Wooden paddle sloop launched in 1848 and broken up in 1882.
Basilisk HMS (Ship : 1848-1882)
Francis Hayter : Journal of voyage in HMS Basilisk
Date: Jan 1871-Jul 1873
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0626
Description: The journal begins with the departure of HMS Basilisk from England to Australia, via Madeira and the Cape of Good Hope. From Sydney, she visited New Zealand and Torres Strait. Then, after returning to Sydney, she went to Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, the northern outliers of Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, Rotuma, the Ellice Islands, some of the outliers of the Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Torres Strait and Papua. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index.
Atwick; Blenheim - Medical journals (ADM 101/ 6-8, 12)
Date: 1818-1851
From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-3189
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Journal of naval surgeons
Date: 1858-1875
From: Royal Naval Hospital Haslar : Surgeons' journals
Reference: Micro-MS-0646-3
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Remark books
Date: 1838-1843
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2437
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Surveyors' letters Box 1874 - Box 1876
Date: 1874-1876
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2334
Description: Comprises official (S Papers) and private correspondence Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Log books (ADM 51/ 3546, 3547, 3556)
Date: 1829-1845
From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5760
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Log books (ADM 51/ 3057, 3061, 306)
Date: 1828-1839
From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5743
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Log book
Date: 1871-1873
From: Hayter, Francis, 1843-1891 : Logbooks and farm diaries
Reference: Micro-MS-0244-2
Description: See details under Micro-MS-Coll-08-0626 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Log books (ADM 51/ 3556, 3559)
Date: 1839-1843
From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5761
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Codrington, Robert Henry, 1830-1922 : Journals and letters
Date: 1867-1882
By: Codrington, Robert Henry (Rev), 1830-1922
Reference: Micro-MS-0101
Description: Three journals, 1872-1875, and letters to his brother Tom reflect wide interests, including anthropology, linguistics, and natural history; describes life among Mota people of Santa Cruz, New Hebrides, and of Norfolk Island; travels to Auckland, Australia and in Melanesia; blackbirding; whaling; visits of `Basilisk' and `Sandfly'; visit of Lord Pembroke; death of Bishop Patteson Source of title - Transcribed Codrington was an Anglican missionary and headmaster of St Barnabas' College, Norfolk Island 1867-1887 Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Holograph (Positive microfilm) Finding Aids: Inventory available.