Voyage of the Sobraon, 1890-1891 / Henry Martin Doyle

PXA 1176

fonds

1890-1891

Graphic Materials, Photographs

861309

1 album (67 photographs on 47 pages) - 31.5 x 29 cm

From the Doyle Estate, July 1929

1. Sobraon on full sails in the doldrums
2. Sobraon at anchor Table Bay. The Kloof
3. Sobraon in dead calm off The Crozets
4. 1890 – Mr. Borstall, Capt. Elmslie
5. Archie Elmslie, Chief Officer, Sobraon
6. Sobraon Officers – Capt. Elmslie, his Surgeon – Dr. Martin Doyle, his Officers and apprentices
7. Chief Mate, A. G. Elmslie 2nd and 3rd Mates and apprentices
8. Petty Officers “Chips”, “Bosun”, “Sails” and Engineer
9. Cooks and stewards
10. A Quartermaster at the wheel
11. Sailors work at sea overhauling gear and sending up sails.
12. Chief Mate ordering work afloat
13. In the Tropics – sending down sails
14. Working aloft in the Tropics – changing sail
15. Washing decks
16. All hands aloft in a gale of wind. Reefed foresail. Furling the mainsail
17. The Doctor and his patients. Group of Saloon passengers
18. The Doctor and his patients. Group of Saloon passengers. The photographer (F. D. Green) included
19. A group of Second Class passengers
20. The ship’s baby
21. On the Poop signalling a homeward bounder in the North East Trades
22. The Watch below. The apprentices’ quarters
23. Caught aloft. A passenger in the Mizen top fined grog for all hands
24. In the Tropics. “Sails” working passengers loafing
25. In the Tropics. Sunday afternoon “sailors yarns”
26. In the Tropics. Artists “catching” a wonderful sunset
27. In the Tropics. A game of whist
28. Down near Tristsan D’Acunha The Owl Club taking the fresh air
29. In South East Trades. Cricket on deck. S.P. Jones (Sammy) at the Wicket
30. A Fancy Dress Ball Charlotte Corday slays Marat
31. The Three Graces
32. Sketching on the Poop. Ships passing
33. Programme of Stewards Concert
34. In the South Atlantic. First Albatross caught. Doctor’s demonstration to passengers how to catch and land an albatross
35. In the albatross seas a morning’s catch. Great Wandering Albatross. A Sooty Albatross
36. Parkins, the Taxidermist, with a Sooty Albatross
37. Taxidermists at work
38. Taxidermists
39. Parkins posing for a photograph. The leg pullers also posing
40. An albatross hunter’s caboose
41. The same
42. The Butcher’s bird
43. My first albatross alone – “Alone I did it”
44. We go halves in the game
45. Cape Otway in sight. Getting out the anchors
46. Homeward bound. Table Mountain from Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
47. The Sobraon at anchor in Table Bay off Cape Town, Table Mountain
48. Cape Town, South Africa, at the foot of Table Mountain
49. Cape Town 1890. Table Mountain and The Kloof in the background
50. Malay woman, Cape Town, wearing costume of old Dutch mistress. The Malays are descendants of the old Dutch slaves
51. Hottentot showing scar
52. Hottentot bride
53. Jamestown, Saint Helena, showing Anchorage
54. Jamestown, Saint Helena. Over the hill at the end of the valley, was the part of the Island where Napoleon lived
55. Sobraon at anchor off Jamestown, Saint Helena
56. Jacob’s ladder, Saint Helena from Jamestown to signal station
57. Napoleon’s burial place, Saint Helena
58. Night flowering cacti, Saint Helena
59. 1890. Rosemary Hall, St.Helena. Zulu King Dinzulu and Zulu chiefs in exile
60. 1935 Musee de Versailles – Bonaparte 1st Consul, par Isabey
61. Aberdeen White Star S.S. Salamis. Dr. H. Martin Doyle Surgeon 1902
62. Inugana, brother of Cetewayo. Paul Mutikele, Udoktele (Native Doctor)
63. Undoboko, Cetewayo’s brother. Dinzulu, Cetawayo’s son and King of the Zulus
64. Prince Dinusulu
65. A Zulu Chief’s daughter
66. A Bushwoman - from life near Amajuba Mountain
67. No.2 Zulu beauty (town girl) [printed on photo.]. “A ten cow maiden" [handwritten on photo.]

Transferred from Mitchell Library Printed Books Collection, Q656.5/D, May 2009