| Title: |
The HMS Success hove down to the Cruizer, ca.1829-1830 |
| Imprint: |
New South Wales, 1830 |
| Notes: |
Digitised by the State Library of NSW, found in: [Collection of views predominantly of Sydney, Liverpool, and the Sunda Straits, and portraits, ca 1807, 1829-1847, 1887] / owned by A.W.F. Fuller.Note on base of picture reads 'The Success hove down to the Cruizer'. |
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| Summary: |
The HMS Success was the ship in which Captain James Stirling first sailed to Western Australia to explore sites for a new colony in 1827. In 1829 it returned to begin settlement of the Swan River Colony, this time sailing under Captain William Jervoise. It ran aground on a sandbank in Cockburn Sound, which was later named Success Bank. This is a picture by an artist (possibly J. Whatman) of the Success undergoing repairs after this incident. The repairs were made in strong West Australian jarrah, one of the first times this timber had been used by Europeans for shipbuilding. [LH.1271] |
| Subject: |
HMS SuccessCockburn Region (W.A.) -- Success |