Harry Lyon map collection
- Bib ID:
- 181369
- Format:
- Map
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Scale:
- Scales differ.
- Description:
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- [1902-1928]
- Washington, D.C. 1902-1928
- 6 maps ; 118 x 95.5 cm or smaller + 8 pages of notes
- Series:
- Harry Lyon map collection.
- Biography/History:
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Son of a Rear Admiral, Harry Lyon became a Merchant Marine and Commander in the U.S. Navy in World War One, having been kicked out of the Annapolis Naval Academy. In 1928 he navigated the pioneering trans-Pacific flight in the Southern Cross with crew Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, and James Warner. Lyon had been introduced to Kingsford Smith and Ulm by assistant hydrographer Captain J.C. MacMillan. He went on to rum running in California. In World War Two he was a U.S. Navy Transport Captain, active in convoys at Oran, Algeria, and Salerno, Italy landings. He retired to his home state of Maine and died in 1963.
- Notes:
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- United States hydrographic charts with manuscript plots by Harry Lyon, navigator on the Charles Kingsford Smith 1928 crossing of the Pacific Ocean from Oakland, California via Hawaii and Suva to Brisbane, Queensland. Relief shown by shading, spot heights and bathymetric soundings.
- Chart nos. "2027", "2941", "4000", "2020", "2021", "527".
- Notes describing each chart.
- Maps in this collection were previously shelved at MAP RM 2811/1-6.
- Page 8 of descriptive notes suggests that the National Library of Australia's copy of Fiji Islands, South Pacific Ocean : from surveys between 1854 and 1882 with additions from United States and Fiji Govt. surveys at RM 2811 https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn8057057 was possibly given to Charles Kingsford Smith by Harry Lyon.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232111831
- Related Material:
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- Related material: Fiji Islands, South Pacific Ocean : from surveys between 1854 and 1882 with additions from United States and Fiji Govt. surveys; Located at; National Library of Australia Map collection, RM 2811 --
- Related material: Papers of Charles Kingsford-Smith, 1917-1935; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection, MS 209 --
- Related material: Newspaper cuttings, 1928 [manuscript] regarding the 1928 trans-Pacific flight of the Southern Cross; Located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection, MS 5312 --
- Related material: Charles Kingsford-Smith and Harry Lyons and James Warner recorded by 2GB in Historical recordings of important events collection; Located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection, ORAL TRC 22/4 --
- Related material: Harry Lyon, navigator and James Warner, wireless operator on the Kingsford Smith Pacific Flight, New South Wales, 1928; Located at; National Library of Australia Pictures collection, PIC/15611/2555 LOC Cold store PIC/15611.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Presented to then Transport Minister Peter Nixon for "the people of Australia" by Harry Lyon's second cousin W.E. Hunt in 1978 on a visit to Australia to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Southern Cross flight. These charts where donated to the National Library by Ken Williams of the Civil Aviation Authority in 1988.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Finding aid available in Special Collections Reading Room and online.
- Finding Aid reference no.: MFC 36.
- Subject:
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- Lyon, Harry W., Captain, 1885-1963 -- Maps
- Kingsford Smith, Charles, 1897-1935 -- Maps
- Nautical charts -- Pacific Ocean
- Air pilots -- Australia -- Maps
- Aeronautical charts -- Pacific Ocean
- Aeronautics -- Australia -- Flights -- Maps
- Transpacific flights -- Maps
- Australia -- Maps
- Pacific Ocean -- Maps
- Genre/Form:
- Nautical charts
- Time Coverage:
- 1902-1928
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lyon, Harry W. Captain
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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