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1788 Watkin Tench: Comprising a Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and a Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet in January 1788. He was in his late twenties, a captain of the marines, and on the adventure of ...
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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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A note in the foreword written by Ron Parsons: In the 1960s I reprinted an item that was originally published in the 'Daily Commercial News and Shipping List' ...
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And the Crew Went Too: The £10 Assisted Passage
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The end of WWII heralded one of the largest mass migrations ever seen from Europe. Millions left their homelands for new horizons, and Britain was no exception. Australia, like New Zealand and Canada, needed many thousands of new workers so that it could grow ...
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Arrivals and Departures New South Wales 1788-1825 (Private Use)
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Finding arrivals of non-convicts into New South Wales in the early years of the colony can be difficult and locating the few surviving departure records is almost impossible. This CD-ROM might help locate some of these mysterious ancestors who swam here or disappeared without trace! Sourced from a number of early records drawn into one database ...
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Arrivals and Departures New South Wales 1788-1825 (Public Use)
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Sourced from a number of early records drawn into one database. Includes nearly 5,500 records of arrivals and 3,000 departures of free persons, military and crew on convict ships, whales and trading vessels ...
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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 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 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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This book (one of a series of two covering vessel enrollments at Sydney between the dates of 1860 and 1875), lists the shipowners alphabetically by surname, with each of their ...
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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 6: Vessels Enrolled At Sydney 1830-1840
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The material used to prepare this book has basically been taken from the Register of British Ships for the port of Sydney, but it would be as well to consider ...
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Australian Shipowners and Their Fleets Book 7: Vessels Enrolled At Sydney 1841-1849
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The information for this book has been taken from the Register of British Ships for the Port of Sydney, but this does not mean that the owners were necessarily resident in Sydney.
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Bounty Immigration New South Wales 1828 to 1842
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This publication contains nearly 60,000 records of immigrants arriving in New South Wales from 1828 to 1842. To compile this database, 64 reels of microfilm # 1286-1349 from State ...
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Cargo for the Colony: The 1797 Wreck of the Merchant Ship 'Sydney Cove'
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Wrecked in 1797 while on a journey from Calcutta to Port Jackson, the 'Sydney Cove' was the first merchant vessel lost after the establishment of the colony of New South ...
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Clarence River Register No. 10
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Passengers and crew in and out of the Clarence River 1866-1869 ...
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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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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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Free Passengers and Crew on Convict Ships Into Sydney 1830-40
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Comprising of 2 parts. Part 1 has more than 3300 entries arranged alphabetically by name, with full details of ship, date of arrival, and all details noted in the records, ...
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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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This is 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 ...
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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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Handbook to the Colony of New South Wales 1858
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This small, but very useful book was published as a guide to potential emigrants to New South Wales, and it tells the history and current state (as at 1858) of the colony very concisely ...
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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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Immigration Deposit Indexes
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This new CD includes two indexes previously published on separate microfiche sets: 1. Immigration Deposit Journals [NSW] Index 1853-1900 – Immigrants & Depositors 2. Immigration Deposit Regulations Supplementary Index ...
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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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Manly Ferries of Sydney Harbour: the Seven Mile Ships
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Master Index to Ships Pictures in the Mitchell Library, Sydney
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This CD indexes 11,736 images of identified vessels held in eight different locations of the Mitchell Library section of the State Library of New South Wales. Vessels cover the years ...
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Quarantined!: The 1837 Lady Macnaghten Immigrants
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Quarantined! tells the story of one of the first ships with migrants to arrive in Australia. When the Lady Macnaghten set sail from Ireland, it contained over 400 emigrants, but when it limped into Sydney Harbour in February 1837, disease was raging on board and the immigrants and crew were dying from typhoid ...
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Shipowners Registering their Ships in Early Sydney
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This is a revision and update of material previously published as Australian Shipowners and their Fleets books 5 and 6. p Most of the material in this publication comes from the ...
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Shipowners Trading to the Northern Rivers of New South Wales
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Shipping services to the northern rivers of New South Wales commenced with a schooner in about Autumn 1838, though steam soon followed.P The first people to use the rivers of the ...
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Shipping Arrivals and Departures Sydney Volume 1 1788-1825
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Contains shipping entries and corresponding departures, as well as details of maritime incidents and activities reported in the Sydney press. Also includes whaling reports, discoveries, wrecks and mutinies, etc.
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Shipping Arrivals and Departures Sydney Volume 3 1841-1844 and Gazetteer
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The aim of this publication is to provide a comprehensive record of shipping movements in and out of the port of Sydney from 1 January 1841 to 31 December 1844.
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Ships of The Inland Rivers
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This classic work, first published in 1987 and compiled by well known maritime historian, Ronald Parsons, has been through numerous editions and printings, the latest being a reprint of ...
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Ships of the Inland Rivers: An Outline History and Details of all Known Paddle Steamers, Barges and Other Commercial Vessels Trading on the Murray-Darling System (CD)
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This classic work, first published in 1987 and compiled by well known maritime historian, Ronald Parsons, has been through numerous editions and printings, the latest being a reprint of the ...
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Ships Registered At Newcastle: Before 1900
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This publication contains details of all the ships enrolled with Customs at the port of Newcastle, New South Wales, from the commencement of registration at the port until 1899. It ...
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Shipwrecks of the New South Wales Central Coast: Volume 1 1800-1899
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New South Wales shipwrecks are one of the most fascinating, if little known, aspects of the State's history. From the smallest sloops and cutters of the 19th century to large ...
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Shipwrecks, Storms and Seamen of the New South Wales Coast
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Shipwrecks, Storms and Seamen of the New South Wales Coast' remembers some of the greatest maritime stories of the state. With the assistance of historic photographs, graphic underwater ...
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Steamships to the Illawarra: South Sydney
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History of the Development of Steamer Services South of Sydney.
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Sydney Ferry Fleets
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Handbook to Sydney Harbour ferry services. Lists the fleets of 73 operators and details of 282 ferry boats from 1831 to 1983.
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The Bibliography of the Convict Transports
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A list of all 1040 convict transports in alphabetical order, showing the number of people aboard, place of arrival and the source and call number of the ship's indent or ...
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The First Fleet Families
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A comprehensive list of the first fleet families including 1200 of their children. Also available on microfiche.
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The Merchant's Women: The Story of Over 200 Young Single Women Who Left England in 1833 to Settle in New South Wales
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The enterprising women on the 'Bussorah Merchant' emigrant ship responded to advertisements which attracted them to migrate to far-away Australia. In contrast to convicts, these courageous women freely chose to make the long journey to the other side of the world. Each woman's story is told here ...
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The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage From Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800
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John Washington Price was the surgeon of the transport Minerva which sailed from Cork for Sydney in 1799 carrying 200 convicts. Many of them were United Irishmen transported for their ...
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The Sydney Ferry Book
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Sydney's magnificent harbour and the ferries that serve its many wharves and jetties are renowned throughout the world. p This is a colourful pictorial book about the ferries of ...
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge: 75 Fascinating Facts
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This book is full of facts such as what was the name the RSL wanted the bridge to be called? What was the first car to cross the bridge and who was driving it? What are the towers on the bridge used for? How much was the toll to cross the bridge? For anyone wanting to know the history of this amazing Australian landmark, this little book is ideal.
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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 Watermen of Sydney: Memories of a Working Harbour
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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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To Botany Bay
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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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