• Title
  Series 1: The Flying Squadron anchored between Middle and North Heads [Sydney Harbour], 13 December 1869 / drawing by Rosalie Ann Thorne
• Creator
  Rosalie Ann Thorne, 1850-1927
• Call number
  PXE 1742/Item 1
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  13 December 1869
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9623568
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil - 17.5 x 25.4 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The 1869-1870 cruise of the British Royal Navy's Flying Squadron visited South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Hawaii and South America (again). It was the first of its kind 'to visit all our distant shores' and its other aims were to show the British flag in the colonies and cement British naval power around the world. The Flying Squadron sailed into Sydney on the evening of 12 December 1869 and anchored
  between North and South Heads for the night in the following order: the Liverpool, the Scylla, the Phoebe, the Endymion, the Barrossa, and the Liffey as guardship. The squadron steamed up the harbour the following afternoon and anchored in Farm Cove for 13 days.
  
  References:
  Library correspondence file
  Australian National Maritime Museum, http://collections.anmm.gov.au/objects/167769 (accessed 3 January 2019)
  Arrival of the Flying Squadron. (1869, December 13). Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), p. 3., http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60895444 (accessed 3 January 2019)
• Scope and Content
  One pencil sketch depicting six ships of war of the British Royal Navy Flying Squadron on their arrival in Sydney in December 1869. The squadron is shown anchored between Middle and North Heads. In the foreground is a fenced parkland scene.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Captioned lower right: The Flying Squadron, anchored between Middle + North Heads. 13/12/69
• Subject
  Flying Squadron Cruise (1869 : London to Melbourne)
  Warships--Great Britain.
  
• Place
  Middle Head (Sydney Harbour, N.S.W.)
  North Head (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20036652

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