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C1897
(1910)
[AUSTRALIA-WA] Esperance Bay Anchorage / Mary Ann Haven (Hopetoun Harbour)
Scarce Hydrographic chart of of Esperance and Hopetown, Western Australia. When first published on 19th November, 1897 the chart only contained the left inset of “Esperance Bay“, the right hand side was left blank. In this edition Mary Ann Haven … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
[AUSTRALIA-WA] Esperance Bay Anchorage / Mary Ann Haven (Hopetoun Harbour)
Date:
C1897
(1910)
Engraver:
Davies & Co.
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
652mm
x 487mm
Paper Size:
701mm
x 511mm
AUTHENTICITY
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Genuine antique
dated:
1910
Description:
Scarce Hydrographic chart of of Esperance and Hopetown, Western Australia. When first published on 19th November, 1897 the chart only contained the left inset of “Esperance Bay“, the right hand side was left blank. In this edition Mary Ann Haven has been added to on the right hand side inset. First published 19th November 1897, New editions October 1900 and July 1910, and small corrections 1936. Manuscript corrections have been added in red ink 1938.
Esperance :
Town was gazetted on 27th September 1895, the chart shows the 2nd jetty which was completed in 1935 and the railway line to Norseman.
Hopetoun:
Mary Ann Harbour was named in 1865 by the sealer James Sale on the cutter Mary Ann. The Mary Ann was owned by whaling master John Thomas of Cheyne’s Beach, 65 kilometres (40 mi) east of Albany, who had named it after his eldest daughter. Hopetoun was established in 1900 as the port servicing the Phillips River goldfield, named after the first Governor-General of Australia, John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun. The townsite was gazetted on 9 February 1901. The town became a shipping port for the mining industry, with a jetty built in 1901, the terminus of a railway line between Hopetoun and Ravensthorpe that operated from 1909 to 1935.
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Captain Owen Stanley (1811 - 1850)
Stanley was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor, entered the Royal Naval College at the age of fifteen. After gaining the rank of midshipman in 1826, in 1826–1827, he spent time in South America on board HMS Ganges. In 1830, he was with Phillip Parker King on board HMS Adventure while it surveyed the Straits of Magellan at the tip of South America. In December 1846 Stanley sailed from Portsmouth in charge of HMS Rattlesnake, with the naturalists Thomas Huxley, John MacGillivray and artist Oswald Walters Brierly on board, accompanied by Charles Bampfield Yule in HMS Bramble. In November 1847 he arrived at Port Curtis on the Australian coast, and after surveying the harbour described it as a very good anchorage. In 1848 he continued further north to survey New Guinea, and in June of that year offered protection and assistance to Edmund Kennedy’s expedition to Cape York Peninsula. Owen went on to survey the Louisiade Archipelago but in 1849 fell ill, and died in March 1850 after returning to Sydney.
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Hydrographic charting of Australia History ( - )
Naval policy dictated that Admiralty charts be destroyed when superseded to avoid navigational error. It was during Rear Admiral John Washington’s period as the Admiralty’s hydrographer, 1855-1863, that a series of agreements were drawn up with the Australian colonies. These agreements provided boats and crews for use by officers lent from the Royal Navy to chart the coasts and shoal waters in the approaches to the rapidly developing towns, communication with which was seriously hampered by the the frequency of shipwrecks. It had been the discovery of gold and the consequent rush of miners and emigrants from not only England but California that added greatly the numbers of ships sailing to Australia’s east coast. This led to numerous petitions being made to Her Majesty’s Government to chart the eastern approaches to Australia to make for safer passage for shipping.
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