Mariners Are Warned!

John Lort Stokes and "H. M. S. Beagle" in Australia 1837-1843

By: Marsden Hordern

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First full account of the third and last great hydrographic survey of the Australian coastline undertaken by the British Hydrographic Office.

John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office in 1837 to survey and chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline. He was the last Royal Navy surveyor to hold such a roving commission-as had Matthew Flinders and Phillip Parker King before him. The voyage lasted six years and his ship was H.M.S. Beagle, of Charles Darwin fame.

Stokes circumnavigated Australia twice. In the north he discovered the Fitzroy, Albert and Flinders rivers and Port Darwin, and in the south charted that graveyard of sailing ships, Bass Strait. A century later, twelve of his charts were still in use.

The occasional breathtaking foolhardiness of this earnest and conscientious man startles the reader, as it must have done his men. On a whim, Stokes twice risked drowning himself and others with him, and he made several daredevil escapes from crocodiles.

The stories are gripping, and Marsden Hordern is a gifted and vigorous storyteller. He is ably assisted by the ship's mate, Helpman-a chatty, witty chronicler. Mariners are Warned! is an engrossing biography, written with empathy by a fellow mariner.

Winner of the Age Book of the Year; Victorian Premier's Literary Award (A. A. Phillips Award for Australian Studies); Braille Book of the Year; Australian Maritime History Prize.

Companion volume to King of the Australian Coast, another prize-winning maritime biography by the same author.

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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Lieutenant Stokes, Assistant Surveyor
Prelude to the Voyage	p. 9
To the Land of Promise	p. 19
Hopes Deferred	p. 32
In Dampier's Wake	p. 41
Mangroves, Mud and Misery	p. 60
Soldiers in Trouble	p. 75
The Southern Ocean	p. 92
Sydney Society	p. 103
Bass Strait	p. 120
North of Capricorn	p. 141
The River Hunters	p. 156
Darwin Remembered	p. 167
'A noble river'	p. 175
Shadows of Death	p. 198
Houtman's Abrolhos, Timor and the Montebellos	p. 212
Return to Sydney	p. 232
Commander Stokes, Captain of the Beagle
New Captain for the Beagle	p. 247
In Flinders's Wake	p. 255
Stokes Plays Politics	p. 271
The Tasmanian Connection	p. 279
Heading for Home	p. 300
Epilogue	p. 305
Admiralty Instructions for the Voyage	p. 310
The Beagle and Her Equipment	p. 321
Helpman and His Journals	p. 329
Conversions	p. 332
Notes	p. 333
Bibliography	p. 343
Index	p. 349
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Mariners Are Warned!

John Lort Stokes and "H. M. S. Beagle" in Australia 1837-1843

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