Owen Stanley
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Captain Owen Stanley FRS was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor.
Captain Owen Stanley RN in 1837
HMS Pelorus at low water, Port Essington, Northern Territory, 1840 painting by Owen Stanley
The grave of Owen Stanley, RN, Cammeray, Sydney, 1850, by Edward Wolfe Brooker
HMS Rattlesnake (1822)
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HMS Rattlesnake was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1822. She made a historic voyage of discovery to the Cape York and Torres Strait areas of northern Australi
Owen Stanley
…duty. During that time, on 23 September 1844, he was promoted to captain at the age of 33. In December 1846 Stanley sailed from Portsmouth in charge of HMS Rattlesnake, with the naturalists Thomas Huxley, John MacGillivray and artist Oswald Walters Brierly on board, accompanied by Charles Bampfield Yule in HMS Bramble…
Rattlesnake, painted by Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, 1853
The capture of Chinhai on 10 October 1841, showing HMS Rattlesnake (centre)