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A Guide and Index to Ship Registers in Colonial Australia
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Lists every known vessel registered in the various colonial ports up till 1875 together with an explanation as to how readers may discover the full details.
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Abeona and the Hawson Family
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A history of the Hawson family and the vessel 'Abeona', a brigantine which Henry Hawson became one of the registered owners.
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Across the Pacific: Liners from Australian and New Zealand to North America
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For just over a hundred years there was a regular passenger liner service across the Pacific connecting Australia and New Zealand with the west coast of North America. With his usual meticulous research, Peter Plowman describes the liners that traversed the Pacific and companies that owned and managed them ...
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Australian Coastal Passenger Ships
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Coastal passenger steamers in Australian waters provided, for many years, the only means of transport between major centres of population, and even when the railways began to link some of ...
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Australian Cruise Ships
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This book provides details of many of the ships that cruised out of Australian ports from the early 1970s up to 2000, and all the cruise ships to have been seen in local waters since 2001.
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Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977
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Peter Plowman's book 'Emigrant Ships to Luxury Liners' was published in 1992, and sold steadily until 2004, when supplies were exhausted. Rather than reprint that book, he decided ...
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Australian Sea Stories
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The author has concentrated on segments of the lesser known shipping history such as shipwrecks of the following: Duncan Dunbar, Walter Hood, Paul Jones, Glaneuse, Errol, Tahiti, Wahine, Sygna, Lake ...
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Australian Shipwrecks: Volume 4 1901-1986
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This volume of 'Australian Shipwrecks' completes the first attempt to compile a comprehensive record of ships lost in Australian waters; commenced in 172 by the late Charles Bateson, then continued ...
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Australian Shipwrecks: Volume 5 Update 1622-1990
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To readers who supported the four published editions of 'Australian Shipwrecks', and requested an update, the author has done this for you, and with that presents the last ...
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Australian Shipwrecks: Volume 6 The Australia Run
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The development of the new colonies of Australian and New Zealand is nurtured by the sea, commencing with arrival of the first convicts and free emigrants. Tales of tedious voyages ...
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Bay Steamers and Coastal Ferries
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In addition to ferries and excursion vessels, many small passenger and cargo ships worked out of Port Phillip Bay along the coast before rail and roads took over.P Written by ...
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Beach Boats, Press Boats and Semaphore
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Capes and Captains: A Comprehensive Study of the Australian Coast
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Ignorance is human fate. And yet, at all times, humans searching for knowledge have reached out beyond the expanding horizon shielding the unknown. In the middle of the ...
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Doctors at Sea: Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia
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As well as their medical and supervisory duties, especially in relation to children and nursing mothers, we see doctors presiding over courts of law on board as they ...
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Early Steam Ships in Australia
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An investigation of the arrival and development of steam ships in Australian waters from 1830 to the 1850s.
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H.M.S. Buffalo
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The CD book on 'H.M.S Buffalo' tells the history of vessel, and of its varied life in the types of passengers carried: emigrants, troops, convicts and government officials ... all of which have left records ...
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His Majesty's Bark Endeavour: The Story of the Ship and Her People
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The 'Endeavour's' incredible voyage of scientific and geographic discovery (1768-1771) has been a source of fascination to the world ever since the ship returned to port. This book tells the ...
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HMAS Sydney (II)
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The fate of HMAS Sydney (II), last sighted just before Christmas in 1941 following a battle with a German raider, has been Australia's most enduring maritime mysteries. Then on 16 March 2009 her wreckage was discovered, resolving much of the 67-year-old uncertainty and controversy surrounding the disappearance of the ship and the 674...
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Life and Death in the Age of Sail: The Passage to Australia
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Throughout the nineteenth century, about 750,000 government-assisted emigrants crossed the world from the United Kingdom to Australia. They travelled around 15,000 miles, usually without stopping en route, sometime in cramped ...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Navigator in the South Seas
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The violent reality of screaming hurricanes and the paradisal calm of South Seas beaches, glistening with spindrift, are engagingly contrasted by Brett Hilder in his book of adventures along the ...
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Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land
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Published in 1889, this book contains useful information and travelling tips to intending passengers sailing to Australia and New Zealand aboard steam ships of The Orient Line ...
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Paddle Steamers of Australia and New Zealand: Harbours, Coastal Rivers and Ocean Going
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The introduction to this guide gives a general overview of the start of Paddle Steamers in both Australia (in 1831) and New Zealand (early 1850s). The rest of the book ...
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Richard Siddins of Port Jackson
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'Richard Siddins of Port Jackson' is a well researched account of the part played by one of the early (and best known) merchant sea captains sailing out of ...
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Scuttled and Abandoned Ships in Australian Waters
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Seagulls, Cruisers and Catapults: the Story of Australian Naval Aviation 1913-1944
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In 'Seagulls, Cruisers and Catapults' Ray Jones has written an authoritative account of the technical, operational and political aspects of Australian naval aviation from Admiral Creswell's 1913 plan for naval ...
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Settlers Under Sail
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Settler's Under Sail' is Don Charlwood's account of the days of the sailing ships and a fascinating reconstruction of the wreck of the Loch Ard.p On 31 May 1878, the Loch ...
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Shipping Losses and Casualties Concerning Australia and New Zealand
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This two volume book set is concerned with shipping casualties involving wrecks (total loss) or serious damage to ships owned in Australia or New Zealand, no matter where they occurred, ...
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Shipping Losses and Casualties Concerning Australia and New Zealand
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This book is concerned with shipping casualties involving wrecks (total loss) or serious damage to ships owned in Australia or New Zealand, no matter where they occurred, together with accidents ...
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Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775-1861
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An 'arrivals, departures and speakings at sea' list of all references from Lloyd's List to vessels trading to and from the Pacific Islands, mostly whaling, in the period indicated. Indexed ...
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Ships of Australia and New Zealand Before 1850
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The register details of every ship known to have been enrolled in an Australian or NZ port before 1850 plus some additional information, mainly about the fate of the vessels.
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Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish Quest for the Mysterious Great South Land
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In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Baez de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait ...
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The 1863 Shipboard Diary of Edward Charlwood from England to Australia
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Edward Charlwood, whose 1863 shipboard diary this is, was the fourth son of Arthur and Phoebe Charlwood. Having emigrated in 1850 from England to Australia with his family as a ...
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend.
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The Brothers Taylor: A Tasmanian Maritime History
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Last century shipping was the life-blood of the Tasmanian colony. It was the means by which local production was distributed around the island as well as to mainland and wider ...
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The Convict Ships 1787-1868
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Originally published in 1959, 'The Convict Ships' has been accepted by historians and scholars as the standard work on the subject. This Australian edition, which follows the revised ...
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The Long Farewell: The Perilous Voyages of Settlers Under Sail in the Great Migrations to Australia
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During the 19th century more than a million people, many of whom had never ventured beyond their homes in Britain, sailed to the new colonies of Australia. On their months-long ...
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The Search for the 'Sydney': How Australia's Greatest Maritime Mystery Was Solved
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Here, for the first time, David Mearns, the shipwreck hunter who found her, tells the full six year, dramatic story of his search for two ships, Sydney and Kormoran, whose paths crossed one fateful day in 1941.
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The Ships of Burns, Philp and Company
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This publication is mainly concerned with the ships owned and operated by the firm Burns, Philp & Co. from 1883 until 1970 when the parent firm vacated the shipbuilding field.
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The Voyage of their Life: The Story of the S.S. Derna and its Passengers
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On a sultry Summer's day in August 1948, 545 passengers boarded an overcrowded clapped-out vessel in Marseilles with light suitcases and heavy hearts, leaving behind their familiar world ...
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Two Voyages to the South Seas: Dumont D'urville
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Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) was one of the greatest navigators of the heroic days of sail, yet his two epic voyages remain virtually unknown to English speaking countries.
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Whalemen of Twofold Bay
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Wreckers, Smugglers and Pirates in South Eastern Australian Waters
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