Captain Doorly's Antarctic Supply Mission Sketch in Autograph Book

Captain James Gerald Stokely Doorly (1880 - 1956), a full page pencil & ink illustration titled 'Transporting stores over the frozen sea to the 'Discovery': Lat.77'50 S. Long. 166'25 E: G. Doorly. 26.4.02' (overall 16.5 x 22.5 cm)., the sketch occupies a page in an autograph/sketch book which was the property of Myra Montague and which she initiated in October 1901 with a sketch of her own. The next sketch is titled 'The head of lake Wakatipu' by A.M.Montague, followed by an autograph of C.Cecil Spedding (collected at Puketeraki, near Dunedin in January 1903), a 'Louis Wain'-like cat by M. Scrimgeour titled 'Break-up Day', then several signatures and a small sketch by J. Blondford dated 26/4/03 at Dunedin. It is this small sketch which faces Dooly's, which is dated for the day on which the supply party arrived at the ship. (S.Y. 'Morning' was in New Zealand at the time). Several later pages also carry sketches by Leslie D. Coombs ('Mark Hambourg') and others., Doorly, master mariner and author, was born at port of Spain, Trinidad. He was educated at Queen's Royal College, Trinidad, and from 1894 in the Thames nautical training College, H.M.S. Worcester, for the mercantile marine. A fellow cadet and friend was E. R. G. R. Evans (later Admiral Lord Mountevans). Doorly graduated Queen's gold medallist in 1897, served his apprenticeship in sail and in 1901-02 did troop-and hospital-ship work with the Peninsular & Oriental steam navigation Co. In the South African war., in 1902-04 Doorly and Evans served together as junior officers in the S.Y. Morning, the supply ship to Captain R. F. Scott's Discovery, of the National Antarctic Expedition. Doorly was awarded the polar Service Medal for his work in the morning, which freed the Discovery from her ice-bound anchorage. Doorly had gained his mate's certificate in Hobart in December 1903 and his master's certificate in London a year later. After a few months with the West India mail service, in 1905 he joined the Union steam ship Co. Of New Zealand and lived the rest of his life there., Doorly also published an account of the 1902-04 expedition, 'In the Wake', to show that Scott's life was as worthy of fame as his heroic death. A copy of that book, with a foreword by Evans, accompanies the sketch book.