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Victorian Naval Forces Muster

for the Colony of Victoria. (muster range 1853-1910)*

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Last Name:Thompson
First Name:John
Rank:Lieutenant Engineer
Birth Date:
Branch:Naval Brigade

John Thompson

Lieutenant Engineer

 

"John Thompson, Lieutenant Engineer from Paisley, Scotland. A member of Victoria's first [sic] Naval Brigade during the 1880s under Captain Fullerton [sic]. He later became an engineer in the SS [sic] Lady Loch, a lighthouse service vessel for the Victorian and South Australian coasts.

He also saw service in the Countess of Hopetoun and Childers torpedo boat destroyers [sic]. Pneumonia caused his death in 1892, and he is buried in the Williamstown cemetery.

Original photo by courtesy of the late Samuel Palmerston Brown, who died September 1980, aged 95 years. Mr Brown, who lived his later years in Hastings, Victoria, was the second white child born in Darwin, then known as Palmerston. He was also a marine engineer and nephew of John Thompson.

Enlargement by courtesy of photographer, HMAS Cerberus, Crib Point."

Above notes and accompanying photograph courtesy of the Maritime Museum of Victoria and Seaworks, Williamstown.

 


Listed in the Victorian Defence Forces List 1 September 1887.

Listed in the Victorian Defence Forces List, Naval Branch, 1 January 1890.


* 1853 is given as the commencement date for the Victorian Navy as this is the year that Commander Lockyer (RN) went to Britain to superintend the building of HMCS Victoria.
Although the Victorian Navy ended in 1901 the career of Cerbeus etc continued. In 1910 the new ships started arriving & manning levels increased.

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