watercolourist and master mariner, was master of the Socrates , which visited Portland, Victoria in about 1836. There he painted a watercolour, View of Portland Bay (LT), inscribed on the back:
View of Portland Bay shewing the anchorage bringing the Huts to bear about S.W. & about half a mile from shore will give you five & a half fathom water of a good holding ground Commencing from the Lawrence Island to the Eastward and ending to the Westward at about the head of the Bay. Portland Bay is about 19 miles across affording a bold show on the other side—The “Socraty” Brig rode out an Easterly Gale for seven days during which time she was riding by one anchor. My opinion of Portland Bay is that it is a very superior anchorage. George Jackson Master Brig Socraty.
Jackson was married to Jane Douglass on 19 October 1847.
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- 1992
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- 2011
