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Ship Details

Rig

Atholl-class 28 gun 6th rate Corvette

Built

1824

Built In

Chatham Dockyard

Tonnage

500

Demise

broken up 1860

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9 December 1846

Rattlesnake HMS

Rattlesnake HMS

Description

HMS Rattlesnake was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1822. She made a historic voyage of discovery to the Cape York and Torres Strait areas of northern Australia.

Media

Sources

Reference

Captain's log, 1834 - 1838

Location

Public Record Office, London and copy, Australian Joint Copying Project reel 5753

Reference

William Hobson papers and letters, 1833 - 1846

Location

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand MS Papers 46

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Journal of Captain William Hobson, England to Ceylon, 27/03/1835 to 03/08/1835 and Log of same voyage

Location

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand qMS HOB (1835) and MS Papers 1247

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Journal of John Henry Norcock, --/10/1835 to --/05/1837

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National Library of Australia, Canberra MS 5896

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Extracts of 1836 and 1837 visits to Port Phillip

Location

Historic Records Victoria, Volume 1

Reference

Log extracts of both visits

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Latrobe Library, Melbourne

Reference

Three Remark Books, 1836 - 1837 by Mr C Pope and the Captain

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Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, Taunton, England and Australian Joint Copying Project in due course

Reference

Diary, 20 - 23/03/1837 by PP King, Sydney to Melbourne with Governor

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Mitchell Library, Sydney Mss963

Reference

Journals, 1835 - 1850 by Reverend AN Brown including trip, Bay of Islands to Queen Charlotte Sound, 1837

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand qMS BRO1835-5- and Micro MS 30

Reference

Samuel Marsden returned from his seventh New Zealand visit in ship, July 1837; no known journal, but there may be an account in the Marsden papers.

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Master's log, 09/08/1839 - 06/06/1842 and Captain's log, 1841 - 1844

Location

Australian Joint Copying Project reels 1611-12 and 5773

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)

Reference

Log of Logs, Vol 3

Location

South Australian Maritime Museum

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