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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: Lady Penrhyn, 1789
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Friday, 6 April 2012. Lady Penrhyn, 1789. The interlinking of people and places around the British Empire in the late eighteenth century is perfectly illustrated by the First Fleet transport Lady Penrhyn. On board was Joseph Banks, then aged 25, who supplied an estimated £10,000 of his own money to equip the expedition. 29 April 1770, Cook made his first landing.
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: April 2012
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Tuesday, 17 April 2012. Waterwitch Column, Castle Gardens, Jamestown, May 2010. The Court operated from 1840 to 1865, and during this period a very large number of slaves were taken to the island aboard captured vessels. Rupert's Bay, Hospital of the Liberated Slaves Depot, March 2010. Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany recorded the first arrivals:.
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: August 2011
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Tuesday, 23 August 2011. St Matthew Island and two St. Helenas. 1519, St. Helena, Atlas Nautique du Monde, Biblioteheque National de France. The genesis of this post was the page in the Maps and Views section of Barry Weaver’s St Helena Virtual Library and Archive illustrated by a part of Jansson’s 1646 map “. Mar di Æthiopia Vulgo Oceanus Æthiopicus which. 65279;...
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: May 2011
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Sunday, 29 May 2011. Recent membership of the Friends of St Helena ( http:/ www.fosh.org.uk/index.php? Has given me access to back numbers of the society’s magazine “Wirebird”. James Fort, John Thornton, Wirebird Autumn 1992. Today’s Ladder with its 699 steps is a much later (1829) structure so what was this earlier ladder? Samuel Thornton, the Ladder, Detail.
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: April 2011
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Thursday, 28 April 2011. St James', East Window. St James' East Window, May 2010 Click on to Enlarge. The centre light of the east window “The Good Shepherd” was installed in 1874 and is flanked by two later painted glass windows depicting St James and St John. Wednesday, 27 April 2011. The Chappel in Town in bad repair and the Roof in danger of falling. The Chur...
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: June 2011
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Wednesday, 29 June 2011. Maskelyne, Mason and Dixon, 1761. 2011 is the 250. Anniversary of Nevil Maskylene’s visit to St. Helena to observe the June 1761 Transit of Venus and is also the bicentenary of his death. Charles. Mason and Jeremiah Dixon visited St Helena in October the same year returning from observing the Transit in South Africa. Van der Puyl shows him...
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: July 2012
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Tuesday, 3 July 2012. Fletcher Christian, 1785. T here is no portrait or drawing extant of Christian that was drawn from life. This picture is from Richard Hough “Captain Bligh and Mr Christian: The Men and The Mutiny, 1988” and is described as an artist’s impression based on contemporary descriptions. For almost six months the ship lay at anchor in Spithead but f...
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: Fletcher Christian, 1785
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Tuesday, 3 July 2012. Fletcher Christian, 1785. T here is no portrait or drawing extant of Christian that was drawn from life. This picture is from Richard Hough “Captain Bligh and Mr Christian: The Men and The Mutiny, 1988” and is described as an artist’s impression based on contemporary descriptions. For almost six months the ship lay at anchor in Spithead but f...
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West: Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Philatelic Licence
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Saint Helena 15.55 South 5.43 West. Explorers, prisoners and visitors, maps, photographs and heritage. Records of a unique and special island. Wednesday, 5 October 2011. Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Philatelic Licence. John Byron by Joshua Reynolds, 1759, National Maritime Museum Greenwich. Byron and Dolphin June 1764 to May 1766. With Dolphin were HMS Tamar captained by Patrick Mouat and the supply ship Florida. Tarting out on the Tamar before being promoted to First Lieutenant on the Dolphin. Florida re...