(Australia, Passenger Ships, Travel), 'The Parramatta Echo, ...

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(Australia, Passenger Ships, Travel), 'The Parramatta Echo, Being a Series of Papers Published on the Homeward Voyage of the S. "Parramatta," from February 15th to June 12th, 1886.', edited D. Gannon, F. Rylands & E. Lewis, London, Forsaith Brothers, Steam Printers, 329 Bethnal Green Road, 1886, "Printed for private circulation among Officers and Passengers", issues no.1, (Mar. 3, 1886)- no. 6, (May 19th, 1886), 75pp, lacks pp1/2, general title page (laid down on later paper), 9 stipple engraved plates (including portrait of William Goddard, Commander, plus other ports. Chief Officer, 2nd & 3rd Officers etc, views of the ship passing Cape Point; Jamestown, St. Helena & Ascension Island), rebound mid 20th Century full calf gilt, ownership signature and inscription of Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks (née Rutley, later Fisher, 1895-1970), British Explorer elected to the Royal Geographical Society in 1922, "Violet Olivia Fisher née Rutley, Hazelwood, King's Langley, Herts. Father gave me this copy of the Parramatta Echo, on page 30 father is mentioned as a midshipman on his voyage in 1886 on the famous sailing ship of [-------?] & Moore's. A few months later father married Olivia Ada Leake who died 12 Sept. 1950", page 30 satirical descriptions of the apprentices aboard the SS Parramatta, one of which with manuscript initials "E.R." alongside in margin, i.e. Ernest Rutley, father of Violet Cressy-Marcks. Parramatta was a sailing ship launched at Sunderland in 1866 that operated between Great Britain and Australia and America from 1866 to 1898. She was the second fastest Blackwall frigate. She originally carried wool from Australia to the United Kingdom. When Parramatta undertook its three-month journeys from London to Sydney it would issue a fortnightly amusing magazine to the passengers on board. Some of these were subsequently issued in book form after the journey. The magazine's name changed each time. Rare, no copies on JISC library hub in any UK institutions, only copy on worldcat located worldwide housed in New South Wales State Library, Sydney