Charles P. Eden's photograph collection of ships, shipyards and naval weaponry, ca.1880s-1950s

PXA 985/1-53

fonds

ca. 1950s (chiefly copy prints of a range of images from 1880s-1950s)

Graphic Materials, Photographs

421912

Photographs - 53 silver gelatin photoprints - 21 x 26 cm. or smaller

1. "Paluma" model in National War Memorial, Canberra
2."Gayundah" [model]
3. River Murray steamer "Adelaide", 1950
4. William Richard Randell standing by the boiler of the "Mary Ann"
5. Hydrographic survey ship "Paluma", anchored in Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, 1898
6. Fort Glanville in 1880; "HMCS Protector", lying off the Government Dockyard, Glanville, in 1884
7-8. [Unidentified dock area]
9-10. "Induna"
11. "Induna" looking forward
12. "Induna" looking aft
13. Melbourne Steamship Co. Ltd. works, store [and] dock
14. "Latrobe" [dredge], "William Andrews"
15. "Westralia"
16. "Wanganella" in Milford Sound
17. Colonial Marine (Great Britain) Naval Annual, p.264
18. "Albert" gunboat
19. "Avernus" torpedo boat
20. "Cerberus" turret ship
21. Arrival of the ironclad turret steamship "Cerberus"
22. "Childers" torpedo boat
23. The "Great Western", she crossed the Atlantic in April 1838
24. 2nd class torpedo boat "Mosquito" moored off Naval Stores, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, 1885
25. "SS Ormuz", Orient line, 1887
26-28. "Nelson" boys training ship
29. "Protector" cruiser
30. "Victoria" gunboat
31. The collision between H.M.S. "Victoria" and "Camperdown"
32. [Unidentified]
33. Flinders Naval Depot, Governor-General Lord Stonehaven. The ship's wheel is that of the old "Cerberus"
34. Inch QF Elswick gun, designed for separate loading
35. Firing a torpedo from the French gunboat "Condor", with gunpowder impulse
36. Torpedo launched from deck of destroyer
37. Torpedo launched from deck of destroyer, 1908
38. Torpedo launching tube
39. Diagram showing mechanism of a torpedo
40. Whitehead's Fish torpedo
41. McEvoy's duplex spar torpedo
42. Yarrow's torpedo boats; Yarrow's spar torpedo launch diagrams
43. 32 PR 32 CWT common ship carriage
44. Inch Vavasseur centre pivot mounting mark III
45. 6 PR Hotchkiss QF gun on automatic recoil mounting
46. 6 inch BL gun on Vavasseur CP mounting
47. HMS "Thunderer" 10 inch BL gun
48. 0-45 inch Gatling gun
49. 6 inch QF gun on centre pivot pedestal upper deck mounting
50. 7 inch ML gun on naval carriage, and slide Elswick plate compressor
51. Mechanism for breech loading ordnance
52. Powders
53. Thornicroft's boat apparatus for fish torpedoes

Original photoprints are before copy prints

Reproduction Restricted

These photographs are part of Charles P. Eden's research with Clem Lack into the history of the Australian colonial and merchant navies from 1830-1953. The research was intended for publication but a publisher could not be finalised, so the manuscript (ML MSS 3018) and photographs were then lodged with the Mitchell Library for the use of future researchers

Plate nos. inscribed on reverse, relating to intended publication of book
"Department of Railways, NSW, Photographs Section, Railway House" -- stamped on reverse (7-12)
"Kerr Bros., Melbourne" -- stamped on reverse (13)
"Huddart Parker Limited" -- stamped on reverse (15,16)