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Bold & lucky : Australia's colonial navy, 1824-1831 / Alan Powell.

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ISBN 9781922669612
Author Powell, Alan, 1936-2020 (author)
Title Bold & lucky : Australia's colonial navy, 1824-1831 / Alan Powell.
Other title Bold and lucky : Australia's colonial navy, 1824-1831
Publisher and/or associated date/s North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022.
©2022.
Description xi, 137 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm.
Contents 1. In the beginning 1788-1815 --2. The causes of change 1815-1825 --3. Expansion and Governor Brisbane 1821-1825 --4. Governor Darling and the British claim to the north and west of Australia --5. Disillusion and dissolution 1824-1829 --6. King George Sound and the last years of the Colonial Navy.
Summary A prequel to his ' World's end: British military outposts in the ring fence around Australia 1824-1849, this book by prize winning historian and keen sailor Alan Powell celebrates the small ship's of Australia's colonial Navy. Brigs, cutters, schooners and sloops were pressed into service in a reg-tag assembly of 'seagoing maids of all work', cramped and overloaded with provisions, building materials, livestock and even convicts. The crews of these 'doughty little craft'sailed with courage and often blind faith in their ultimate survival as they toiled through some of the world's most treacherous seas to deliver life-preserving supplies to the military outposts that ringed Australia in the early nineteenth century.
Subjects Australia. -- Royal Australian Navy -- History
Food security -- Australia
Naval auxiliary vessels
Call number 2022.239
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General Collection   . Available to Museum Staff .  
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