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Ship Details

Rig

HM Colonial Steam Sloop

Built

1855

Built In

Tonnage

880

Built By

Young, Son, Magnay & Co.

Dimensions

167' x 27' x 12'

Demise

1856: Victorian Colonial Navy. 1864: Victorian Government Survey Vessel. 1878: Rearmed . 1882: Sold out of service. 1895 Aug.: Broken up.

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1873 ➜ 12 February 1873

Port MacDonnell

Media

Sources

Reference

Logs, 1855 - 1880

Location

Mainly in Australian Archives, Sydney SP 551 etc

Reference

Logs, 1856 - 1866

Location

Mitchell Library, Sydney MSS 2428X and some in private hands

Reference

AW Greig - "First Australian Warship" in Victoria Historical Magazine, Volume 9.4 (1923)

Location

Victorian Government Papers, no. 108 and 109, Melbourne, 1861-1862

Reference

I MacFarlane - Victoria: A History of HMCCS Victoria (due 1990) including extracts of journal by FO Handfield, held privately in Victoria

Reference

Exploration Edition: Report of Commander Norman, with a copy of his Journal on the late expedition to the Gulf of Carpentaria

Reference

Captain J Kirby - Narrative of a voyage from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1862)

Reference

Account of voyage from Port Phillip to the Gulf of Carpentaria and return as part of the attempted rescue mission of Burke and Wills expedition, 1862 - 1862, with chartered brig Firefly in company, by Colin Jones, in - Mariners Mirror, May 1986 (Journal of Society for Nautical Research, United Kingdom)

Reference

C Jones - Australian colonial Navies (Australian War Memorial, 1986)

Reference

Correspondence regarding dispatch of the "Victoria" to search for shipwrecked persons in - Auckland Islands Search (Melbourne 1865)

Reference

Captain WH Norman and Thomas Musgrave - Journals of the voyage and proceedings of HMCS "Victoria" in search of shipwrecked people at Auckland and other islands (Melbourne, no date, maybe 1866)

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