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1862 Immigrants and Crew Index
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A Guide and Index to Ship Registers in Colonial Australia
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A Pioneer Australian Steamship Company: A History of the Hunters River Steam Navigation Company and the Australasian Steam Navigation Company
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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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An Era at Port Phillip Heads 1830-1900
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Australia's Shipwreck Coast and Other Stories
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Australian Coastal Passenger Ships
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Australian Cruise Ships
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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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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 1: North Coast Steam Navigation Co.
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 10: Vessels Enrolled At Melbourne to the End of 1859
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 11: Vessels Enrolled At Launceston 1830-59
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 12: Hobart to 1859 A-L
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 13: Hobart to 1859 M-Z
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 14: Ships Registered at Port Adelaide 1838-1869
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 15: Sydney During the 1850s A-L
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Vessels that were enrolled at Sydney during the 1850s.
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 16: Sydney During the 1850s M-Z
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Vessels that were enrolled at Sydney during the 1850s.
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 17: Huddart Family and Parker of Geelong and Melbourne
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 18: Vessels Enrolled At Brisbane From 1851 Till Mid 1880s
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Australian Shipowners and their Fleets Book 19: Vessels Enrolled at Sydney Between 1860 and 1875 A-H
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 2: Northern Rivers of New South Wales
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Australian Shipowners and their Fleets Book 20: Vessels Enrolled at Sydney Between 1860 and 1875 I-Z
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 21: Ships Registered at Melbourne 1860-1875 A-L
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The first in a set of two volumes covering the ships that were registered at Melbourne for the period 1860-1875, this book covers owners names from A-L.P Listed alphabetically by ...
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 22: Ships Registered at Melbourne 1860-1875 M-Z
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 23: Amendments to Previous Books and Some Post-1875 Additions A-K
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 24: Amendments to Previous Books and Some Post-1875 Additions L-Z
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 3: Owners Registering Ships in Newcastle
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 4: Concluding Newcastle Shipowners
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 5: Early Australian Owners
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 6: Vessels Enrolled At Sydney 1830-1840
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 7: Vessels Enrolled At Sydney 1841-1849
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 8: Vessels Enrolled Melbourne 1839-1854
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 9: Vessels Enrolled At Melbourne Up to 1859
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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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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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Bitter Victory: The Death of HMAS Sydney
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At 1340 on 11 September 1941, Armistice Day, HMAS 'Sydney' sailed from Fremantle on a routine escort mission. 'Sydney' should have returned on the afternoon on 20 November, but the ...
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Bound for South Australia: Births and Deaths on Government-Assisted Immigrant Ships 1848-1885
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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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Captain Bligh's Second Chance: An Eyewitness Account of his Return to the South Seas
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Here is the intriguing and unfamiliar story of Captain Bligh's second voyage to the South Pacific, commenced in 1791, only one year after his return to England following the infamous mutiny on the 'Bounty'.
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Captain Cook: The Life, Death and Legacy of History's Greatest Explorer
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Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds
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Cargo for the Colony: The 1797 Wreck of the Merchant Ship 'Sydney Cove'
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Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the 'Zuytdorp'
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The 'Zuytdorp', one of the great ships of the Dutch East India Company, disappeared without trace after leaving Cape Town in 1712, en route to Batavia (Jakarta). The ship was carrying a rich cargo, including some 250,000 guilders in silver coins.
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Coals by Ship From Newcastle: the '60 Milers and Other Colliers
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Records the details of all known steamships regularly employed in the delivery of coal from the Hunter Region to Sydney by sea. There is also an examination of the development ...
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Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753-1782
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Daniel Solander, the 18th century Swedish naturalist and traveller was a pioneer of the scientific study of natural history and one of the earliest collectors in New Holland.P For many ...
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Deaths on Emigrant Vessels to South Australia 1849-1865
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Destination Never Reached: New South Wales Shipwrecks
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The final book in a trilogy on New South Wales shipwrecks, 'Destination Never Reached' covers the events leading up to some of the State's most tragic shipwrecks. Using ...
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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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Embers on the Sea: The Empire Patrol Disaster 1945
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The conflagration which destroyed the 'Empire Patrol' after World War II took with it more than just the lives of many Greek refugees. For most of the survivors, ...
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Encounter Bay Shipping 1850-1864
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This book contains information on the shipping movements to the South Australian South Coast area during to working life of Port Elliot. Covers Rosetta Cove, Victor Harbor, Port Elliot and the Murray Mouth.
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Exploring the South Land: Tasmania Emerges from Terra Australis Incognita
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This book documents, by means of a sequence of historical maps, the emergence of knowledge over 400 years from the time that the navigators began probing south, until the current outline of Tasmania ...
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Fatal Lights: Two Strange Tragedies of the Sea
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Ferry to Tasmania: A Short History
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Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia
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Two hundred years ago, in the romantic age of exploration, Matthew Flinders became the first to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline. Rob Mundle's 'Flinders' brings to life the fascinating story of this exceptional maritime explorer - from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his imprisonment
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Free Passengers to New South Wales 1826-1837: Passengers, Crew and Military (Private Use)
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The first in a series being published which will cover free shipping to New South Wales to 1842. This CD contains nearly 36,000 names of passengers, military and crew on passenger ships, whalers and trading vessels between 1826 to 1837. Searchable on a number of fields including name, year of arrival, occupation, regiment, ...
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Free Passengers to New South Wales 1826-1837: Passengers, Crew and Military (Public Use)
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Fremantle Register of Ships Before 1900
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The information contained in this volume has been compiled using the Register of British Ships in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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Geelong Customs Register of Ships: Vessels Registered at the Port of Geelong, Victoria before 1900
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This title originally produced in 1969, has been reprinted with minor additions 2003. Nothing from the original volume has been deleted, but some information such as official numbers, name of ...
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Greycliffe: Stolen Lives
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On the afternoon of 3 November 1927, Sydney was rocked by the news of the worst disaster on its picturesque harbour - the ferry 'Greycliffe' has just been run down ...
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H.M.S. Buffalo
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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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Humin Hopes: The 1855 Diary of Charles Moore, English Immigrant to Australia on the 'Constitution'
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With 'humin hopes' of a better life, the newly married Charles and Louisa Moore set sail for Australia in 1855 on the emigrant ship 'Constitution'. In a moving ...
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Ill-Starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin
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Amid the Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), France and Britain dispatched rival voyages of discovery to complete the mapping of Australia and 'advance the limits of science'. Led by naval captains Nicolas ...
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Inland Rivers Revisited
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Following the release of the each edition of the 'Ships of the Inland Rivers' the author received a large number of correspondence, offering additional information on ships that were listed, and others that weren't. Those that were able to be verified have been included in this new book ...
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Islands of Angry Ghosts, Murder, Mayhem and Mutiny: The Story of the Batavia
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In 1629, the Dutch East India merchantman, the 'Batavia' was recked on reef islands off the West Australian coast while on a routine trip to Indonesia. What followed this disaster ...
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Ketches of South Australia 1836-1970
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History of their development together with the full register of all small sailing ships unrolled in Port Adelaide customs.
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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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Lighthouses of South Australia
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Manly Ferries of Sydney Harbour: the Seven Mile Ships
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Migrant Sailing Ships From Hamburg
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This small book gives full details of all sailing ships from Hamburg known to have brought passengers to Australia. Extensive list of arrival dates to Australian ports. Please note: this does not include passenger lists, just information on the vessels themselves ...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Navigator in the South Seas
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Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land
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Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775-1861
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Ships of Australia and New Zealand Before 1850
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Ships of The Inland Rivers
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Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish Quest for the Mysterious Great South Land
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The Brothers Taylor: A Tasmanian Maritime History
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The Navy in South Australia
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The story of the ill fated Empress of Ireland seems some how to have been largely overshadowed by the similar ill fate of the Titanic but here is a book ...
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The Vanished Fleet of the Sydney Coastline
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This book recreates the events leading up to the loss of 15 shipwrecks in the Sydney and Illawarra region. The book documents many remarkable stories of survival, court room dramas, ...
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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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The Watermen of Sydney: Memories of a Working Harbour
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Our Price: AU$34.95 Inc GST
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For more than 200 years Sydeny's Port Jackson, Australia's oldest port, was a magnificent port for the service and support of commercial and naval shipping. During the last decade or ...
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The Wreck of the Barque Stefano on the North-West Cape of Australia in 1875
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An extraordinary drama of shipwreck and survival, 'The Wreck of the Barque Stefano' is a true story with all the ingredients of classic adventure fiction. This Croatian vessel ...
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The Wreck of the Sailing Ship 'Netherby': A Miracle of Survival
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Our Price: AU$15.50 Inc GST
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The author, Don Charlwood, is well known for his publications on shipwrecks off the Victorian coast, and other titles relating to war and maritime history. In this book, he has ...
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The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships
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Our Price: AU$29.95 Inc GST
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A fine shipwreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure, and in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. Though it is the Cornish who ...
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They Came Direct: Immigrant Boats Direct to the Port of Wide Bay: Ariadne 1862
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Our Price: AU$16.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Hamburg Liverpool 5 June 1862, arrived Hervey's Bay 5 October 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Also includes b&w ...
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They Came Direct: Immigrant Boats Direct to the Port of Wide Bay: Gloucester 1873
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List Price AU$16.50 Inc GST Stock Clearance Price AU$11.50 Inc GST You save AU$5.00!
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 20 March 1873, arrived Maryborough 11 July 1873). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Also includes b&w photos.
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They Came Direct: Immigrant Boats Direct to the Port of Wide Bay: Prince Consort 1864
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Our Price: AU$16.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 13 December 1863, departed Gravesend 16 December 1863, arrived Hervey's Bay 30 March 1864). Details come from official, newspaper and other ...
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They Came Direct: Immigrant Boats Direct to the Port of Wide Bay: Reichstag 1871
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Our Price: AU$16.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Hamburg 12 November 1870, arrived Hervey's Bay 4 March 1871). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger ...
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They Came Direct: Immigrant Boats Direct to the Port of Wide Bay: Reichstag 1873
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Our Price: AU$16.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Hamburg 14 April 1873, arrived Maryborough 18 July 1873). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, ...
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They Came Direct: Immigrant Boats Direct to the Port of Wide Bay: Shakespeare 1871
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Hamburg 21 March 1871, arrived Hervey's Bay 3 August 1871). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Boats Direct to the Port of Wide Bay: Reichstag 1873
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Our Price: AU$22.99 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Hamburg 14 April 1873, arrived Maryborough 18 July 1873). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, and age.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Beejapore 1863
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Our Price: AU$33.99 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Gravesend 5 March 1863, departure Queenstown 25 March 1863, arrived Moreton Bay 21 July 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, martital status, age, and nationality, as well as a crew list ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Caesar Godeffroy 1862
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Our Price: AU$16.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Hamburg 26 October 1861, departed Cuxhaven 1 November 1861, arrived Brisbane 30 January 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Cairngorm 1863
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Our Price: AU$29.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 22 March 1863, departed Greenock 27 March 1863, arrived Brisbane 2 July 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age, and nationality.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Chatsworth 1862
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Our Price: AU$29.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 5 April 1862, departed Queenstown 9 April 1862, arrived Brisbane 6 August 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: City of Brisbane 1862
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Our Price: AU$26.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Gravesend 21 February 1862, departed Plymouth 25 February 1862, arrived Brisbane 28 June 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Clifton 1862
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Our Price: AU$16.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Plymouth 29 December 1861, arrived Brisbane 9 April 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: David McIvor 1863
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Our Price: AU$26.99 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 19 March 1863, arrived Hervey's Bay 9 July 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, and age, as well as crew lists.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Duke of Newcastle 1862
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Our Price: AU$26.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 11 September 1862, departed Queenstown 16 September 1862, arrived Moreton Bay 31 December 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age, occupation and nationality as well as crew lists.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Erin-go-Bragh 1862
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Our Price: AU$16.50 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Queenstown 9 January 1862, arrived Brisbane 2 August 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Everton 1863
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Our Price: AU$26.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Birkenhead 4 November 1862, arrived Moreton Bay 17 February 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age, occupation and nationality as well as crew lists.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Fiery Star 1863
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List Price AU$26.00 Inc GST Stock Clearance Price AU$18.50 Inc GST You save AU$7.50!
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Gravesend 11 August 1863, departed Cork 19 August 1863, arrived Moreton Bay 21 November 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Fiery Star 1863
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Our Price: AU$33.99 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Gravesend 11 August 1863, departure Cork 19 August 1863, arrived Moreton Bay 21 November 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age, and nationality.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Flying Cloud 1863
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Our Price: AU$29.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 4 October 1862, departed Plymouth 10 October 1862, arrived Moreton Bay 5 January 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age, and nationality.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Gloucester 1873
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Our Price: AU$21.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 20 March 1873, arrived Maryborough 11 July 1873). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name and age.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Golden City 1863
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Our Price: AU$28.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 3 December 1862, departed Cork 13 December 1862, arrived Moreton Bay 5 March 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, status, age, and nationality. Images of all known documents relating to this voyage have been
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Golden Dream 1863
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Our Price: AU$31.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 12 February 1863, departed Queenstown 18 February 1863, arrived Moreton Bay 28 May 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, status, age, and nationality. Images of all known documents relating to this voyage
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Golden Empire 1863
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Our Price: AU$26.99 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 4 April 1863, departed Queenstown 14 April 1863, arrived Brisbane 21 July 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age and nationality as well as crew lists. Images of all known documents relating to this voyage have been included.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Hannah More 1863
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Our Price: AU$30.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 13 January 1863, departed Bristol 9 February 1863, arrived Moreton Bay 23 June 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. IIncludes a crew list, as well as a passenger list with surname, first name, age ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Helenslee 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Glasgow 16 April 1862, arrived Brisbane 9 August 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Jessie Munn 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Plymouth 26 October 1861, arrived Brisbane 30 January 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: La Rochelle 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Hamburg 28 April 1862, arrived Brisbane 30 July 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Light Brigade 1863
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List Price AU$26.00 Inc GST Stock Clearance Price AU$18.50 Inc GST You save AU$7.50!
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 31 January 1863, arrived Brisbane 21 May 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Light Brigade 1863
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 31 January 1863, arrived Brisbane 21 May 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age, and nationality (some occupations have been included)
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Maryborough 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 22 May 1862, departed Queenstown 26 May 1862, arrived Brisbane 19 September 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Montmorency 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Hamburg 28 April 1862, arrived Brisbane 30 July 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Ocean Chief 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 7 July 1862, Greenock 14 July 1862, arrived Moreton Bay 2 November 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Prince Consort 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 29 July 1862, departed Queenstown 2 August 1862, arrived Brisbane 3 November 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Queen of the Colonies 1863
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Our Price: AU$26.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 20 December 1863, departed Queenstown 5 January 1863, arrived Brisbane 13 April 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age and nationality as well as crew lists. Images of all known documents relating to this voyage have been included.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Rajasthan 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Liverpool 23 June 1862, arrived Brisbane 3 November 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Also includes b&w photos, and a map ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Saldanha 1863
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Greenock 16 May 1863, arrived Keppel Bay 9 October 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, marital status, age and nationality. Some occupations are included.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Star of England 1863
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Our Price: AU$31.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 26 May 1863, arrived Brisbane 16 September 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, marital status, age, and nationality. Images of all known documents relating to this voyage have been included.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Sultana 1862
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Our Price: AU$23.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 29 July 1862, departed Plymouth 2 August 1862, arrived Brisbane 3 November 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Also includes b&w photos, and a map.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Sunda 1863
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 2 July 1863, departed Plymouth 8 July 1863, arrived Brisbane 28 September 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Wanata 1863
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 2 November 1862, departed Queenstown 12 November 1962, and arrived 17 February 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, age, and nationality.
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Warren Hastings 1863
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Our Price: AU$26.00 Inc GST
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Southampton 16 January 1863, arrived Brisbane 27 April 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger list with surname, first name, marital status, age, occupation and nationality as well as crew lists. Images of all known documents relating to this
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Whirlwind 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed London 15 June 1862, and arrived Moreton Bay 15 September 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Includes a passenger ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Young Australia 1862
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Gravesend 8 May 1862, departed Plymouth 15 May 1862, arrived Brisbane 12 August 1862). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources. Also includes b&w photos, and a map ...
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They Came Direct: Immigration Vessels to Queensland: Young Australia 1863
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Contains all known information on this voyage (departed Plymouth 1 May 1863, departed London 25 April 1863, arrived Brisbane 24 July 1863). Details come from official, newspaper and other sources.
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Tracing Births, Deaths and Marriages at Sea
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At sea finding the birth, death or even marriage of one of your ancestors? Well perhaps the event did actually take place at sea. A new book from the Society ...
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Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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What was the merchant seaman's life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, rewarded for bravery, or punished? And how can you find out about an ancestor who was a member of the long British maritime tradition?
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Tracing Your Naval Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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Whether you are interested in the career of an individual seaman, finding out a medal winner or just want to know more about a particular ship, campaign or operations, this book will point you in the right direction ...
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Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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For a researcher eager to find out about the career of an individual marine, this readable and practical handbook will be necessary reading. It describes the resources available online and in the relevant archives offices. It covers books and campaign histories and ...
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Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
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This practical handbook will be an invaluable guide for family and local historians and for readers with a more general interest in shipbuilding. It introduces the variety of national and local records that are available for genealogical research and considers the many other resources that can yield fascinating information ...
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Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas
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Captain James Cook's three voyages to the South Seas are among the most astonishing expeditions in history - as he and his men circled the world, charting perilous tropical seas and icy Antarctic waters. Drawing on contemporary accounts, the author's vivid narrative weaves the stories ...
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Trying to Find A Seafaring Ancestor
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A guide for Australians with seafaring ancestors.
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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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Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks 1622-1850
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In 'Unfinished Voyages' the author details stories of the countless traders, whalers, emigrants, convicts, mutineers, slavers and pirates, who has fateful encounters with Australia's notorious shipwreck coast between 1622-1850 ...
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Via Torres Strait
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This is a maritime history of the Torres Strait shipping route including the inner passage along the Great Barrier Reef and the outer one through the Coral Sea.
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Victims of the Corsair Rock
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In 1853, after several vessels had been lost on uncharted rocks near Point Nepean, the pilot vessels began an organised search for hidden dangers. Finally in October, the ...
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Victorian Shipwrecks: All Wrecks in Victorian Waters and Bass Strait, Including King Island and the Kent Group
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Since the first sailors came to the colony, the Victorian coastline has proved fatal to many ships, wooden and iron sailing ships, then steamers, ran aground, struck reefs, collided, foundered ...
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Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791-1793
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In 1791 Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed with two ships from France to search for his compatriot, the explorer La Pérouse, who was missing in the Pacific.P Although d'Entrecasteaux failed to discover ...
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Voyage to Disaster
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Mutiny, murder, rape, torture; a priceless treasure fuelling the basest human greed; a courageous journey in search of rescue - the story of the 'Batavia', wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629, has been part of the myth and legend of Australian history.
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Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes
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At the turn of the eighteenth century, Australia might nominally have belonged to England, but it was France who knew her best. For the French, Australia and the Pacific were places of discovery, imagination ...
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War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650-1850
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This history of maritime warfare in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been written by one of the field’s leading experts. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the ...
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Wellbank's Australian Nautical Almanac and Coasters' Guide
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Our Price: AU$24.50 Inc GST
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Wellbank's Australian Nautical Almanac and Coasters' Guide was published annually from 1860 to 1889, but copies are now very rare.
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Western Australia's Tempestuous History
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Our Price: AU$60.01 Inc GST
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These volumes begin with the earliest recorded history of the arrival of white men on Western Australian shores. They were the survivors from shipwrecks who became unwilling emigrants. Seamen, mutineers, ...
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Whalemen of Twofold Bay
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Our Price: AU$41.95 Inc GST
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What Was the Voyage Really Like?: A Brief Guide to Researching Convict and Immigrant Voyages to Australia and New Zealand
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Our Price: AU$11.00 Inc GST
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Discovering when and how an ancestor arrived in Australia is the ambition of every family historian. This book, written as an expanded version of a talk that the author gives, is an excellent up-to-date guide on the topic of researching "Convict and Immigrant Voyages to Australia and New Zealand" ...
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Windjammers, The Final Story: A Collection of Memoirs, Poems and Paintings Depicting Life in the Last Commercial Sailing Ships
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Our Price: AU$59.95 Inc GST
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This is a unique book in that Robert Carter had the rare opportunity to acquire first hand information about the last of the wind driven ships from the final generation ...
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Wreck 1891 and Other Maritime Memories
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A great deal of our history lies on the seabed off South Western Victoria where there have been several hundred wrecks. As the author of many standard works on Australian ...
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Wreck of the Ship Eric the Red
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While the great oceans swallowed thousands of ships without trace, the ultimate graveyard for those bound for Melbourne was the rugged coastline of south western Victoria. Here, windjammers, ...
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Wreckers, Smugglers and Pirates in South Eastern Australian Waters
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Our Price: AU$13.20 Inc GST
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Wrecks Along the Gippsland Coast
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The toll of wrecks around the Gippsland coast is high, but after examining charts showing the maze of rocks, reefs and small islands dotted out into Bass Strait, ...
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Wrecks and Reputations: The Loss of the Schomberg and Loch Ard
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The 'Schomberg', described at 'the noblest ship that ever floated upon the water', was the pride of the British shipbuilding; its captain, the daredevil "Bully" Forbes, dreamed of ...
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Wrecks in the Rip, Port Phillip Bay
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Viewed from the shore, Port Phillip Heads appear to afford ample room for the safe navigation of vessels proceeding to and from the ports of Melbourne and Geelong. However, more ...
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Wrecks of Steamships in New South Wales 1836-1936
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This work is only intended to record the construction details of steam ad motor ships lost in the waters of the coast of New South Wales during the first century ...
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Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast
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More ships have been lost off the coast of New South Wales, and more undiscovered shipwrecks remain in these waters than any other stretch of coastline in Australia. ...
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Wrecks on the South Australian Coast: Including Kangaroo Island
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Wrecks on the South Australian Coast' is the third in the series of revised and updated reprints of maritime history books which have proved popular with shipwreck enthusiasts and sea ...
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Yorke Peninsula Shipping
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The history of South Australian coastal shipping commenced the day that settlement began, and the story of the shipping that served Yorke Peninsula really commenced the day the first landowner ...
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