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Title
Captain Luce and the officers of H.M.S. Esk, 1867 / photographer Batchelder, Melbourne
Creator
Batchelder & Co.
Call number
SPG/63
Level of description
fonds
Date

1867
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs
Reference code
903961
Physical Description
1 photographic print - 10.5 x 6.3 cm - carte de visite, in paper mount
1 print - approximately 10.5 x 6 cm - clipping
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

HMS Esk was a 20-gun Highflyer-class screw corvette launched on 12 June 1854 from J. Scott Russell & Co., Millwall.[2] She saw action in the Crimean War, the Second Opium War and the Tauranga Campaign in New Zealand, and was broken up at Portsmouth in 1870.

Reference:
Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/ (accessed September 14, 2010)
Scope and Content
Carte has twenty four small oval images, one of the ship and 23 of the officers, arranged in a diamond-shaped pattern. A newspaper cutting is attached to the reverse describing HMS Esk leaving the Australian Station
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
General note

Transferred from SPG/Esk, H.M.S. - Crew (BM), September 2010
Name
Esk (Ship)
Subject
Warships--Australia.
Adult Males
Topic
naval officers
steam corvettes

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