Library Results | Royal Museums Greenwich

: the true story of the emigrant ship 'Annie Jane' wrecked September 1853 on the Island of Vatersay, Charnley, Bob 1992 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 325.252:656.614.2(411:71)

., the President : read at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, on Wednesday, November 30, 1853 Rosse, William Parsons,-Earl of, 1853. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Shipping Act 1854, The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act 1855, and The Customs Consolidation Act 1853 Great Britain. Laws, statutes etc 1862 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61

The wreck of the 'Annie Jane' : the forgotten island disaster 1853, Vatersay, Outer Hebrides /Allan F ""Quebec or the bottom!" The captain shouted and he was a man of his word. In late 1853, the ship Annie Jane set sail from Liverpool heading for Quebec in North America. On board were 450 men, women and children: Irish, Scottish and English emigrants fleeing poverty and famine. They never made it. At almost midnight on the 28th of September the ship was wrecked in a horrendous storm and driven ashore on the small island of Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides. With the loss of up to 350 of the passengers and crew. In this deeply researched and powerfully told story, author Allan F. Murray tells the story of life aboard a typical 19th century emigrant ship. Vividly capturing the bravery and resilience of the neglected, impoverished steerage passengers and the extraordinary final journey of the Annie Jane. The shipwreck left 102 survivors desperately looking for shelter and succor on an island with only one house and facing more hardship and danger as they made their way slowly home from one of the remotest, inaccessible areas of Scotland. During research for the book, two surviving eye witness accounts were discovered. The first is a well crafted compassionate account from steerage written by a 'Ragged School' orphan, who was among a group of young men being sent to North America to start new lives. Only two survived the catastrophe. The second is from the elitist perspective of a young Swiss/French gentleman in cabin class, burdened with all the social attitudes of his times. A member of a Protestant Christian missionary group heading across the Atlantic to evangelise the Catholic population of Quebec, his testimony dramatically describes the painful death throes of the ship and the last moments of his travelling companions. Both these descriptive accounts are reproduced in full. The book is a fitting memorial to the brave emigrants who did not make it. For the first time the names of those who perished and survived one of the worst shipwrecks in British Maritime history is recorded for posterity."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3ANNIE JANE

The story of the Scoltock family and their journey to Port Phillip settlement in the colony in 1853 / Shepherd, Joy 2019 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92SCOLTOCK

October 1853 to... December 1854.. . Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1858 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22

and Report of the Astronomer Royal read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1853 Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1853 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.1:094

discovery of the North-West Passage by HMS Investigator, Capt R M'Clure during the years 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853 M'Clure, Robert 1865 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 623.82Investigator

The discovery of the North-West Passage by HMS Investigator, Capt R M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Investigator

return of the number of transports employed in carrying troops and munitions of war between 1st November 1853 Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Lords 1855 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.828.52(42)"18"

Arctic explorations : the Second Grinnell Expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 Kane, Elisha Kent 1857 • BOOK • 6 copies available. 629.123Advance

News : index to illustrations of ships, ports and places, and other items of general maritime interest 1853 Evans, Vaughan 1990. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 014.3:05ISN:7.047(26)

Gennie : the story of Staff Commander John Thomas Ewing Gowlland R.N. 1838-1874 based on his journals (1853 Vink, Joanna. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.100942

The story of the Scoltock family and their journey to Port Phillip settlement in the colony 1853 : including Shepherd, Joy 1991 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 325.2(94)

of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr Babbage at their meeting in June 1853 Sheepshanks, R 1854. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

The opening of Japan, 1853-1855 : a comparative study of the American, British, Dutch and Russian naval McOmie, William. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 952"1853/1855"

of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan : performed in the years 1852, 1853 Hawks, Francis L 1856 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82Powhatan

The first Pacific War : Britain and Russia, 1854-1856 /John D. Grainger. Grainger, John D., 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1854/1856"

The Crimean War in Imperial Context, 1854-1856 / Andrew C. Rath. "The Crimean War was fought far from its namesake peninsula in Ukraine. Until now, accounts of Britain's and France's naval campaigns against Czarist Russia in the Baltic, White Sea, and Pacific have remained fragmented, minimized, or thinly-referenced. This book considers each campaign from an imperial perspective extending from South America to Finland. Ultimately, this regionally-focused approach reveals that even the smallest Anglo-French naval campaigns in the remote White Sea had significant consequences in fields ranging from medical advances to international maritime law. Considering the perspectives of neutral powers, including China, Japan, and Sweden-Norway, allows Rath to examine the Crimean conflict's impact on major historical events ranging from the "opening" of Tokugawa Japan to Russia's annexation of large swaths of Chinese territory. Complete with customized maps and an extensive reference section, this will become essential reading for a varied audience."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1853/1856"(477.7)

in search of Sir John Franklin and the missing crews of HM Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, 1852, 1853 M'Dougall, George F 1857 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 623.82Assistance

of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr Babbage at their meeting in June 1853 Sheepshanks, R 1860. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Sheepshanks

Observations on the zodiacal light : from April 2, 1853, to April 22, 1855, made chiefly on board the Jones, George, 1856. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4(520:73):094

Ueber die Fortschritte der Astronomie in dem letzten Decennium. Littrow, Karl Ludwig, 1851-1853? • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1843/1853":094

The Crimean war Blake, R L V ffrench 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1854/1856"(477.9)

Explore our Collection