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Australia's Shipwreck Coast and Other Stories
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Written in three sections, the first two are for the shipwreck enthusiast and tourist who may wish to visit wreck sites, graves, memorials to seamen and passengers who lost their lives at sea, and other places of maritime interest. The third section ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fatal Lights: Two Strange Tragedies of the Sea
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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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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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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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S.S. Yongala: Townsville's Titanic
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On the afternoon of March 23rd, 1911 the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer 'Yongala' left Mackay, North Queensland for Townsville. Later that night she crossed into the path of a powerful ...
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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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Seeking the Sydney: A Quest for Truth
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The wartime loss of Australia’s pride, HMAS Sydney, with all hands on board, remains among the great riddles of modern maritime history - one that has teased authorities, naval experts ...
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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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Shipwreck of the New Guinea Gold Explorers: The Wreck of the Brig 'Maria' off Hinchinbrook Island in 1872
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It is 1872 in Sydney and gold fever is seriously running high. High enough to inspire swells and diggers alike to set sail for exotic New Guinea.p They call it New ...
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Shipwreck Strait: An Illustrated History of Shipwrecks, Collisions and Fires in Bass Strait From 1797
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The natural hazards of the sea were an accepted part of a sailor's life. In fog or bad weather, with visibility down to zero a captain might have to ...
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Shipwrecks Along the Great Ocean Road
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More large ships have been wrecked along Victoria's West Coast than on any comparable stretch of Coastline in Australia, and the stories of their loss are woven into the legend ...
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Shipwrecks and Seafarers' Scandals: True Tales from Colonial Queensland and the South Pacific
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Mysteries, long-forgotten treasures, shipwrecks, murder, torture, madness and brutality; they all combine to ensure this collection of true tales from the seafaring past of Queensland and the South ...
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Shipwrecks in South Australia 1836-1899
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This little book lists the details of hundreds of shipwrecks in South Australia.
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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 on Cornwall's North Coast
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This booklet is a pictorial record of 30 shipwrecks that have occurred along the north of Cornwall's coast. Complete with a map pin-pointing each, the photograph together with ...
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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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Tales From the Surf Coast, Shipwreck Coast and Their Hinterlands
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The Loch Ard Disaster
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On one coly June morning more than 100 years ago, the iron clipper 'Loch Ard' met her doom on Mutton Bird Island near Port Campbell. She left an Irish girl ...
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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 Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland (and Other Great Sea Disasters) 1914
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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