HMS Dart was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Barrow and launched in 1877 as Cruiser for Lord Eglinton. She was subsequently purchased by the Colonial Office for the use of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon as governor of the Fiji Islands. On his appointment to New Zealand Cruiser was purchased by the Royal Navy as a tender for the training ship Britannia and the name changed to Dart in March 1882. Requisitioned as a yacht for the Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station, she instead was fitted out for survey duties of the Australia Station. She commenced service on the Australia Station in 1883 undertaking hydrographic surveys around Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific; including survey work in the waters of Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Marshall Islands and New Britain Island, from May to September, 1884. In 1885 she became the first command of Arthur Mostyn Field. She was reported as potentially lost on Wednesday 26 June 1889 after a whaleboat was found near North Cape, Auckland, but she later sailed into Sydney. Lieutenant Frederick Claude Coote Pasco was appointed in command in January 1902, when she served as a surveying vessel on the Australia station. She visited Noumea and the Solomon Islands in June 1902 (Source Wikipedia, accessed 01/10/2015, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dart_%281882%29).
Dart HMS (Ship)
Astronomical observation and survey data books 85, 90, 6, 7, 8a
Date: 1843, 1863, 1885-1889
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2459
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Survey data books 17a-b - 19, 21, 24, 27
Date: 1888-1896
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2460
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Survey data books 35, 41-43, 50a
Date: 1896-1906
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2462
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Records
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2601
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Surveyors' letters Box 1894 O-Z - Box 1909
Date: 1894-1909
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2337
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Official papers relating to the administration of Customs Department, Wellington
Date: 1835-1856
From: Catchpool, Edward, 1806-1874 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0077-2
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of contents of this folder.
Records
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2770
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Records
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2771
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Survey data books 12 - 13 Australia
Date: 1862-1866, 1889
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2447
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Surveyors' letters Box 1877-78 - Box 1890
Date: 1877-1890
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2335
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Surveyors' letters Box 1891 - Box 1894 A-M
Date: 1891-1894
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2336
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Dack, Frederick, 1871-1947: Pacific journal and photograph album
Date: 1 Jan 1890 - 3 Jan 1891
By: Dack, Frederick, 1871-1947
Reference: MSX-9428
Description: Volume comprised of two separate works - a journal account and a photographic documentation. The first is a written account on 207 pages by the Ordinary Seaman Frederick Dack describing his naval experiences aboard the HMS 'Orlando' and the HMS 'Dart' in 1890-1891. The account commences on 1 January 1890 when Dack, who joined the crew of the HMS 'Orlando' at Sydney after travelling from England on the Orient Line's 'Iberia' the previous year, describes both life on board and on shore at Sydney. Departing from Sydney on 6 January, the account goes on to describe the sighting of Stewart Island and entering Milford Sound on 11 January, arrival at Port Chalmers on 12 January and at Akaroa the following day. The voyage continues to Lyttelton Harbour on 16 January, Wellington Harbour 21 January, White Island on 25 January and Auckland the following day. Preparation and participation in the Auckland Anniversary Regatta is described. The expedition departs from Auckland on 18 February and after calling at Russell in the Bay of Island, heads for Tasmania, arriving at Hobart on 25 February, and from there to Melbourne via Bass Strait on 15 March. Dack served on the HMS 'Orlando' until 8 May 1890 when he joined the crew of the survey ship HMS 'Dart' and left Australia for the Pacific on 22 May 1890. The journal then gives an account of visits to a number of Pacific Islands and closes with a final entry dated 3 January 1891 after the ship has returned to Sydney. The second, commencing backwards from the lower boards of the volume is a photographic work created by the hydrographic surveyor Lieutenant Boyle Somerville aboard the HMS 'Dart'. Photographs depict shipboard life aboard the HMS 'Dart' as well as capturing views and scenes from the lives of the local peoples of Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Norfolk Island, and other Pacific Islands. Also includes a portrait of Victor Doucere and four portraits of unidentified Māori women. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, holograph, printed matter and photographic prints. Volume half-bound in black leather with marbled paper boards, edges and endpapers, 183 leaves of ruled unwatermarked laid paper, 24 x 18 cm; includes 139 photographic prints mounted on 81 pages, with 79 blank pages between the two sections of the volume.