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Image of Woolwich Dock

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wonderful detail in the large size - you can almost smell the place - great period details of a working dock. See comments and links on www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/8160269125/ - likely to be a different day because of the ships involved, c.1902 December. The photographer must have been up a ship's mast to get this shot - there are no tall buildings or hills close by. Hence the slight tilt.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia re the 'windmill' that has our curators a bit stumped. A bit impractical for voyages but is perhaps set up to work as a pump pumping water or air...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons Yes, it struck me as unusual. Looks like a permanent fixture on the ship.
  • colinbm said:
    Spent nearly all day looking for this........ I had seen windmills on a couple of early Antarctic ships, one said to supply electric lighting. But I suspect to supply battery charge for a HF radio ;-) Photo of the 1907 Antarctic expedition ship 'NIMROD' ( 1865-1919) in Mort's Woolwich Dock. www.photosau.com.au/cos/scripts/ExtSearch.asp?SearchTerm=... Further searching has shown that 'NIMROD' didn't visit Australia in 1907 before the Antarctic expedition. 'NIMROD' did arrive in Sydney on the 20 April 1909, after the Antarctic expedition. 'NIMROD' left from Sydney on the 8 May 1909. While in Sydney there were numerous mentions of 'NIMROD' in Harbour movements, non mention her at Woolwich Dock.

British Library digitised image from page 89 of "L'Espace céleste et la nature tropicale, description physique de l'univers ... préface de M. Babinet, dessins de Yan' Dargent"

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  • astronomy_blog said:
    The caption reads: "Spectres Sidéraux: 1) Soleil 2) α Orion 3) Aldébaran 4) Sirius 5) Rigel 6) Pollux 7) Nébuleuse d'Orion". The star α Orion is also known as Betelgeuse. I wrote a blog post about this image and spectroscopy at www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/001041.shtml