Guide to the Papers of the Phipps Hornby Family (as filmed by the AJCP)

To Sir George Seymour re events in France and the 'necessity of the greatest caution in your intercourse with the French squadron' (4p.), 1 March 1848 (File)

To Hornby re cession of Galapagos Islands to Great Britain by Equador, enclosing copies of despatches from Foreign Office and Consul at Quito, that not expedient to acquire them (24p.), 17 March 1848 (File)

Commander W.C. Aldham (Swift, Valparaiso) to Hornby re fitness of Surgeon Fred Whipple (2p.), 24 November 1850 - 21 January 1851 (File)

Encloses copy of Fred Whipple (24/11/1850) (Swift, Valparaiso) to Aldham re injury received when struck on head by a runaway convict in New South Wales. (2p.)

E. Barazer. Report on navigation in the Pacific and location of islands. 1851 (3p. in French), (c) 12 January (File)

Report by Sir George Seymour on principal services reprised from the Squadron in 1848 (4p.) (File)

References to Sandwich Islands, Tahiti, Fiji.

[?] (Government House, Sydney) to Hornby re proposition made by [Mr A. Gabor ?] concerning supply of coals (2p.), 24 July 1848 (File)

Copies of memoranda issued by Hornby (Liverpool, Spithead, Rio, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Honolulu, Valparaiso, Plymouth) to captains of other ships, 8 June 1869 - 15 November 1870 (File ff.61-166)

Subjects include: aims of detached squadron; weekly routines; duties; visit from Emperor of Brazil; free passes issued by Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company; arrangements for visit by Governor of Victoria; issue of preserved meat; entertainments; examination of midshipmen; courts martial; taking on fresh provisions at Honolulu; reports on equipment.

Copies of orders issued by Hornby (Liverpool, at sea, Bahia, Rio, Monte Video, Simons Bay, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Wellington, Auckland, Yokohama, Esquimalt, Valparaiso) to captains of other ships, 10 June 1869 - 22 August 1870 (File ff.143-399)

Subjects include: crew; examination of midshipmen; reception of VIPs; punishments; condition and repair of ships; lists of absentees; disposing of their effects.

Details as above, from Valparaiso, and Plymouth, 22 August 1870 - 16 November 1870 (File)

Sailing orders for Detached squadron, 1866 - 1870 (File ff.125-128)

Includes: 4 January 1870: Hornby (Hobart) to Henry Hand (Barrosa) that he is to proceed to Melbourne 'to identify stragglers who May be apprehended by the police'.

Copies of letters from Hornby (Liverpool, at sea, Simons Bay, Melbourne, Sydney, Lyttelton, Auckland, Yokohoma, Plymouth) to the Admiralty and others reporting proceedings of squadron, 8 June 1869 - 15 November 1870 (File ff.169-402)

Subjects include: provisioning of ships; manning of ships; swimming abilities of crew; examination of midshipmen; visit by Governor of Victoria; court martial; report on preserved meat of Victoria Meat Preserving Company sent for trial in the Squadron; desertions; power of colonial authorities to forward stragglers beyond the limits of the colony; visit to Hobart; selling effects of run men; obstacles to recovery of deserters in Australian colonies.

Copies of letters from Hornby (Liverpool, at sea and Plymouth) to Admiralty reporting voyage home (41p.), November 1870 (File)

Includes: table of original programme and alterations made (in red, faint); list of desertions (300) at each port of call; returns of deaths and sick.

Copies of letters from Hornby (Liverpool, at sea, Melbourne, Auckland, Valparaiso) to Admiralty forwarding periodic returns, 1865 - 1870 (File ff.191-198)

Copies of letters from Hornby (Liverpool, Monte Video, Sydney, Yokohoma) to Captains of Ships ordering courts martial (File ff.14-16)

Hornby (Liverpool, Simons Town) ordering equipment and supplies, 18 August 1869 - 1 February 1870 (File ff.1-4)

Hornby (Liverpool, Simons Bay, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Auckland, Valparaiso) to Governors, 3 October 1869 - 28 August 1870 (File ff.105-119)

Reporting the arrival and movements of the squadron.

Hornby (Liverpool, Sydney) to commanders of forces in Sydney re deserters and the military hospital, 23 December 1869 - 25 December 1869 (File ff.132-133)

T. Bowling (Liverpool, Melbourne) to W.A. Brahe (Consul for North German Confederation) that Hornby cannot meet him, 4 December 1869 (File f.243)

Hornby (Liverpool, Plymouth, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Valparaiso) to various people, 15 June 1869 - 22 October 1870 (File ff.347-376)

Subjects include: charts; coaling; free railway passes; stores; provisions; preserved meat; mail; deserters; courts martial.

Lists of midshipmen on ships in Flying Squadron and their marks in examinations in Arithmetic, mechanics, French etc. (28p.), 1869 - 1870 (File)

Blank pages not copied.

Letters from the Admiralty to Hornby (Liverpool) (162p.), 3 June 1869 - 8 November 1870 (File A 1-49)

Subjects include: command of Liverpool; orders for Flying Squadron; proposed route; examination of midshipmen and cadets; methods of cooking Australian preserved meat; conditions in New Zealand; discipline amongst the Marines; difficulty recovering deserters; courts martial.

(The letters have been weeded, not all numbers present.)

Includes:Australian Meat Agency. Directions for cooking Australian preserved meat (Printed, c.1868)Australian Meat Agency. Opinions of the Press [re preserved meat] (Printed, 1868)

Copies of Hornby's letters while on Liverpool (Madeira, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Yokohoma, Valparaiso) to various people, including Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres, 2 July 1869 - 8 October 1870 (File ff.298-354)

Subjects include: proceedings of the squadron; welcome received in Melbourne; evolutionary signals; his officers; beneficial effects on New Zealand of visit from the squadron; arrival at Yokohoma; desertions in Australia.

Abstract log and remarks for voyage of Liverpool, 19 June 1869 - 15 November 1870 (File)

Abstract log for Bristol from Sierra Leone to England (2p.), December 1867 - January 1868 (File)

Station Regulations and Port Orders for the Squadron Employed in the Pacific. Valparaiso (Printed), 1848 (File)

Issued by Rear Admiral Phipps Hornby, printed with manuscript additions.

B Scrapbook, c. 1869-1870 (File)

Press cuttings from Australian and South African newspapers re visit of Flying Squadron.

(c44p.)

Copies of Hornby's letters (Pylades, Oyster Cove, Suva, Tarawa, Sydney, Williamstown, Melbourne) to CIC Australian Station reporting proceedings of the ship, 10 February 1902 - March 1903 (File ff.1-72)

Subjects include: use of bad language on board; coronation celebrations for King Edward at Suva; navigation aids at Tarawa; icemaking machine; reports on officers; voyage with Telfer Campbell to Gilbert and Ellice Islands; condition of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; French interpreter; Pylades preparations for war; transferring command to Herbert Da Costa. (Faint in places).

Journal kept by Hornby's father-in-law of voyage to Adelaide in Woolloomooloo, visit to cousins in Adelaide and return voyage to Southampton in Friedrich der Grosse, 16 October 1900 - 24 April 1901 (File)

Subjects include: boarding Woolloomooloo; leaving Tilbury; other passengers; Las Palmas; weather; deck sports; taking and developing photographs; Cape Town 'everything is very expensive on account of the war'; Australian and New Zealand troops on board; arrival Port Adelaide 29 November; meeting cousins at Adelaide; Christmas Day; anniversary of founding of South Australia; drive to Blackwood; shops shut on death of Queen Victoria; trip to Mt Lofty to visit Sterlings; imperial troops marching through Adelaide; voyage on Friedrich der Grosse to Colombo; Lord Beauchamp on board; Aden; Suez; Southampton.

Photographs include: other passengers; deck games; Las Palmas; Australian troops at Cape Town (very poor copy), and on board; gumtree at St Leonards; Der Grosse Kurfurst; imperial troops in Adelaide; Pemberton, Glenelg; Friedrich der Grosse; Colombo (very poor copies); Aden; Suez Canal.

Also included 'Captain, doctor and various passengers on the ship', poem. (9p.)