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Contains mainly copy of protests, correspondence, petitions, contracts, salvage accounts, wages, lists of of personal belongings etc. in connection with the wreck of the ship off the Harbour of Dili, Timor, 2 January 1821, and rough notes of chronometer readings and time calculations mainly October 1823

Letter from F. A. de Peyster to H. Messchert 29 January 1852, found loose in the volume, has been inserted

Ledger of the ship Ontario kept by the master F. A. de Peyster December 1819-July 1821

106. Short Empire S.23 flying boat Corio VH-ABD taking off / Qantas
107. DH 86 crash, Barsdale near Longreach, 15 Nov 1934
108. Duke of Gloucester with A.E. Rudder, Capt. L.J. Brain and Fysh at Australia's first overseas air service with a DH 61 Giant Moth Diana VH-UJC, Archerfield, 10 Dec 1934 / Qantas 
109. Imperial Airways Handley Page HP42 G-AAXC Heracles leaving London, 1935 / Qantas (acknowledge "The Aeroplane")
110. First Qantas Empire Airways board meeting, Sydney, 17 July 1938 - l to r, H.H. Harman (Sect.), F.E. Loxton, Fergus McMaster (Chair), A.E. Rudder (Vice-Chair), F.J. Smith, Fysh (Managing Director), (W.A. Watt absent) / Russell Roberts
111. DH 86 RMA Canberra refuels with Shell, Longreach
112. S.A. Dismore, Secretary of Imperial Airways and H.H. Harman, Secretary of QEA
113. Ashore from the Short Singapore III survey flying-boat, Roper River: Brackley and McComb in rubber dinghy / H.Fysh
114. Hempel, Riccard, McComb and Elder at Karumba, Norman River / H.Fysh
115. First official passenger, Lady Louis Mountbatten, with Capt. R.B. Hussey / Qantas
116. Hempel, Riccard and Brackley in rowing boat, Bowen / H.Fysh

117. Empire flying boat promenade deck / Qantas
118. QEA Empire flying boat in RAAF battle-dress (A18-10)
119. Tasman Empire Airways Board, 1941 - l to r, T.A. Barrow, A.E. Rudder (Vice-Chair), Brigadier N.S. Falla (Chair), C.G. White, Fysh, Sir Fergus McMaster / Rob Hillier
120. TEAL flying boat Aotearoa ZK-AMA over Auckland / Stewart & White Ltd.
121. Crew who ferried first Catalina USA-Australia for the RAAF - l to r, Flt Engr D. Wright, Capt L.J. Brain, W/O Bemrose, Capt G.U. Allan, W/O Richmond, Capt P.G. Taylor / Qantas
122. Major Brackley and Timor ponies, Koepang / H.Fysh
123. Empire flying boat Cassiopeia G-ADUX landing, Dili, 1941 / Qantas
124. Bombed ships burn, Darwin Harbour / Dept. Information
125. Flying Fortress destroyed by incendiaries, Broome raid, Mar 1942
126. Rescuing VH-USC and another DH 86, Mt Hagen airstrip / Qantas
127. QEA Empire wartime air routes, map in Fysh's office prior to his trip to England, June 1945 - l to r, Capt. W.H. Crowther, A.E. Rudder, Fysh, Capt. H.B. Hussey / Richard McKinney

128. Catalina over the sea, Perth-Ceylon / Qantas
129. Certificate awarded to H.Fysh "Secret Order of the Double Sunrise" for passengers who flew the Qantas Indian Ocean wartime route from Perth-Colombo, airborne for more than 24 hours (longest scheduled civil airline flight, 3513 miles in unarmed Lend Lease Catalinas in complete radio silence, the planes sunk post-war off Rottnest Island)
130. Lord Knollys, Chair of BOAC, 2nd from right, visits;  Campbell Orde, Chief Technical Officer, BOAC, 2nd from left
131. Loading wounded onto flying boat Camilla, Port Moresby / Qantas
132. Visitors to New Guinea - Arthur Drakeford (Minister for Air), F. Gullick (private secretary) and A.B. Corbett (Director-General of Civil Aviation) talk with Papuan natives Francis and Michael / Dept. of Information
133. Fysh watching unloading of ammunition and armour plate from Qantas Lodestar VH-CAA in US Air Force livery, Dobodura Airstrip / Qantas
134. Australian wounded about to embark for Moresby on Qantas Lockheed Lodestar operated for US Army, Popondetta, 1 Dec 1942 / Qantas
135. Near miss - two Qantas Lodestars operated for US Army, Pt Moresby / H.Fysh
136. QEA work on a USAF Liberator, Archerfield, 24 Apr 1943 / Qantas
137. Woman in wartime works on Coriolanus, Rose Bay, 1944 / Rob Hillier
138. Lord Reith arrives on the Commando, 1945 - l to r, Sir E. Herbert (Director-General British Postal & Telegraph Censorship Dept.), Sir S. Angwin (Assistant Director-General British Post Office), John J.M. Buckley (British War Cabinet Secretariat), Lord Reith (Commissioenr for Works and Planning), Fysh, L.V. Lewis (British Post Office)

139. Coriolanus rescue - native canoe reconnoitres the flying-boat
140. Wounded from crashed Flying Fortress alongside
141. Capt. R.B. Tapp, ccommander of the first Lancastrian mail plane deleivered in Australia, L. N/O F.E. Sander, R.G. Williams (Senior Service Engineer), Mascot, 17 Apr 1945 / Richard McKinney

Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs from Qantas at war, 1934-1945

1263-1264. Unidentified group of men with DH 86A VH-US[?], ca. 1935
1265-1266. People of Timor
1267. Defaulting taxpayer hauls rocks, Dili
1268. Tents used by QEA at 6 Squadron's camp near Ward's strip, Port Moresby, ca. 17 Dec 1942
1269. Lockheed Lodestar VH-CAH operated by QEA for the US Army being unloaded at Dobodura. Fysh was on the flight. (Sgt. Pilot Bird F/O, left foreground), 13 Dec 1942
1270. Lockheed Lodestar VH-CAH operated by ANA, forced to land after Japanese anti-aircraft fire, 4 Dec 1942
1271. QEA Short Empire S.23 Coorong washed up on a bank
1272-1274. Rubber dinghy and dugout canoe, New Guinea
1275. Visiting British celebrity
1276. Short Empire Seaplane Capella G-ADUY destroyed during a water manoeuvre at Batavia, 12 Mar 1939
1277. "Opening the safe" - money changing, Koepang, Timor / Qantas
1278-1281. BOAC Chairman, Viscount Knollys, arrives, Nedlands Base, 28 Feb 1944 / Qantas
1282. Fysh at a ceremony on QEA Short S.23 Coriolanus, 8 Jan 1948 / Jo Fallon
1283. Bluey the Rose Bay Base cattledog, Sept 1942 / Qantas
1284. TEAL Aotearoa and Pan-American Airways Clipper, Mechanics Bay, Auckland / Qantas
1285. QEA Short Empire S.23 Coogee berthed beside RMS Queen Mary, Southampton
1286. QEA DH 86A VH-USC over Brisbane, 1934-1938 / Qantas
1287. Qantas "igloo" hangar under construction, Archerfield, 20 July 1943 / Qantas
1288. Maintenance staff servicing RAAF Sunderland, Rose Bay, Apr 1944 / Qantas
1289. Women "doping" Catalina wing, Rose Bay / Laurence le Guay
1290. Fergus McMaster (Chairman of QEA) arriving from London, Archerfield, 20 June 1934 / Courier-mail
1291. QEA passenger Noel Coward disembarks from DH 86A, Singapore / Qantas
1292. Passenger disembarks from DH-86A / Courier-mail
1293. Family on the Empire Flying Boat promenade deck / Qantas
1294. L to r;  Capt. L.J. Brain (Operations Manager), Capt. G.U. Allan (Scotty), Capt. P.J. Taylor / Qantas
1295. W. Arthur Baird and C.G. Grey at the SBAC's Show, Farnborough, 7 Sept 1949 / Air-Log
1296. Warriors in costume hold a "sing sing" to harden up the Mount Hagen runway, PNG / Qantas
1297. Capt. Denny demonstrates "bully beef bombing" from Lockheed Lodestar flown for US Army / Qantas
1298. QEA operated Liberator, Learmouth
1299. Catalina flying boat 2 (G-AGID) / Qantas
1300. Catalina flying boat 3 (G-AGID) / Qantas
1301. Fysh and party view map of the wartime Qantas route to Europe (longest non-stop leg, Perth-Colombo, over 24 hours) / Rob Hillier
1302. Fyshes and party with DH 86A, 1930's / Telegraph (Brisbane)
1303. Fyshes with DH 86A, 1930's / Telegraph (Brisbane)
1304-1305. BOAC Chairman Viscount Knollys with Fysh and party, Nedlands, 28 Feb 1944
1306. Fysh with unidentified person / SMH; Terry Gibson
1307. Fysh at presentation / SMH; Terry Gibson
1308. First of three Short S17 Kent flying boats, Scipio G-ABFA, Brindisi, Italy / Imperial Airways for Qantas
1309-1310. Liberator / Qantas
1311. USAF Liberator and Mustang, Qantas Igloo, Archerfield / E.H. Turner
1312. Dr Edith Summerskill, Mr J. Harris and Capt. Furze at departure of Catalina G-AGID, service 2Q74, 31 July 1934 / Sivyer's for Qantas
1313. Fysh is presented to the Duke of Gloucester, Brisbane / Telegraph (Brisbane)
1314. Timorese with pack animals
1315-1320. Supermarine biplane flying boat, Timor (?)
1321. Third QEA DH 86 VH-USG crash, near Longreach, 15 Nov 1934
1322. Pioneer flying passenger Mr Alexander Kennedy, his wife and other passengers in a DH 86

Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs considered for Qantas at war but not used, 1934-1945

Dutch expedition on Timor in the middle of the 17th century, ca. 1650-60

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