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Official Ship Name SY Aurora Call sign Expedition capacity Crew capacity Fuel type Fuel capacity Characteristics Length (overall) 50 m Breadth (overall) 9.3 m Draft (overall) 5.72 m Gross tonnage 380 tonnes Normal sea speed knots Ice Class Capabilities Other comments Launched in 1876, its was powered by a Compound Steam Engine (98 bhp)

©Jonothan Davis Collection. 1913 Catalogue id 10140D6 Caption This photo was taken on November 18th or 19th 1913, just prior the departure of the ship on the 3rd voyage of the AAE to Commonwealth Bay, to collect Douglas Mawson after his epic sledge traverse. The code flag "P" (Blue Peter) is flying at top of foremast indicating that the ship is about to leave. She departed at 10:30am on November 19th. The Aurora was laid up in Hobart over the winter of 1913, where she under went a refit whilst John King Davis was in England, raising funds for the extra third voyage to recover Mawson. [see note page 70 TRIAL BY ICE: THE ANTARCTIC JOURNALS OF JOHN KING DAVIS] W J Little was a Hobart photographer and postcard publisher of 9 Liverpool Street Hobart. [Scanned from Glassplate negative held in Jonothan Davis Collection] Photographer Little, W.J.

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