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RUPERT ENGLAND (compilor)
An album of photographs taken during the relief voyage of the S.Y. Morning and Terra Nova, [circa November 1903-February 1904]. 8° (219 x 150mm), containing 42 gelatin silver prints (each 11.5 x 90cm approx.) including portraits, views on board the Morning and views of both the Terra Nova and the Discovery. Original cloth, titled on upper cover 'Sunny Series Photographs (lightly soiled and discoloured). Provenance: Rupert England; Mrs Jones (godmother to Rupert England's daughter); by descent.
An interesting series covering the Morning's second relief voyage, in conjunction with the Terra Nova. The two vessels left Tasmania in the middle of December 1903 under the command of Captains Colbeck and MacKay. Rupert England served as first mate aboard the Morning. They were sighted by Scott and Wilson off the ice shelf on 4th January, and by 16th February the ice-bound Discovery was free with the Morning and Terra Nova moored alongside. The final photograph in the album, taken from on board the Morning some time between February 16th and 19th (the date of departure of the ships), shows the Discovery with, in the background, to the left, Hut Point with the newly-erected wooden memorial cross to Vince, the only man lost on the expedition ("Towering above us within a stone's throw was the rocky promontory of Hut Point; on its summit, and clearly outlined against the sky, stood the cross which we had erected to our shipmate": Scott. The Voyage of the "Discovery" London: 1905. Vol.II, p.361). England went on to take initial command of the Nimrod on Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909.
[With:] S.Y.Morning. A silver-plated 'Old English' pattern table fork, engraved with the badge of the National Antarctic Expedition S.Y.Morning. (2)
An album of photographs taken during the relief voyage of the S.Y. Morning and Terra Nova, [circa November 1903-February 1904]. 8° (219 x 150mm), containing 42 gelatin silver prints (each 11.5 x 90cm approx.) including portraits, views on board the Morning and views of both the Terra Nova and the Discovery. Original cloth, titled on upper cover 'Sunny Series Photographs (lightly soiled and discoloured). Provenance: Rupert England; Mrs Jones (godmother to Rupert England's daughter); by descent.
An interesting series covering the Morning's second relief voyage, in conjunction with the Terra Nova. The two vessels left Tasmania in the middle of December 1903 under the command of Captains Colbeck and MacKay. Rupert England served as first mate aboard the Morning. They were sighted by Scott and Wilson off the ice shelf on 4th January, and by 16th February the ice-bound Discovery was free with the Morning and Terra Nova moored alongside. The final photograph in the album, taken from on board the Morning some time between February 16th and 19th (the date of departure of the ships), shows the Discovery with, in the background, to the left, Hut Point with the newly-erected wooden memorial cross to Vince, the only man lost on the expedition ("Towering above us within a stone's throw was the rocky promontory of Hut Point; on its summit, and clearly outlined against the sky, stood the cross which we had erected to our shipmate": Scott. The Voyage of the "Discovery" London: 1905. Vol.II, p.361). England went on to take initial command of the Nimrod on Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909.
[With:] S.Y.Morning. A silver-plated 'Old English' pattern table fork, engraved with the badge of the National Antarctic Expedition S.Y.Morning. (2)