Havannah HMS (Ship)

Date: 1829-1856

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2323

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 10 Feb 1851-22 Mar 1855

By: Card, Charles James, active 1846-1855

Reference: MSX-5604

Description: In closely-written pages, Card describes in detail his voyage on HMS `Fantome' to Sydney, where he transhipped to the `Havannah' on 24 Nov 1851. He describes his voyages to and around New Zealand, to Fiji and Tonga, before returning to Australia and New Zealand in November 1853, where his captain died. He writes of his life and loves in Sydney and Brisbane from 1854 to Mar 1855, when he is reposted to England. Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Title on spine: Charles James Card Voyage of H.M.S. Havannah 1851-1855 Card, who had been formerly on HMS `Rattlesnake', was in Portsmouth, England, when he was appointed in Feb 1851 as Assistant Paymaster to HMS `Havannah', then in Australian waters. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (176 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Clive Farahar and Sophie Dupre, Caine, Wiltshire, England, Mar 2000

Date: 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: B-089-002

Description: A copy by W A McCleverty of R A Oliver's view of Dillon's Bay. Shows H. M. S. Fly or H M S Havannah in the foreground of a bay with a Vanuatuan canoe approaching with two men on board. A smaller European ship, Bishop Selwyn's yacht Undine is in the background. Palm trees fringe the shore at the base of cliffs and hills Signed: W.A. McC. A copy by W. A. McCleverty of R. A. Oliver's watercolour 'H. M. S. Fly at Erromango'. The watercolour is in a private collection, and there is another watercolour copy at the Mitchell Library, Sydney, with title The Undine yacht and H M S Havannah H M S Fly and H M S Havannah were at Erromanga together in 1851, along with Selwyn and his yacht Undine. At least one version of this watercolour identifies the larger vessel as H M S Havannah, not as H M S Fly Other Titles - McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897. Dillon's Bay. H. M. S. Fly at Erromango. Erromanga Vanuatu New Hebrides Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W A M C New Zealand. Bottom right, with sheet trimmed and words missing: Dillons Bay, Erromang ... was killed & eaten by n ... H M S Fly & ... Copy of Capt Oliver's ...; Verso - in ink on backing linen: H M S Fly and schooner Undine. Dillons Bay, Island of Erromango, latitute 18 [degrees] 15 [minutes] S, Longitute 169 [degrees] 17 [minutes] E. Beach on which the Missionary Williams was killed and eaten by the natives. Capt Oliver. [signed] W A McCleverty Copy of picture by Capt. R.A. Oliver. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 308 x 435 mm Provenance: Presented anonymously after an exhibition at New Zealand House, 1956.

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

Reference: E-454-q-038

Description: A European ship, possibly H. M. S. Havannah, is hauled up on the beach in the distance. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: 1831-1851

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3052

Description: Includes logs of the Acheron and Havannah 1848-1851, letter books for the Beagle 1841-1843 and for the Acheron 1848-1851, which contain detailed descriptions and comments on the New Zealand settlements. For the Beagle, the papers include: Captain's orders, memorandum on methods of surveying, remarks on Bass Strait and Van Dieman's Land and other observations of the Australian coast, a game book, sketch album, and general notebook of observations. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 22 Jul 1850

From: Vigors, Philip Doyne (Lieutenant), 1825-1903 : Private journal of a four months cruise through some of the South Seas Islands and New Zealand in HMS Havannah

Reference: qMS-2081-018a

Description: Vigors' sketch ("No. 8"), made from high ground near Mt Eden, shows the early township of Auckland with the barracks labelled at right, the harbour crowded with sailing ships, the largest labelled "HMS Havannah" together with smaller vessels, and looks northward towards North Head with Rangitoto Island in the distance. Sketch is from Vigor's journal of his voyage on HMS Havannah and is mounted on an inserted page following p 18. Lieutenant Philip Doyne Vigors was an officer with the 11th Regiment of Foot. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Ink and grey wash 170 x 225 mm

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-026

Description: A tall-masted warship in the harbour, its sails furled. A rocky headland in the left foreground and part of an indeterminate structure. An unfinished preliminary sketch Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993.

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-188-016

Description: View from the cut down side of Fort Macquarie, looking west towards Dawes Point Battery. There is a soldier standing to attention on the right, inside the Fort, houses on land to the right and the Battery with flag flying on a promontory to the left. H. M. S. Havannah is moored in the harbour in Sydney Cove. The artist's title is incorrect. The view is actually from Bennelong Point, looking at Dawe's Point. The correct identification of this view was provided by James Semple Kerr and Joan Kerr, October 1995, during a visit to the Library. Other Titles - Dawes Point from Fort Macquarie on Bennelong Point, Sydney Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H. M. S. Havannah Sept 1849. H. S.; Recto - bottom centre - Darling Point Port Jackson. Darling Point from ... Sydney Harbour [the latter barely visible in faint pencil]; Recto - bottom right - HGS The artist served as a naval officer aboard H. M. S. Havannah Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper 137 x 232 mm. Transfers: Removed from H. G. Swainson's Journal (1850-1851) March 1967. Journal held in Manuscripts & Archives..

Date: 1847-1858

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892

Reference: MS-2097

Description: Swainson wrote `I intend to give you a regular account of all my proceedings, since I left New Zealand...' and goes on to describe his `romantic wanderings' in these 11 letters written to his sister, Mary, except for the last, to Johnnie. He writes of his voyages to England, describing visiting Valparaiso, the island of La Garta where they collected guano, and spending time in England. He writes also from Sydney and Rio de Janeiro, on the `Havannah', Devonport, the Baltic and Hong Kong in each case describing details of the voyage, his work, and family concerns. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (11 items). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm, green linen)

Date: 1848

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-001

Description: Profile of a tall rocky island with a sailing ship to the right, closer to the viewer. The ship is likely to be either H. M. S. Havannah or H. M. S. Bramble. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: 1825-1837

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1003

Description: Includes certificates of practice from the Stamp Office, Scotland for R R Strang, writer (lawyer) of Glasgow, 1827-1837; paper re Hugh Hastings and Alexander Mekang, tried at Admiralty Sessions, Feb 1825 and indicted on 4 counts re events on board the merchant ship `Havannah'; trust disposition and settlement made by Mrs Anne Collins, 1833; sworn charter re land at Kilmun, Argyllshire made by David Napier to Joseph Mack, 1835 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1849

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-049

Description: A broadside view of a ship Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: 1848-1849

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2441

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1841-1872

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3054

Description: Correspondence, both official and private; observation notes, mainly for the Acheron. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1857-1860

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2445

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1849-1852

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2442

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1847-1852

By: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)

Reference: Micro-MS-0755

Description: Items include log of the Acheron, 1848-1850; two official letterbooks, 1848-1851; a general notebook of calculations and observations; manuscript of proposed book The Voyage of the Acheron; several notebooks and miscellaneous papers. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Positive microfilm Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1 Jan 1850-31 Dec 1851

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: MS-2096

Description: Journal kept by Swainson on board HMS `Havannah' and HMS `Bramble' on voyages between England, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Contains detailed descriptions of social life in Sydney, Wellington, Hobart and Auckland, and of the Society Islands, the Isle of Pines, Fiji and Rio de Janeiro. Includes a photograph of Swainson and an engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire. A typed inventory of outline of events is included. Accompanying material - Photograph of Henry Gabriel Swainson; transcript of portion of journal, Oct-Nov 1850, when Swainson was at the Isle of Pines; outline of events noted in the journal, by Lynda Scarth; note by Dorothy Swainson re provenance of journal; engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire Source of title - Supplied title: title on front endpaper `Private journal/Commencing Jan 1st 1850/Ending December 31st 1851/Henry Swainson/Her Majesty's Ship "Havannah"/ Sydney 1850-' Quantity: 1 volume(s) (186 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm, ½ red calf, marbled boards in red buckram hinged lid box) Transfers: Two pencil sketches (1) Hutt River (1849) signed W & HS and (2) of HMS `Havannah' at Darling Point, Port Jackson, removed to Drawings and Prints. Enlarged copy of photograph of Swainson in PS 284152.. Processing information: Digitisation details - Inserts located at the end of the digital files

Date: 28 Feb 1848-18 Dec 1851

By: Havannah HMS (Ship)

Reference: MSY-4239

Description: Comprises the log of HMS `Havannah' under Capt J E Erskine in which is recorded weather, the position of the ship, the wind, sailing direction, sails set, activities at certain times of the day and other aspects of shipboard life, especially maintenance. The voyage began in Sheerness via Lisbon, Madeira, Trinidad, Cape of Good Hope, St Paul's Island, Cape Otway, Australia (Farm Cove) to New Zealand, passing Three Kings Island to Auckland and sailing via Cape Runaway to Port Nicholson. From there the log records sailing for Sydney, Ports Phillip and Arthur, Hobart Town, often returning to ports already visited, back to NZ (Auckland, Bay of Islands), Savage Island, Samoa, Tonga and other locations not noted. The ship returned to both Australia and New Zealand again, and spent long periods at Farm Cove towards the end of the expedition. Source of title - Transcribed Further journals on board the `Havannah' were kept by Vigors (at qMS-2081 (original), qMS-2082-2084 (transcribed) and MS-Copy-Micro-0060); and by Henry Gabriel Swainson at MS-2096-2097, which also has his letters to his sister, and (MS-Copy-Micro-0172) The log has been recorded by several people, one of whom is thought to be a midshipman or crew member whose occupations included rigging marks, mats, washing clothes, painting the ship's side, mending sails and holding divine service. The voyage was notable for Erskine's discovery of the Torres Islands. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (420 pages numbered as 210 leaves). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (34 cm, ½ red morocco, marbled boards) Processing information: Access statement changed from "Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room" to "Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original" on 26 October 2022.

Date: 13 Jul-10 Nov 1850

By: Vigors, Philip Doyne, 1825-1903

Reference: qMS-2081

Description: Vigors went to Australia with the 11th Regiment of Foot, in 1846. The diary records a voyage to Auckland, Whangaroa, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Fiji, with detailed descriptions of places and peoples visited. The manuscript includes illustrative work by Vigors in ink, pencil and watercolour, of land and geographical features, activities and artifacts of Maori life and culture, and of the culture of the various Pacific peoples he encountered and named portraits of persons encountered; annotated paper from New South Wales Parliament re the Botanic Gardens, Sydney; clippings; and letter in French. The `Havannah' was commanded by Captain Erskine A listing of the holdings of the Public Record Office of Ireland relating to Philip Vigors is located in the back file for this collection Source of title - Title page Relationship complexity - Glass plate negatives of illustrations within the volume are held in the Photographic Archve collection (PAColl-6719). These appear to have been taken for inclusion in the 1924 typescript transcript of the journal (qMS-2082-2084). Lieutenant Vigors was with the 11th Regiment of Foot, serving in New South Wales at the time he undertook this voyage. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (249 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, printed matter with original illustrations (26 cm; ½ black leather) Finding Aids: A list of sketches is included. Includes illustrations; transparencies of many of these are held by Drawings and Prints Section Processing information: Digitisation details - The digitised copy also includes five inserted pages which comprises a printed copy of a letter, a handwriten letter, and two leaves of a newspaper cutting.