Author Results for Colin Jones
Note: Echoes of a Distant War
An exploration of the naval history of Sydney and New South Wales during the Napoleonic Wars from 1797 to 1814, touching on proposed conscription of convicts to fight in South American possessions, Matthew Flinders’ meeting with Nicolas Baudin, shipbuilding and traffic through Sydney Naval Yard, the operation of press gangs, privateering and whaling. Read More
Filed under: Napoleonic War | Indian Ocean | Pacific | Press Gangs
Subjects include: Harbours & Dockyards | Navies | Pirates, Corsairs & Privateers | Science & Exploration | Whaling & Fishing
At War with the Navy
The small ships taken up by the Australian navy were of small account to the navy but of far more importance to their owners. These case studies reveal the local implications of such dealings. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Leisure & Small Craft
Note: At War with the Navy
Small civilian craft were taken up by the Australian navy during the Second World War, and this account details the experiences of some of them. Read More
Filed under: WW2 | Pacific
Subjects include: Leisure & Small Craft
Note: The Sale Steamboat Company Ltd, Sale, Victoria 1890-1928
This examines the economics of operating a steamboat company to an inland town on the Australian coast. Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Pacific | Internal Waterways
Subjects include: Merchant Marines | Whaling & Fishing
Note: The Steamboats of Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
The use of little steamboats on Lake Wendouree is recounted, with an account of their numbers. Read More
Filed under: Popular Topics | Other (Nineteenth C) | Internal Waterways
Subjects include: Leisure & Small Craft
Note: The Crimean War in Japan
A ‘small incident’ of the Crimean War took place in the Pacific Ocean when a Russian frigate was wrecked off Shimoda. Read More
Filed under: Crimean War | Pacific
Subjects include: Navies | Strategy & Diplomacy
Note: The Death of Marcus McCausland
The events which lead to the death of this young officer in Zanzibar are detailed. Read More
Filed under: Other (Eighteenth C) | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea
Note: ‘Disarmed and Disappointed’? The Experience of the Armstrong Breech-loading Guns, 1863-4
The Navy withdrew its Armstrong breech-loading rifled ordnance from service, but the accident rate which was blamed has been re-examined. Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Weapons
The Purchase of the Australian Colonial Gunboats
In 1882 the government of the British colony of Victoria in Australia decided to invest in new gunboats and torpedo boats for its navy, a decision that was the catalyst for the creation of naval forces in other colonies. The vessels were to be of unusual design, and unlike contemporary Royal Naval vessels. The nature […] Read More
Filed under: Nineteenth Century
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design
The Voyage of the Colonial Ship Victoria
A detailed account of the RAN steamship, Victoria in commission between 1856 and 1882 when she was sold out of service. She was built in Pembroke, UK as a “contemporary sloop of war”. She participated in the war against the Maoris in New Zealand. A year later, in 1861 with accompanying vessels, she was sent […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea | Navies | Science & Exploration