amateur photographer and seaman, joined HMS Impregnable as second master on 17 October 1860 when the ship was stationed at Devonport, Tasmania. A year later he became second master on board HMS Pelorus , then served in 1863-66 on HMS Cura çoa under Captain William Saltonstall Wiseman , being promoted master in 1865. A photograph, Craft built by Mr R.H. Edmunds as It Lay at Escape Cliffs, Taken by Lieut Guy RN (Mortlock Library), was taken in 1866 while Guy was on a surveying expedition in northern Australia aboard the British survey schooner Beatrice . The captain noted in his report in September that the natives on the east side of the Liverpool River had attacked Guy while he was on shore making observations for the survey. Some of Guy’s photographs from this expedition were reputedly reproduced in the Illustrated London News . Between 1866 and 1869 he was navigating lieutenant on the corvette HMS Challenger under Captain Rowley Lambert (see Helen Lambert ).

Although photographs taken on most of these voyages are known, only those from the Beatrice can be specifically identified as Guy’s. He may have been responsible for an album of photographs taken during the voyage of the Pelorus to Fiji, Tonga, the New Hebrides and New Zealand in 1861 (see 'C.B.C.’) and he probably took some of the large collection of Cura çoa photographs that Wiseman exhibited in Sydney. Guy was not, however, the sole photographer on board. A professional photographer called Kerr (or Carr) was employed for the Cura çoa 's voyage to the South Seas in 1865. Guy died at Adelaide in 1869 and was buried in North Road Cemetery, South Australia.

Writers:

Staff Writer

Date written:

1992

Last updated:

2011