• Title
  Oswald W.B. Brierly - H.M.S. Rattlesnake. Torres Straits, New Guinea, Louisiades &c., Apr. - Sep. 1848
• Call number
  A 505
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1845-1848
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Drawings
• Reference code
  404883
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : MAV/FM4/2486 (A 505)
  
• Physical Description
  Textual Records - (manuscript) 1 volume - 0.03 Meters
  Drawings
  
• Scope and Content
  [front of volume]
  13 Sep. 1848; H.M.S. Rattlesnake [at] Sherrards Island
  Diagrams for shewing [i.e. showing] sail ship under at any particular time, Apr. 1848
  Remarks on Rapiers System generally [with illustrated legend]
  29 Apr. - 14 Sep. 1848; Journal entries.
  Journey from Port Jackson to Torres Strait, passing Rockingham Bay, Frankland Isles, High Peak Island, Trinity Bay, Low Islands, Hope Islands, Three Islands, Cape Bedford, Lizard Island, and Night Island. Includes destinations visited, weather conditions, longitude and latitude, journey's progress and daily activities, objects found, native customs (drawings of ornaments, canoes, dwellings), and charts sunrise and sunset.
  [reverse of volume]
  Sketch of H.M.S. Rattlesnake leaving Night Island, Sep. 1848
  Recipe for treatment of burns
  Jul., Aug, and Sep. 1848; Rattlesnake at Night Island, Pipon Island, and Cape Melville; notes and sketches of the ship's rigging, tacking, and anchor
• General note
  
  Volume contains material composed mainly in 1848 and contains numerous ink sketches of sailing ships, landscapes, seascapes, and people.
  The volume is reversible, as it has been used from the front and back.
  In Sep. 1936, the journal was bound into new covers.
  D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
  "D.S. Mitchell" signature on reverse of p.i.
  Digital order no:a128207
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from inscription on label of original cover
  Most drawings are titled and dated
• Name
  Rattlesnake (Ship)
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Islands--Queensland.
  Sailing.
  Torres Strait Islanders--Material culture.
  Torres Strait Islanders--Social life and customs.
  Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)--Description and travel
  
• Topic
  canoes
  houses
  manufactured objects
  rigging (ships)
  sails
  ships
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3192837

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