Albums of photographs of HMS Challenger cruise

Donated by Nares family [Captain George Nares led the expedition]

The Challenger expedition left Britain on the 7 December 1872, on the corvette HMS Challenger, and returned on 24 May 1876, travelling 68,890 nautical miles around the globe. The aim was a scientific one, taking soundings, dredging, trawling, and temperature observations, along with species discovery.

OD 257 Ionian islands - Captain Mansell 1866, Tay river, Captain Stanley 1876 - Humber Richards 1901, Halifax currents and remarks 1896 Australia to China routes Tizard 1874 (Challenger expeditions), Pacific islands, Captain Field 1898, Tonga Searches, Captain Field 1899, St. Kilda, Captain Somerville 1910

OD 273 HMS Challenger expedition, temperature curves Vol I

OD 86 Australia East Coast. Endeavour river to Cape York. Lieutenant Pirie and Henning. HMS Paluma 1890-1894, also Tides and Tidal Streams, Cape York, Albany Pass, HMS Challenger 1874. Captain Nares and Lieutenant Tizard

OD 345 Pacific - Samao, Ellice and Gilbert islands. Miscellaneous authors including Lieutenant Tanner USN also Nares, HMS Challenger

MLP 84a Papers relating to the Challenger expedition, 1872-1872, includes list of chart, books and scientific instruments on board Challenger

HTP 7/43 List of Scientific Instruments, Dredging and Sounding Apparatus on board HMS Challenger, 1873.

HTP 7/48 HMS Challenger No. 2 Report on Ocean Soundings and Temperatures Antarctic Sea, Australia, New Zealand 1874.

OD 219 South Indian Ocean - Kerguelen island, Captain Ross, HMS Terror 1840 and Nav Lieutenant Tizard HMS Challenger 1874; Heard and Macdonald islands, Tizard, HMS Challenger 1874; Crozet islands, Captain East HMS Comus 1880; Icebergs remarks Mr J T Towson 1859. Also a letter from Charles Wilkes USS Vincennes to Captain Ross

HTP 7/58 HMS Challenger No.6 Report on Ocean Soundings and Temperatures: Pacific Ocean 1875.

MLP Misc. Letters and Papers series.

HTP 7/47 HMS Challenger. Reports of Captain Nares with abstract of soundings and diagrams of Ocean Temperatures in North and South Atlantic Ocean, 1873.

OD 41 Magellan St [Strait]; Bradshaw HMS Calypso 1862, Connolly HMS Sutley 1863, Mayne Nassau 1867, Lecky SS Penguin 1872, Smith HMS Albatross 1875, Tizard Challenger 1876

MLP 84b Papers relating to the Challenger expedition, 1874-1876

OD 272 HMS Challenger - Sounding Book No. 4

OD 274 HMS Challenger expedition, temperature curves Vol II

OD 277 HMS Challenger expedition Remark Book, Vol II

HTP 7/53 HMS Challenger No. 4 Report on Ocean Soundings and Temperatures: China and adjacent Seas 1875.

OD 275 HMS Challenger expedition deep sea temperature observations

OD Original document series [sailing directions, sounding books, etc.]

OD 268 HMS Challenger - Sounding Book No. 1

HTP 7/54 Report to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty of the depths obtained in the Suez Canal by HM Surveying Ship SHEARWATER on passage through from Suez to Port Said, June 13 and 14 1875, by Commander W J L Wharton.

OD 267 HMS Challenger expedition. Hydrographic reports including soundings and temperatures [This is a printed book containing extracts of reports bound together]

HTP 7/51 HMS Challenger, No. 3 Report on Ocean Soundings and Temperatures. New Zealand to Torres Strait, Torres Strait to Manila and Hong Kong 1874.

HTP 7/61 HMS Challenger, No. 7 Report on Ocean Soundings and Temperatures, Atlantic Ocean 1876.

HTP 7/55 HMS Challenger, No. 5 Report on Ocean Soundings and Temperatures: Pacific Ocean 1875.

OD 271 HMS Challenger - Sounding Book No. 3

OD 783 Challenger Expedition, 1874: Catalogue of Boxes of Natural History specimen, sent from Cape of Good Hope; Catalogue of Boxes and Casks sent from Sydney; Catalogue of Boxes of Natural History specimens sent from Hong Kong. Some related letters are attached

HTP 7/HD ‘HD’ numbered series of publications

HTP 7/63 HMS Challenger. Contributions to the Meteorology of Japan by Staff Commander T H Tizard, 1876.

OD 276 HMS Challenger expedition Remark Book Vol I [This is a journal of the expedition giving details of each day's activity as it concerns the work of the expedition]

OD 270 HMS Challenger - Sounding Book No. 3

OD 325 Pacific Ocean, Temperatures of the sea. Remarks by Commander Tizard, HMS Challenger

OD 269 HMS Challenger - Sounding Book No. 2