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Maori children onboard HMS Penguin; between 1902 and 1905
HMS Penguin was an Osprey-class sloop. Launched on 1876, Penguin was operated by the Royal Navy from 1877 to 1881, then again from 1886 to 1889.
After being converted to a survey vessel, Penguin was recommissioned in 1890, and operated until 1908 commenced service on the Australia Station in 1890 and undertook survey work around the Western Pacific islands, New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef. From 1896 to 1899 she was under the command of Captain Arthur Mostyn Field and her surveying work included deep borings on Funafuti atoll. She was demasted and transferred to the Australian Commonwealth Naval Forces for use as a depot and training ship in Sydney Harbour.
After this force became the Royal Australian Navy, the sloop was commissioned as HMAS Penguin in 1913. Penguin remained in naval service until 1924, when she was sold off and converted into a floating crane. The vessel survived until 1960, when she was broken up and burnt.
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Above: Across the Salt Marshes, Huntington, 1905, Edward Steichen
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Evening
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;
and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;
and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.
.Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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