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The Clipper Ship, 'Guiding Star' .
Etching, The London Illustrated News, October 1, 1853. The Guiding Star was chartered for the gold regions of Australia.
The Clipper Ship, 'Red Jacket' .
Lithograph, Published by Currier & Ives, New York, USA, c1854,
The lithograph shows the ship "Red Jacket" surrounded by ice off Cape Horn on her passage from Australia to Liverpool. The image is enhanced with a hand coloured U.S. flag, as well as coloured sails, deck and water.
The Schomberg Galop
Sheet music with chromolithographic cover, 3 leaves (six pages), Charles D'albert, c. 1855.
A chromolithograph of the wooden clipper ship, Schomberg, depicted broadside with a port side view. The blue sky and green ocean are handcoloured .
The Schomberg was built in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1855 as a response to the American built clippers which had come to dominate passengers transportation to Australia between 1849 and 1855. The sheet music was written by Charles D'albert for the launching of the wooden clipper ship. The score was dedicated to Mrs. Charles Schomberg, the wife of captain Charles Schomberg R.N., the head of the emigration inspection service for the port of Liverpool. The Schomberg was owned by the Black Ball line and under the command of Captain James Nichol "Bully" Forbes, when he ran the vessel ashore on the western coast of Victoria towards the end of her maiden voyage.
The new Australian clipper - "Blue Jacket.
Monochrome engraving on newspaper. Attributed to C. W. Sheeres, Publisher unknown, January 1, 1859.
This engraving depicts a broadside view of the vessel under sail against a city skyline. Other small boats are shwon in the foreground and to the right of the Blue Jacket.
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