File:HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874 RMG PW8115.tiff

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English: HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874

Inscribed on back of drawing: “HMS ‘Basilisk’, Captain John Moresby 1871. 28th May [1874]. In Threshold Bay, New Guinea. Anchored off a delicious little cove of this large open Bay – The Rajah of Salwatti who is supreme ruler came off to visit us in a large prahu rowed by about 20 men”. See Moresby's "Discoveries & Surveys in New Guinea..." (John Murray, 1876), Chapter XVIII, for this incident.

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H.M.S. Basilisk Captn John Moresby, 24 May 1874. Threshold Bay New Guinea, Anchorea
Date 1874
date QS:P571,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions Mount: 182 mm x 261 mm
Notes Box Title: Fighting Ships 1843-1848.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/102942
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Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 8894
id number: PAF8115
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