Captain Jack Isbester

Hard down! Hard down!


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href="#ulink_950ab89e-b2df-5398-9016-6cb769c38b8d">Figure 5.3 Cumeria before and after shortening sail

       Figure 6.1 Olligarth House in 1916

       Figure 6.2 Susie Irvine, about the time of her wedding to John Isbester

       Figure 6.3 Magnus Irvine, on the left, ploughing with oxen

       Figure 6.4 John Isbester in his early years in command

       Figure 7.1 Barque Centaur at anchor with men working aloft

       Figure 7.2 Captain Isbester, on steps, with crew of the barque Centaur

       Figure 7.3 Magnus Irvine with granddaughter Kathleen

       Figure 7.4 Margaret Irvine with grandson Arthur

       Figure 9.1 San Francisco Harbour with Port Costa, Martinez and Mission 1

       Figure 9.2 Susie, with the family who stayed in Olligarth

       Figure 12.1 Sports Day programme

       Figure 12.2 Tug of war, watch v. watch

       Figure 12.3 Page 1 of a draft of Captain Isbester’s letter

       Figure 12.4 The approach of the barque Rossdhu to Gatico on 7 September 1898

       Figure 12.5 Gatico Cove, from BA chart 1301

       Figure 12.6 Gatico Cove, from BA chart 1301

       Figure 12.7 Rossdhu anchoring at Gatico Cove

       Figure 13.1 Ship Dalgonar at anchor off Seattle in 1895

       Figure 13.2 The forecastle, looking aft, with windlass and a rather dirty port anchor

       Figure 13.3 The Dalgonar saloon: Captain and Mrs Isbester with friend

       Figure 13.4 The steering position

       Figure 13.5 Mrs Isbester knitting on the poop, the chartroom in the background

       Figure 13.6 The figurehead

       Figure 13.7 Dalgonar’s bows and bowsprit

       Figure 13.8 A gathering in Sydney including Captain and Mrs Isbester

       Figure 14.1 The Dalgonar’s ship’s company. San Francisco, August 1903

       Figure 14.2 Kathleen and Arthur ready for the bush

       Figure 14.3 Captain Isbester in Sydney with family and friends

       Figure 14.4 Joe Chandler with Allan Isbester

       Figure 14.5 Norman Isbester at sea

       Figure 15. 1 Page 1 of Captain Isbester’s entry in the official log book

       Figure 15. 2 Allan and Norman with their three older siblings

       Figure 15. 3 At 24 Bengal Road, Susie with Allan and Norman both wearing the kilt

       Figure 16.1 Leaving Brunswick Dock, Liverpool

       Figure 16.2 Under tow

       Figure 16.3 Becalmed

       Figure 16.4 Alone

       Figure 16.5 Under full sail

       Figure 16.6 Washing the decks, port side, abreast the main hatch

       Figure 16.7 Dalgonar’s sails as labelled by Arnold Franz McJannet

       Figure 16.8 The view from the poop, looking forward, the sails drawing nicely

       Figure 16.9 Track from Liverpool to Martin Vass Rocks and the Greenwich Meridian

       Figure 16.10 Running the easting down: track from the Greenwich Meridian

       Figure 17.1 Water on deck – looking forward from near the entrance to the saloon

       Figure 17.2 Dressed for the weather

       Figure 17.3 Entering port after a stormy voyage

       Figure 18.1 Alexandra Dock, Hull, from Susie’s postcard

       Figure 18.2 The family about 1911.

       Figure 18.3 Lewis Davies, first mate

       Figure 18.4 Dalgonar, looking aft from a position on the foremast.

       Figure 18.5 Looking forward from a position on the mizzen mast

       Figure 18.6 Looking aft from the foremast

       Figure 18.7 The storm-scarred Dalgonar in Seattle

       Figure 18.8 Dalgonar at anchor, in process of unshipping topgallant masts

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