Selected Articles—H.M.V.S. Cerberus and the Defence of the Colony of Victoria
Author: first_name: John
last_name: Donaldson
first_name: Alexander Muir
last_name: Houston
first_name: James
last_name: Jasper
first_name: William
last_name: Jervois
first_name: Donald
last_name: Macdonald
first_name: Colebrooke Thomas
last_name: Mandeville
first_name: Kynaston Lathrop
last_name: Murray
first_name: William Henry
last_name: Panter
first_name: Henry
last_name: Schaw
first_name: Edward Henry
last_name: Stanley
first_name: Alan Broderick
last_name: Thomas
first_name: George
last_name: Tryon
first_name: Carl Ludwig Julius
last_name: Wagemann
first_name: John Crawford
last_name: Wilson
Language: English
Year: 1926

In terms of population, in terms of development and in terms of wealth, Victoria boomed in the 1850s and 1860s due to the Gold Rush. Undeniably, the colony had money to burn. Surprise port visits by the Russian corvette Bogatyr and the Confederate warship Shenandoah in the 1860s awakened in Victoria a deep sense of vulnerability, and Victorians set their minds to a new domestic project – a decades long pursuit of security.

That effort would ultimately give rise to extensive coastal fortificat