Stokes, John Lort, Admiral, 1812-1885
Watercolours relating to natural history includes a Kiwi (13.25" x 8"); HMS ACHERON sounding from near Stephens Island, New Zealand, 61 fms (10.5" x 7.5"); marine gastropod with young (10.5" x 8.5"); bivalve mollusc (8.5" x 6") initialled J.W.H; dried fern, in paper with 'Fern from Captain Wakefield's...', Wairau Plain, April '51' in Stokes's hand, Mrs Natusch notes the 'fern exhibit is very interesting. Captain Arthur Wakefield was killed in the Wairau 'massacre' (a confrontation over land between the New Zealand Company and Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeata) in the year 1844. The fern looks like Pteridium esculentum: New Zealand bracken.'
Administrative / biographical background
Views, sketches and charts relating to the voyage of HMS ACHERON, surveying the coasts of New Zealand.
Administrative / biographical background
Views, sketches and charts relating to the voyage of HMS ACHERON, surveying the coasts of New Zealand.
Record Details
| Item reference: | STK/73 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1860-1862-12-31; 1860-1862 1860-01-01 - 1862-12-31 |
| Creator: | Stokes, John Lort |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund. |
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- Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 25 Feb-31 Dec 1837 (Manuscript) (STK/1)
- Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Austalian Coast and Woolwich kept by Mate L R Fitzmaurice. Includes three loose folded maps of coastlines on tracing paper (fragile). (Manuscript) (STK/2)
- Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 1 August 1839-6 June 1840 (Manuscript) (STK/3)
- Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 7 June 1840-15 March 1841 (Manuscript) (STK/4)
- Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 25 Mar-29 Dec 1841 (Manuscript) (STK/5)
- Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 30 Dec 1841-31 Dec 1842 (Manuscript) (STK/6)
- Logbook of HMS BEAGLE, Woolwich, Swan River, New south Wales, Cape of Good Hope, Australian Coast and Woolwich, 1 January-14 Oct 1843 (Manuscript) (STK/7)
- Logbook of HMS ACHERON, surveying the New Zealand Coast, 15 June 1848-25 July 1849; 25 Aug-3 September 1849, and 14-18 January 1850 (Manuscript) (STK/8)
- Logbook of HMS HAVANNAH, Sydney to Spithead via Straits of Magnellan, 14 Aug-4 Dec 1851 (Manuscript) (STK/9)
- Journal of the South West Coast of England survey, 28 May 1859-13 April 1863, of hired vessels employed until Oct 1860 then ROSE (Manuscript) (STK/10)
- Out-letterbook of BEAGLE, 3 April 1841-12 Oct 1843 (Manuscript) (STK/11)
- Out-letterbook of ACHERON, official and private, 23 August 1848-18 September 1849. Includes a quill. (Manuscript) (STK/12)
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