David Ashworth, a survivor of the "General Grant"

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David Ashworth, a survivor of the "General Grant"

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Studio portrait of  David Ashworth, one of 10 survivors of the General Grant, a ship filled with gold that was wrecked off the Auckland group of sub-Antarctic islands. The survivors were shipwrecked for 18 months on a deserted island before being rescued. David Ashworth drowned three years later on a return expedition trying to retrieve the gold from the sunken wreck of the General Grant.

Format

Image

Date created

circa 1875

Creator

Charles Hewitt

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/273410

Related subjects

Men / Beards / Staffs (Sticks) / Hides & skins / Fur garments / David Ashworth / silver / printing-out paper / albumen / cartes-de-visite / albumen prints / black-and-white prints / portraits / Shipwrecks / Auckland Islands / Australia

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