years 1842 - 1846: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java (Two volumes, London 1847)
Reference Outline of the voyage; Sourabaya, 12.1.1845 to Port Essington to Torres Strait to New Guinea - Sydney Morning Herald, 10.7.45
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