b"56353 to a two-decker and fitted with an engine361TROUGHTON & SIMMS, London. Tripleof 2,102 horsepower for a speed of 10.5An album (dilapidated) containing extension brass wand timber telescopeknots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph). pressed/dried examples of seaweeds and inscribed Presented at the PublicIt was in this state that in 1865, Nelsonshoreline plants, circa 1880s - 1900s.Examination on the 12th June 1851 towas given to the colony of Victoria as aPastedown to inside front cover:Gentleman Cadet Henry R. Thuillier bytraining ship, and she was finally outfittedSeaweeds from Victorian Shores the Honble Court of Directors of the Eastand rigged for 42,000 and sailed forGathered fifty years or more.India Company as a mark of the CourtsAustralia in October 1867, arriving inWeeds! They call us, from the seaapprobation of his general good conductFebruary 1868. She was the first shipBut beautiful flowers, surely, are we.while at the Military College, to dock in the newly constructed AlfredFern from Maori Hill Gulley,78cm long (extended) Graving Dock. Her armament in 1874 wasWaterfalls, Dunedin, N.Z.$500700 listed as two 7-in RML, twenty 64 lb guns,Gathered 1888.twenty 32 lb guns and six 12 lb howitzers. $150250 354 During 18791882, Nelson was further Negretti and Zambra bearing compass cut down to a single deck and her rig362in cedar box with brass fittings, reduced to the main mast only, theA Georgian ships carafe and a spherical stamped Negretti & Zambra, London,ship being reclassified as a frigate. Hercarafe, 18th/19th century,C.M.O. 20, old armament was partly replaced by23 and 28cm high (2)the box 18cm high, 23.5cm wide,modern breech-loaders. She was laid$120200 21.5cm deep. up at Willamstown in 1891, her boilers $200250being removed in 1893. On 28 April 1898 she was put up for auction and sold to363Bernard Einerson of Sydney for 2,400. Two giant clam shells, 20th century,355 In 1908 Nelson was sold to the Union25cm wide (2)A Georgian pocket apple corer, Steamship Co. of New Zealand, and$80120 turned whalebone, 18th century, towed from Sydney to Beauty Point on 12.5cm high the Tamar River, Tasmania, for use as a364$250350coal storage hulk. She later founderedSailors sweetheart shell display, there with 1,400 tons of coal on board19th century,356 and remained submerged for forty days14.5cm high, 17cm wide, 7cm deepuntil finally refloated. In January 1915 she$120200 HMS NELSON 1814 - 1930s: was towed to Hobart for further service THE LIFE OF A SHIP as a coal hulk, until sold in August 1920 An original sepia albumen print to Mr. H Gray for 500 and towed an up365of HMS Nelson circa 1879, river to Shag Bay for gradual breaking up,A vintage pond yacht on stand,mounted on card and framed in timberswork continuing into the 1930s, althoughred pine and steel, circa 1920s,from the cabin of this ship, some of her timbers still survive,56cm high overall14.5 x 21cm (image); 34.5 x 41cm (frame) including the present timber frame. $150250 with hand-written text below. $600800 HMS Nelson was a 126-gun ship of366the Royal Navy, launched on 4 July357 A giant clam shell, North Queensland 1814 at Woolwich Dockyard, but thenA 19th century ships figurehead angelorigin, early 20th century,laid up incomplete at Portsmouth untilfigure, carved timber with later gold33cm wide1854, when work began with a viewpainted finish, $60100 to commissioning her for service in the120cm high, 65cm wideCrimean War, but this ended before much work had been completed, and the ship$3,0005,000367returned to reserve. She was convertedA Colonial blanket box, pine with original into a screw ship in 1860, being cut down358 simulated grain finish, South Australian BRITANNIA Winning First Place N.T.Y.C.origin, 19th century,May 17th 95, addressed on the lid Mrs. Leonard, black and white photograph captioned onPassenger To Melbourne, For Ship mount Britannia 1895, Hotspur,framed 52 x 43cm overall. 30cm high, 68cm wide, 40cm deepPROVENANCE $300500 From the Isle of Wight Hotel, England$150250368HMS Renown silver plated cup bearing the 359 ship's crest, stamped SMPC (Sydney) on A pond yacht boat hull, carved woodbase, height 7cm, weight 240gr.with blue and black painted finish,[HMS Renown transported Edward, 19th/20th century, Prince of Wales to Australia in 1920 for 52cm long his highly successful Royal Tour and also $150250conveyed the Duke & Duchess of York for their 1927 Royal Tour.]360 $100150 A taxidermied baby saltwater crocodile,369early 20th century,106cm long Course & Speed Calculator MK.IIA$250350in wooden case, circa 1928,the case 28.5cm wide$150250 353 (Detail)"