Volume I Part 2 (1/2)
The crew ee, consisted of:
John Clements Wickham, Commander and Surveyor
James B Emery, Lieutenant
Henry Eden, Lieutenant
John Lort Stokes, Lieutenant and assistant Surveyor
Alexander B Usborne, Master
Benjaeon
John E Dring, Clerk in charge
Benjamin F Helpman, Mate
Auchmuty T Freeze, Mate
Thomas T Birch, Mate
LR Fitzmaurice, Mate
William Tarrant, Master's assistant
Charles Keys, Clerk
Thomas Sorrell, Boatswain
John Weeks, Carpenter
A corporal of marines and seven privates, with forty seamen and boys
(Footnote This officer I afterwards appointed to the assistant surveyorshi+p (vacated uponCaptain Wickha duties: an appointment most handsomely confirmed by Captain Beaufort)
(Footnote Mr Keys was always a volunteer for boat work, and is entitled to honourable reat value upon e the following changes occurred:
Mr Usborne invalided, in consequence of his wound, in May 1839; Mr
Birch exchanged, in August 1839, with Mr Pasco, into the Britoed, in September 1839, with Mr Forsyth, into the Pelorus; in February 1840, Mr Helpman joined the colonial service in Western Australia; Mr CJ Parker was appointed, in Dece Mr Tarrant, who had been doing Master's duty since Mr Usborne left; Lieutenants Eland in March 1841 Late in the same month Commander Wickham invalided, when the writer of this narrative was appointed to the vacant command, by Commander Owen Stanley, HMS Britomart, senior officer present, an appointment subsequently confirmed by the Lords of the Admiralty In April 1841, Lieutenant Graham Gore succeeded Lieutenant Emery Commander Wickham, myself, Mr Bynoe, the Boatswain, and two le
(Footnote Fro, having sailed in the Beagle on her fore, he proved a very valuable addition to our party)
(Footnote Lieutenant Gore had been appointed to HMS Herald and ca to join her at Sydney: on his arrival, he found she had left the station; and though hehis friends there, he in the le, and proved hireatest value, both to the service, and the friend who here seeks to do justice to his worth This deserving officer would seee of surveying and discovery, his grandfather having accoator, Cook, and his father, the unfortunate Bligh
Besides Lieutenant Gore's valuable services in HMS Beagle, he was 1st Lieutenant of HMS Volage, during the early part of the Chinese war, and present at the capture of Aden: he served under Captain Sir George Back in the Polar expedition, and on board HMS Albion at the battle of Navarin)
DEPARTURE FROM WOOLWICH
On the 9th of June we left Woolwich, in tow of HM Steamer Boxer, furnished with every comfort and necessary (by the Lords of the Admiralty) which our own experience, or the kind interest of Captain Beaufort could suggest It had been deterested by Lieutenant Grey to Lord Glenelg, then Secretary of State for the Colonies--that, sireat continent of Australia, under Captain Wickham, a party should be employed in inland researches, in order reat river, or water inlet, supposed, upon the authority of Captains King and Dampier, to open out at some point on its western or north-western side, then but partially and imperfectly surveyed
LIEUTENANTS GREY AND LUshi+NGTON'S PARTY
This expedition was now entrusted to the command of Lieutenant Grey--since Governor of South Australia--as accoton; Mr Walker, Surgeon, and Corporals Coles and Auger, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, who had volunteered their services: they were to take passage in the Beagle, and to proceed either to the Cape of Good Hope or Swan River, as Lieutenant Grey ed that they should join us at Ply called at Ports us
Here ere busily occupied for so the variousthe shi+p to try the local attraction, which neither here, nor in any subsequent experiree As the shi+p lay in the Sound our observations were made on a stone in the breakwater marked 230/1, from whence we took our chronoth from the east end, and had been used for si and Fitzroy We considered it to be west of Greenwich, 0 hours 16 minutes 33 seconds 4t
FAREWELL GLANCE AT PLYMOUTH