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Naval cadets doing physical training on the N.S.S. 'Sobraon'

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Gangnam style!
  • Armidalehistory said:
    Couple of boys whom look like they are of Aboriginal descent on the left side. Lovely pic.

Schooltime on the Sobraon

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • Highranger said:
    A composite full-rigged ship built of teak and iron in 1866. She was the largest composite sailing ship ever built. 1866 - Launched at the shipyard of A. Hall, Aberdeen, for Lowther, Maxton & Co., London. Employed in the Australian passenger & cargo trade. 1892 - Sold to the New South Wales Government for £ 15.000 and turned into a reformatory ship moored off Cockatoo Island in Sydney harbour. 1911 - Sold to the Commonwealth Government for £ 15.000 and was renamed HMAS Tingara. Converted into a training ship for boys entering the Australian Navy at a cost of £ 7000. 1927 - Sold and moored in Berry's Bay, Sydney. 1941 - Broken up at Sydney.

N.S.S Sobraon - recreation ground

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    This is a good one for a game of "spot the difference"!
  • pellethepoet said:
    Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Nearly got me there ... I thought from the thumbnail it was one of your rare duplicated posts!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wondering where the "Recreation Ground" was. What's the building behind? Church / courthouse to the right?
  • pellethepoet said:
    beachcomber australia from Children's institutions in nineteenth-century Sydney by John Ramsland, 2011, Dictionary of Sydney:
    A recreation ground was set up for the boys on Cockatoo Island adjacent to the ship's moorage, and a saltwater tidal baths was erected beside it. Larger pets such as an emu were kept on the fringes of the recreation grounds and smaller pets such as dogs and cockatoos were kept aboard ship to be cared for there.
    - www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/childrens_institutions_i...
  • pellethepoet said:
    Although not digitised, the Powerhouse Museum description would indicate their entry is for the same photo -
    The boys are shown playing cricket and doing gymastics. An Emu is seated in the middle of the ground.
    which would date this photo to 1894, and not long before 14 June -
    The donor, Captain Frederick William Neitenstein, superintendent of the Sobraon, states in a letter to the Museum, 14 June 1894, that the photographs P1835:P1854 are "just received from the Government Printer".
    - www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=321221