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1. The death of Captain Cook.
	The artist, John Webber, was on board HMS 'Resolution', anchored offshore when Cook was killed in Hawaii on 14 February 1779. This is the most...

2. The legend of Pocahontas.
	Captain John Smith, an important member of the Virginia colonists who had set out from Blackwall in December 1606, was captured by native Americans...

3. The portraictuer of Captayne Iohn Smith Admirall of New England.
	Captain John Smith (1580-1631) was a soldier and adventurer. He began his travels by joining volunteers in France who were fighting for Dutch...

4. Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island in May 1855.
	The day after the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay in 1788, Lieutenant Philip Gidley King RN, began selecting men and women to colonise Norfolk...

5. Sir Thomas Rowe. From an original picture at Merchant Taylors Hall.
	Sir Thomas Rowe (1581-1644) was a City man by birth - a grandson on one side of a Lord Mayor of London, on the other of Sir John Gresham. As a young...

6. Prison hulk.
	When the North American colonies declared their independence in 1776 and closed their ports to British convict ships, a crisis in the criminal...

7. Repairing of Captain Cook's ship in Endeavour River (Cook's first voyage).
	In June 1770 the 'Endeavour' was badly damaged running aground on the Great Barrier Reef. The ship limped into Endeavour River on the coast of New...

8. Sir Martin Frobisher.
	During the 1570s and 1580s adventurers searched for a North-East and North-West Passage to open up new markets in the East. Licensed by Elizabeth I,...

9. A government jail gang at Sydney.
	Early Australia and Tasmania were built by convict labour. Over 160,000 convicts were transported from Britain, including nearly 25,000 women. Most...


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