Antarctic vignettes III: Shackleton's AB- William Frederick Williams

• Published in: Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
• Main Author: Dartnall, HJG
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Royal Society of Tasmania; RST; Van Diemens Land; natural history; science; ecology; taxonomy; botany; zoology; geology; geography; papers & proceedings; Australia; UTAS Library; Antarctic; Nimrod; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13159/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13159/4/2009__Dartnall_Antarctic_vignettes.pdf

William Frederick Williams was bom in Tasmania in 1866. He joined Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition, signing on in the name of W. Williams, and served as an AB (Able Seaman) on the Steam Yacht Nimrod on her second voyage south (1908-09). On return to Tasmania he tried his hand at a variety of jobs before settling in the Lakes district of Tasmania as the manager of guest houses catering for trout fishermen in the 1920s. He retired to Lorne, Victoria, and died in Melbourne in 1964 aged 77.