page_title: HMS Basilisk (1848)
section_title: Foreign Service
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Basilisk (1848) / Foreign Service
caption_attribution_description: English: HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874. Inscribed on back of drawing: “HMS ‘Basilisk’, Captain John Moresby 1871. 28th May [1874]. In Threshold Bay, New Guinea. Anchored off a delicious little cove of this large open Bay – The Rajah of Salwatti who is supreme ruler came off to visit us in a large prahu rowed by about 20 men”. See Moresby's "Discoveries &amp; Surveys in New Guinea..." (John Murray, 1876), Chapter XVIII, for this incident.
context_page_description: HMS Basilisk was a first-class paddle sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 22 August 1848.
context_section_description: After the Crimean War, she served on the North America and West Indies Station and afterwards on the China Station and in Japan. In March 1871 she commenced service on the Australia Station. The Basilisk under Captain John Moresby visited the Ellice Islands in July 1872.
  She undertook hydrographic surveys around New Guinea with Captain Moresby and made a number of discoveries. She was later used for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific.
  She left the Australia Station in 1874 and returned to England.
caption: HMS 'Basilisk', anchored in Threshold Bay, New Guinea, 28 May 1874
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