Graham Gore

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His grandfather sailed with Cook and his father with Bligh. It was almost inevitable that Gore would also be a seafarer. He is said to have made at least 10 plates used in J. Lort Stokes' 'Discoveries in Australia...in the Years 1837-43.'
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sketcher and naval officer, provided many of the original sketches for J. Lort Stokes ' Discoveries in Australia…in the Years 1837-43 . Gore came from a seafaring family, his grandfather having sailed with Cook and his father with Bligh . Entering the Royal Navy on 27 April 1820, he was first lieutenant aboard HMS Volage at the capture of Aden (1839) and of the Bogue forts and Chusan during the early part of the Chinese War (1840). In 1841 he was ordered to sail from India to Sydney to join HMS Herald , but the vessel he was to board had already departed, so in April Gore joined the Beagle under Stokes’ command. His name appears on ten of the plates in Discoveries , including Killing an Alligator, Victoria River , First View of the Plains of Promise, Albert River and Burial Reach, Flinders River . An original oil painting of the last is in the National Library of Australia. Gore returned to England at the end of the voyage, in 1843. In 1845 he joined HMS Erebus under Sir John Franklin, former Governor of Van Diemen’s Land. Promoted commander in 1846 he continued to serve aboard Erebus , dying in the Arctic with the rest of the crew in 1847 on Franklin’s ill-fated expedition in search of the north-west passage.

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1992
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2011

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