View of a sea serpent...
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April 14, 1849
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 14, 1849
* The sea serpent
* Prints
The back page has a 4 by 6 inch engraving captioned: "Supposed Appearance Of The Great Sea-Serpent, From H.M.S. 'Plumper,' Sketched By An Officer On Board."
Includes an account of "The Great Sea Serpent" written by the naval officer who witnessed the appearance of the sea serpent and provided the sketch.
Other topics with prints and text throughout. 14 pages.
wikipedia notes: HMS Plumper was a screw surveying ship in the Royal Navy. The ship was launched on April 5, 1848 at the Portsmouth Dockyard. [1] Commanded by Captain George Henry Richards between 1857 and 1860, HMS Plumper was used to survey the coast of British Columbia. A painting of the ship, showing it moored in Port Harvey, Johnstone Strait, done by J.A. Startin in the 1860s, is in the British Columbia Archives; it shows three masts and one funnel. An image of the ship appears on the coat-of-arms of the town of Sidney on southern Vancouver Island.
Francis Brockton was the ship's engineer under Captain Richards when, in 1859, Brockton found a vein of coal in the Vancouver area. After the discovery, which Richards reported to Governor James Douglas, Richards named the area of the find Coal Harbour and named Brockton Point, at the east end of what is now Stanley Park in Vancouver, after Francis Brockton.
HMS Plumper, carrying 21 guns and a company of Royal Marines, was involved in the Pig War crisis between the United States and Britain in 1859; along with HMS Tribune, which was commanded by Captain Geoffrey Hornby, Plumper was dispatched by Governor James Douglas to prevent American soldiers from erecting fortifications on San Juan Island and bringing in reinforcements.
* The sea serpent
* Prints
The back page has a 4 by 6 inch engraving captioned: "Supposed Appearance Of The Great Sea-Serpent, From H.M.S. 'Plumper,' Sketched By An Officer On Board."
Includes an account of "The Great Sea Serpent" written by the naval officer who witnessed the appearance of the sea serpent and provided the sketch.
Other topics with prints and text throughout. 14 pages.
wikipedia notes: HMS Plumper was a screw surveying ship in the Royal Navy. The ship was launched on April 5, 1848 at the Portsmouth Dockyard. [1] Commanded by Captain George Henry Richards between 1857 and 1860, HMS Plumper was used to survey the coast of British Columbia. A painting of the ship, showing it moored in Port Harvey, Johnstone Strait, done by J.A. Startin in the 1860s, is in the British Columbia Archives; it shows three masts and one funnel. An image of the ship appears on the coat-of-arms of the town of Sidney on southern Vancouver Island.
Francis Brockton was the ship's engineer under Captain Richards when, in 1859, Brockton found a vein of coal in the Vancouver area. After the discovery, which Richards reported to Governor James Douglas, Richards named the area of the find Coal Harbour and named Brockton Point, at the east end of what is now Stanley Park in Vancouver, after Francis Brockton.
HMS Plumper, carrying 21 guns and a company of Royal Marines, was involved in the Pig War crisis between the United States and Britain in 1859; along with HMS Tribune, which was commanded by Captain Geoffrey Hornby, Plumper was dispatched by Governor James Douglas to prevent American soldiers from erecting fortifications on San Juan Island and bringing in reinforcements.
Category: Pre-Civil War
