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Source: Brodie Collection, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, H99.220/645. |
 Sobraon.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. Print of painting by Lieut O F Pennington, DSC, late RNR. |
 The lighthouse and telegraph station, Cape Otway, Victoria, 1865.Source: State Library of Victoria, IMP25/11/65/173: b49017. |
 Port Phillip Heads, c 1874.Source: State Library of Victoria – H3576. Artist: S Prout; Engraver: Edward Paxman Brandard. |
 Hobson’s Bay from the Signal Staff, Williamstown, 1853.Source: Cyril Curtain of Williamstown. A similar image is available from the State Library of Victoria, H99.220/841. |
 Sobraon signal flags.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
 Sobraon wheel.
Source: Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, Garden Island, Sydney. Photograph by Christine Essil Stephenson. |
 Sobraon binnacle.
Source: Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, Garden Island, Sydney. Photograph by Christine Essil Stephenson. |
 Sobraon barometer.
Source: James Reginald Carrington Elmslie. |
 Sobraon bell.
Source: Royal Australian Navy – Naval Heritage Collection, HMAS Cerberus Museum, HMAS Cerberus, Victoria. |
 The clipper ship Sobraon, c1870.
Source: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, image: raw00153. Watercolour by Charles Collinson Rawson. |
 The upper deck – looking aft towards the poop, 1881.
Source: National Library of Australia, ‘After deck, Sobraon’. Drawing by Harold John Graham, 1881, nla.pic-an6442471. |
 The upper deck – looking forward, 1881.
Source: National Library of Australia, ‘The main deck, Sobraon.’ Drawing by Harold John Graham, 1881, nla.pic-an6442467. |
 The first class saloon.
Source: Brodie Collection, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, H99.220/305. |
 Plan of the first class accommodation.
Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, MLMSS7715. |
 Cape Otway in sight – preparing the anchors.
Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW – PXA 1176: Voyage of the Sobraon 1890-1891, Henry Martin Doyle Collection. |
 The Petty Officers.
Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW – PXA 1176: Voyage of the Sobraon 1890-1891, Henry Martin Doyle Collection. |
 Compass card.
Source: National Library of Australia, Nan Kivell Collection, PIC OBJ A40005186 LOC Pic Obj Drawer 16. |
 The elite passenger ship Sobraon.
Artist: Jack (John Charles Robert) Spurling, 1924. |
 Lt James Aberdour Elmslie, RNR, 1868.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
 The arrival of HRH Prince Alfred in Port Jackson, January 1868.
Source: State Library of New South Wales – Call Number V/86. Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News, 22 February 1868. Wood engraving by Frederick Garling. |
 The illumination of Sydney Harbour, January 1868.
Source: State Library of Victoria, Illustrated Sydney News, February-March 1868, engraving by M Jackson; drawing for the wood engraving by Alexander Christian Habbe. |
 The main bell of the Sobraon.
Source: The image is reproduced with the permission of the Lady Denman Maritime Museum, Huskisson, NSW. Photograph by Rob Tunstall. |
 Claret jug, 1869.
Source: James Leonard Gordon Elmslie. |
 The colonial clipper Sobraon towing up Sydney Harbour.
Source: State Library of Victoria, image reproduced in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 27 August 1938. Artist John Allcot, 1938. |
 Sobraon off Fort Denison, Sydney, c1870.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
 Sobraon at West Circular Quay, Sydney, 1871.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. Artist John Allcot. |
 Pitt St, Sydney, NSW – Sobraon at Circular Quay, February 1871.
Source: State Library of Victoria, Tyrrell’s, photographer. Acc. No.H21701. |
 Sandridge Railway Pier on a Sunday afternoon, 1874.
Source: State Library of Victoria, The Australasian Sketcher, Melbourne, 6 September 1874, No.19, vol.11, p.137. |
 Crew Agreement – Sobraon, 1874.
Source: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. |
 The sea pilots, Port Phillip Heads.
Source: Artist Lance Ross. |
 The Railway Pier, Williamstown.
Source: Brodie Collection, La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria. H99.220/440. |
 Shooting the sun.
Source: National Library of Australia, Harold John Graham, creator. Call No. PIC R9866/6. |
 Sobraon – the procession of the dead horse.
Source: National Library of Australia. Drawings by Harold John Graham Sobraon 1881: nla.pic-an6442256 |
 Sobraon – throwing the dead horse overboard.
Source: National Library of Australia. Drawings by Harold John Graham Sobraon 1881: nla.pic-an6442286. |
 Royal Sobraon Theatre – programs of on-board concerts.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
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 Sandridge Pier, Melbourne, 1875.Source: State Library of Victoria – H81.249/4. Charles Nettleton, photographer. |
 The Skipper, 1881.
Source: National Library of Australia, PIC R9866/9. Image drawn by Harold John Graham. |
 The Commander – James Aberdour Elmslie, c1880.
Source: James David Elmslie. |
 Chief Mate directing work aloft, Sobraon, 1890.
Source: State Library of New South Wales, Henry Martin Doyle collection. Call No: PXA 1176. Image 12. |
 Sobraon – in the doldrums.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
 Sobraon – in the tropics – a quiet afternoon on the poop.
Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW – PXA 1176. |
 Sobraon – passengers on the rear deckhouse.
Source: Peter Williams, Melbourne. |
 Sobraon rear deckhouse and poop.
Source: James Reginald Carrington Elmslie. |
 Sobraon – the foredeck.
Source: James Reginald Carrington Elmslie. |
 Sobraon – view forward from the poop.
Source: James Reginald Carrington Elmslie. |
 Captain James Aberdour Elmslie with his officers (including Chief Mate, Cpt Archibald Gordon Elmslie) and apprentices, Sobraon, c1890.
Source: Peter Williams, Melbourne. |
 Sobraon passing Sydney Heads, February 1891.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. An unidentified newspaper cutting dated between 1912 and 1927. |
 James Aberdour Elmslie’s telescope.
Source: Peter Anson Elmslie. |
 James Aberdour Elmslie, 1890.
Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW – PXA 1176, image 4. |
 NSS Sobraon – manning the yards.
Source: NSW State Records – NSS Sobraon, head on. Call No. 1-12604. |
 Sobraon in dry dock, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 1891.
Source: Image reproduced with the permission of Messrs Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow, publishers of ‘The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae Era of Sail’, by Cyril L Hume and Malcolm C Armstrong, 1987. |
 The 1891 modifications to the Sobraon.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
 NSS Sobraon.
Source: Ailsa Le Page (Elmslie). |
 NSS Sobraon and her boats in Sydney Harbour.
Source: NSW State Records, NSS Sobraon, 4481_a026_000001.jpg. |
 NSS Sobraon – trainees on parade.
Photograph by Mary Elizabeth Elmslie. |
 NSS Sobraon – trainees marching on deck, 1901.
Source: NSW State Records, – Naval cadets in marching formation on the NSS Sobraon, 4481_a026_000971.jpg. |
 The Sobraon in Mort’s Dock, Sydney, 1911.
Source: The Royal Australian Navy, Naval Heritage Collection, Spectacle Island, Sydney. |
 HMAS Tingira – The White Lady of Rose Bay.
Source: State Library of Victoria, photograph by Allan C Green, H91.108/197. |
 Divine service on HMAS Tingira, 1924.
Source: Royal Australian Navy, Naval Heritage Collection, Spectacle Island, Sydney. Image No. 9046. |
 Physical training on HMAS Tingira.
Source: Royal Australian Navy, Naval Heritage Collection, Spectacle Island, Sydney. |
 HMAS Tingira ceremonial life ring.
Source: Royal Australian Navy, Naval Heritage Collection, Spectacle Island, Sydney. |
 MHAS Tingira Royal Cypher.
Source: Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, Garden Island, Sydney. Photograph by Christine Essil Stephenson. |
 A Tingira boy writing home.
Source: Royal Australian Navy, Naval Heritage Collection, Spectacle Island, Sydney. |
 HMAS Tingira – under the shearing shed roof, c1922.
Source: Royal Australian Navy, Naval Heritage Collection, Spectacle Island, Sydney. |
 HMAS Tingira – naval cadets in school.
Photograph by Mary Elizabeth Elmslie. |
 The class of 1927 – Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria.
Source: Royal Australian Navy, Naval Heritage Collection, HMAS Cerberus Museum, Victoria. |
 HMAS Tingira – the last post.
Photograph by Mary Elizabeth Elmslie. |
 Preservation prospectus: Tingira, formerly Sobraon, Australian Nautical Exhibition and Museum Company Ltd, 1933.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
 The old Sobraon in Berry’s Bay.
Source: Royal Australian Navy – Naval Heritage Collection, Spectacle Island, Sydney. |
 The old Sobraon in Berry’s Bay.
Source: Royal Australian Navy – Naval Heritage Collection, Spectacle Island, Sydney. |
 Captain A G Elmslie’s inspection of the old Sobraon, 1932.
Source: Estate of Ronald Gordon Elmslie. |
 Captain A G Elmslie’s inspection of the old Sobraon, 1932.
Source: Estate of Ronald Gordon Elmslie. |
 Sobraon figurehead, New Entry School, HMAS Cerberus, Victoria, 1924.
Source: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT. |
 Sobraon bell mounted outside the Naval Chapel, Garden Island, Sydney.
Photograph by Helen Marion Gray. |
 The old Sobraon in her twilight years, c1935.
Source: National Library of Australia, PIC P838/307A LOC DRAWER Q43. Photographer: Edward William Searle. |
 Across Berry’s Bay to the Sobraon,1939.
Source: Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne. Painting by Sydney Long. |
 The breaking-up of the Sobraon in Berry’s Bay.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
 The last of the Sobraon – an historic photograph, 1941.
Source: The image is reproduced by permission of Messrs Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow, publishers of ‘The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae Era of Sail’, by Cyril L Hume and Malcolm C Armstrong, 1987. |
 The old Sobraon – three images: the hulk, the stern and the bow, 1938.
Source: The three Oswald Brett drawings of the Sobraon are reproduced with the permission of the painter and the Sydney Heritage Fleet – Bill Bourke, Curator, Maritime Records and Research Centre, with digital images prepared by Jeff Madsen. |
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 A Sobraon bell.Source: Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, Garden Island, Sydney. Photograph by Christine Essil Stephenson. |
 Sobraon – model of the hull and deck machinery by the ship’s carpenter.
Source: Malcolm Kenwyn Elmslie. |
 Chips.
Source: National Library of Australia, Chips, drawn by Harold John Graham, 1881. nla.pic-an6442449. |
 Sobraon – fully rigged model.
Source: James David Elmslie. Photographer: John Buchanan. |
