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Acheron
Art
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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Australian troops for the Sudan: preparations for departure
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Depicts a page from The 'Australasian Sketcher' , an illustrated newspaper from 11 March 1885 showing various aspects of the Australian troops departing for the Sudan. Between March- June 1885, the NS...ART19874
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Easter Manoeuvres: the Nelson bombarding Queenscliff
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Maker: Unknown Alfred May & Alfred Martin Ebsworth Australasian Sketcher
This print was published in the Melbourne based, Australasian Sketcher, on 22 April 1882. There are five images compiled into this print. The top left image is captioned 'Queenscliff Night Visions' ...ART50167
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Gun-boat "Victoria" in the Government graving dock at Williamstown
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Maker: after Albert Charles Cooke Australasian Sketcher
The gun-boat "Victoria" in the Government graving dock at Williamstown being worked on. This image was published in The Australasian Sketcher, 25 August 1884, page 132ART19858
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HMCS Nelson in the Dock, Melbourne
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Newspaper supplement featuring the Alfred Graving Dock. This print was published in the Australasian Sketcher, Melbourne, 21 March 1874.ART50176
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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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Naval illumination in Hobson's Bay
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This print featured on the front page of the Australasian Sketcher on 23 October 1880. It shows vessels letting off fireworks, while crowds are gathered along the shoreline to watch. Hobson's Bay in...ART50168
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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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Nordenfelt gun in action: a sketch on the detached squadron
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Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
An nordenfelt gun on deck of a colonial ship is being operated by two sailors. One sailor is to pull the trigger and fire the gun, while the other is to operate a lever allowing the bullets to drop i...ART50170
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Our Defence Forces: The Militia, Artillery and Naval Brigade
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
The Australian Colonial Military forces were maintained from December 1788 until March 1901 when they were transferred to Commonwealth government control, after Federation. Initially, they were compos...ART96129
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Our torpedo defences
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
'Our torpedo defences': an illustrated page from 'The Australasian Sketcher', Melbourne, 8 June 1878, p. 37. The page comprises seven images titled as follows: Half pound disc gun cotton; Exterior and...ART19851
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Our torpedo defences
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This wood engraving was published in The Australasian Sketcher, 1 June 1885, page 89. It shows the work of the colonial Torpedo group in laying down mines, minefields and the torpedo defences at Quee...ART19849
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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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The defences of Port Phillip Head
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This scene, of coastal defences of Port Phillip heads, was printed in the Australasian Sketcher on 11 May 1878, page 25. In the foreground is the encampment, and gun positions, and in the background ...ART50194
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The Victorian Naval Reserve
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Maker: after Tom Carrington Australasian Sketcher
Training exercises were an integral part of preparing for battle. This wood engraving, published in the Australasian Sketcher, 8 April 1882 p.105, shows colonial troops of the Victorian Naval Reserve ...ART19865
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The volunteer encampment at Sunbury
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
A page from The Australasian Sketcher 14 April 1877 showing a general view of a military camp with tents in blocks at Sunbury. Mount Macedon and Camel's Hump in the background.ART19868
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The Volunteer encampment. Sketches of camp life.
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This wood engraving published in the Queensland edition of the Australasian Sketcher includes six vignettes of aspects of camp life at the Volunteer camp at Sunbury, Victoria, 12 May 1877.ART50178
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With the Sudan Contingent on board the Australasian
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Depicts a page from 'The Australasian Sketcher' of 8 April 1885 with seven small vignettes showing various activities of the NSW Contingent on board ship bound for the Sudan. Between March- June 1885...ART50164