The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This print was published in the Melbourne based, Australasian Sketcher, on 22 April 1882. There are five images compiled into this print. The top left image is captioned 'Queenscliff Night Visions' and shows a Captain with an enormous moustache reaching out his hand. The top centre image is captioned 'The Nelson Bombarding Queenscliff' showing a nighttime scene of the vessel in action with the headlands just in the background. The top right image is captioned 'To Arms' and shows aman partially dressed and trying to play the bugle. There is a row of tents in the background. The bottom left image is captioned 'The Queenscliff Battery', with two men firing a canon. The bottom left image is captioned 'The Rush For The Guns' and shows men falling over themselves in the race to their posts. The whole scene appears to be one of wry amusement about the event of preparing defences.
This print featured on the front page of the Australasian Sketcher on 23 October 1880. It shows vessels letting off fireworks, while crowds are gathered along the shoreline to watch. Hobson's Bay in
This colonial wood engraving published in the Australasian Sketcher, 27 March 1880 shows a small dinghy being rowed out to construction works of a fort in the middle of the channel.Other sailing vesse
This scene, of coastal defences of Port Phillip heads, was printed in the Australasian Sketcher on 11 May 1878, page 25. In the foreground is the encampment, and gun positions, and in the background
These two prints were published in the Australasian Sketcher on 22 February 1882, page 25. In the top image, titled 'Off to the squadron', civilians crowd on a wharf and watch as a woman is assisted t
This engraving is by an unknown artist after George Ashton. It shows a scene published in 'The Australasian Sketcher', Melbourne, 4 May 1885, depicting a gun crew on the frigate HMS 'Nelson' firing a
This wood engraving was published in The Illustrated Australian News, 13 May 1885 and shows colonial defence works being built at Queenscliff, Victoria. The vignettes illustrate the defences at the He