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From Lubbock's "Colonial Clippers"

(LA) LIVERPOOL & AUSTRALIAN
NAVIGATION CO.
(GIBBS, BRIGHT & CO.)

            STEAM AUXILIARIES

Great Britain- iscs 1f6bkn (yards on mast
  No. 2) 3,448g 1843 Bristol
           (reduced to 5m 1846, 4m 1852, and 3m 1853;
& funnel changes 2f 1853 and 1f 1853

Original Rig – 1f6mbkn                       nmm coloured lithograph
(Launch at Bristol in 1843)
PAD6714
nmm coloured lithograph uw
                                                              by G. Dawes (engraver )
                                                              PAD6715
   slq photo of painting uw
by Dickson Gregory
Image No.131502

            Voyages to Australia 1852-1874)

(a) First Voyage 1852, with 2f4bk nmm watercolour uw
                       (yards on masts Nos. 2 and 3)    by W.Ch (1852)
                                                               PAD6722
                      nmm coloured lithograph uw
                                                                           by J.McGahey 9engraver)
W. Cleat (artist)
                                                                           PAI6614
  slv postcard engraving
   (Sydney Cove 1852)
                                                                           Image No. pc000899
                                                              nmm coloured lithograph uw
   by T.G Dutton (engraver)
  .S. Walters (artist)
(Apr. 1852)
   PAH8914
  nmm graphite uw
   by S. Walters
   PAD8988
                          slv wood engraving
                                                                         (Melbourne 1852)
                         Image No. mp005879

        (b) Voyages 1854 - 1874 with 1f3s   sln oil painting uw
                              (yards on3 masts)        (leaving Liverpool for
Australia, 1860s)
                                      Digital Order No. a928396
nmm coloured lithograph uw
                                                               by J.R. Isaac (artist and
engraver)
                              PAD6716
slv watercolour uw
                      by Dickson.Gregory
                                                              Image No. b28562
                                         slv photo am
                                                                          Image No. b37426
slv photo am
Image No. a23978
slv photo of painting uw
Image No. bs000591
nla pen and ink drawing
by G.G. McCrae
nla.pic-an6326825

            Royal Charter – iscs 1f 3s 2132gt 1855 slv photo uw
                Sandycroft (near Chester)        No. bs001560
     slq copy print (b&w) uw
                          Image No. 164893
                   slv wood engraving
(departure from
Melbourne 1859)
                              Image No. mp005885
                       nmm graphite uw
                              PAD6751
nmm coloured lithograph
(loss of Royal Charter)
PAH0291
Colour plate of watercolour
by Dickson Gregory in his
           "Australian Steamships
  Past and Present", P.152
(The Richards Press Ltd.,
  London 1928)

Ship details of Great Britain from Ewan Corlett's "The Iron Ship: The Story of
  Brunel's S.S. Great Britain" (Conway Maritime Press Ltd., London, revised
edition 1990). Ship details of Royal Charter from John M. Maber's "North
Star to Southern Cross" (T.Stephenson & Sons Ltd., Prescot, Lancs 1967)

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