2770 Charles James Card Diaries, 1847-1850.

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2770 Charles James Card Diaries, 1847-1850.

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Two journals kept by Charles James Card during his service on board HMS Rattlesnake between 12 November 1847 and 7 March 1850. HMS Rattlesnake, commanded by Captain Owen Stanley, and its accompanying vessels undertook an expedition to conduct the first systematic hydrographic survey of the central and northern coast of Queensland, the south coast of New Guinea and the Louisiade Archipelago.

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Rattlesnake (Ship)

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Card, Charles James.

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Very little is known about the early life of Charles James Card. The 1881 Census of England indicates that he was then 48 years of age and unmarried. Card appears to have joined the Royal Navy in 1846. He served on Her Majesty's Surveying Ship Rattlesnake as a midshipman and later as a clerk between October 1846 and October 1850. According to a brass tablet in Wareham Church, Dorset he served in the Royal Navy for 40 years. 22 of these years were spent at sea on the Rattlesnake, Calliom, Spitfir...

Stanley, Owen

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