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Acheron
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Section through 19th Century Acheron torpedo boat HMCS Acheron. The top image shows the deck plan of HMCS Acheron and the lower image shows the ship underway at sea. The torpedo spar was fitted at t...ART19864
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Champion riflemen of New South Wales and Victoria
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Maker: after Samuel Calvert The Australian News
Group of champion riflemen from New South and who competed in the Inter-Colonial Small Bore competitions, l-r: M'Naughton, M'Ewan, M'Cartney, (all sic), Major Hall, Douglas, Middlemiss, Lieutenant-Col...ART19867
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Embarkation of the New South Wales troops for the Sudan
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton The Illustrated Australian News
Depicts men of the NSW Contingent (infantry and artillery) boarding a ship (either SS Iberia or SS Australasian) to sail to Sudan with a crowd of civilians on wharf to see them off, after the artist G...ART19881
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HMCS Protector
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Her Majesty's Colonial Ship HMCS Protector became the longest serving ship in Australia (60 years), served in in the Boxer Rebellion, the First World War, as a tender at, and was requisitioned by the ...ART19863
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HMS Royal Arthur
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Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Pre Federation, pre-1901 and not BA, NZ, SU or CH; 1898; HMS Royal Arthur; vessles, fishing vessles.ART90990
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HMS Wallaroo and Royal Arthur
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Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Depicts two vessels from the Royal Navy Auxiliary Squadron, HMS Wallaroo and HMS Royal Arthur. HMS Wallaroo (originally laid down as HMS Persian) was a third class cruiser, and HMS Royal Arthur, a fir...ART20004
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Menagerie race at the naval and military sports
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Maker: after Samuel Calvert Illustrated Australian News
Military volunteers with an assortment of animals at the start of the menagerie Race. The starter has a smoking pistol in his hand. This is an illustration from the Illustrated Australian News, 7 Nove...ART50183
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Nine-inch gun, Queenscliff battery
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
gun emplacement; nine-inch Armstrong Rifle Muzzle Loading gun, mounted on an iron garrison carriage, at Fort, guarding the entrance to at The Rip, in the backgroundART19853
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Nordenfeldt Gun Battery
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
machine gun; series of drawings illustrating the enfeldt machine gun, top, l-r: half limber to transport ammunition, etc, enfeldt machine gun with ten barrels (ammunition hopper not in place), portrai...ART19854
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Our colonial defences: a company of the mounted rifles manoeuvring in Victoria
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Maker: Dadd, Frank
Depicts the company of VMR (Victorian Mounted Rifles) riding through bushland during training. It has been alleged that this work was based on a photograph sent to the Graphic by Lieutenant Colonel To...ART19712
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Queenscliff Easter encampment (Target practice with the heavy guns)
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Maker: after Samuel Begg Illustrated Australian News
Queenscliff in Victoria was one of the main bases for artillery training for the Victorian colony. This work shows volunteers in the garrison artillery training with a rifled muzzle loading gun.ART19850
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Raising the 25-ton gun, Middle Harbour fortifications, Sydney
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
A group of men from the New South Wales Artillery pulling on a rope winch to lift a 25 ton gun onto a barge in Middle Harbour, Sydney. The gun was to be placed in defensive fortifications. There is a ...ART19848
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Saluting the squadron on board the Nelson; verso: page of newspaper text from 'The Australaisan Sketcher'
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This engraving is by an unknown artist after George Ashton. It shows a scene published in 'The Australasian Sketcher', Melbourne, 4 May 1885, depicting a gun crew on the frigate HMS 'Nelson' firing a ...ART50175
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1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry
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Maker: Bunnett, Henry
1880s; uniforms, rifle, horse; 1st Battalion (West ) n Infantry; foreground: marching soldier with rifle, background: mounted officer and Bugler on foot. Infantry uniforms were based on British models...ART19501
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The Cerberus Turret-Ship
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Maker: Unknown Illustrated London News
HMVS Cerberus (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship) was a breastwork monitor that served in the Victorian Naval Forces, the Commonwealth Naval Forces (CNF), and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1871 a...ART19859
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The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Captain Cook, Hyde Park, Sydney
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Maker: Montague Scott, J Illustrated Sydney News
Thomas Woolner's statue of Captain Cook is unveiled in Hyde Park, Sydney. The ceremony was attended by some thirty thousand spectators, and included a parade by men of the Royal Navy, Naval Brigade an...ART19819
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The miner laying torpedoes
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Maker: Unknown Illustrated Australian News
Port Philip Bay; merchant vessel, launch; n Colonial Navy; scene published in the Illustrated Australian depicting the inshore minelayer Miner at sea in Port Philip Bay, a torpedo is being lowered ove...ART50172
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The opening of Prince's bridge in Melbourne
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Maker: Ham, Thomas
Depicts the 1850 opening ceremony of the Prince's Bridge over the Yarra River by the Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe (or Latrobe) as soldiers fire a salute. There is a large crowd of spec...ART19822
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The Queen's Review: Aldershot, 26 June 1899
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Maker: Maud, W T
1899; ceremonies; unidentified battery of Royal Horse Artillery galloping past Queen 's carriage during the Queen's Review at, New South Wales Lancers also took part in this reviewART19554
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The Queen's Review: Aldershot, 26 June 1899
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Maker: Maud, W T
Depicts a large number of civilians watching the Royal Horse Artillery passing the Queen 's carriage during the Queen's Review at Aldershot in the late 19th century. The New South Wales Lancers also t...ART19555