Postcard portrait of Governor WIlliam Bligh [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 3640673
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [ca. 1906]
- 1 postcard : half tone reproduction ; 8.9 x 13.9 cm.
- Summary:
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Governor WIlliam Bligh the Governor of New South Wales from 1806 to 1808.
- Biography/History:
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William Bligh was born in Plymouth, England in 1754. In 1770 he joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman, rising to midshipman the following year. Between 1776 and 1793 he made three voyages to the South Seas, the first as master of HMS Resolution under Captain James Cook, 1776-1780, and the second as commander of HMS Bounty on a voyage to Tahiti to collect breadfruits for use as a food crop in the West Indies, 1787-89. This voyage was interrupted by the celebrated mutiny when Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen were cast adrift by Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers. Without charts or adequate provisions, he successfully navigated an open boat 6,705 kilometres to Timor.
- Notes:
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- Ferguson Collection.
- Title from accession record.
- "This card is one of a series of 24 portraits representing the Governors of N.S.W. from A.D. 1788 -1906"
- "Printed and sold in aid of the Q.V. Home for Consumptive Women"
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137149675
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Governors
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1976 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1906
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