Port Jackson: Images of more than 50 years - The Dufty Family & some contemporaries.
Flash Jack at Sea.
H.W.Horning & his life at see - Part 2. The 'Hell Ship' voyage on Cutty Sark. ". . . Captain Bruce revealed the depth of his brutal nature"
A nautical cricket bat.
Watchkeeping records in sail- 1859.
Tugs and launches. "Unbeknown to us, a fire had broken out in the upper floors"
Geelong's Malcolm Gibson: Master model maker.
Queen Mary 2 A different perspective.
Thanks from a grateful passenger.
A Scottish migrant boy's recollection: A 1950s voyage to Terra Australis.
Will she or won't she? SS Norway (ex France).
James Craig in Melbourne.
The bow thruster, new and old.
A near encounter with Graf Spee.
What Ship Is That?
Sea Library.
Sea Mail.
Australian Sea Heritage Number 84/85, Spring 2005/Summer 2006 Cover - James Craig rounds North Head as she returns from an offshore day sail out of Sydney Harbour in December 2005. Photo: Paul Furse
Australian Sea Heritage Number 86, Autumn 2006 Cover - Crew members of HMNZS Resolution in a man overboard drill during a cruise for delegates to the XIIth Triennial Congress of the International Congress of Maritime Museums. Photo supplied by New Zealand National Maritime Museum
Contents of Issue 86:-
News: All Ports
Spiers' Scrapbook
Anti-fouling: A historical perspective "The world's navies considered reverting to coppered wooden huls to ovrcome the problem"
Polly (a poem)
James Craig visits Melbourne 2006. "We were standing on the quarterdeck,feeling the ship surge beneath our feet, watching the sails straining before the gale, . . ."
The reign of the clipper
Around New Guinea by whale chaser
Port Jackson: Images of more than 50 years - The Davidson Collection "It was here that negative handling became a researcher's bad dream."
Measure for measure
Sea Mail
Australian Sea Heritage Number 87, 2006 Watching gauge and glass: Aboard Lady Hopetoun, fireman Ross R Melrose keeps an eye on things during a busy morning escorting mexican training ship Cuautémoc on her departure from Sydney, and then Sir Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV Photo: Editor
Contents of Issue 87:-
News: All Ports.
Love in the Australian coastal trade. " . . . he was far more excited about the time he could spend courting Miss Iris Bannister . . "
Doug tales.
My nautical career, manqué. "Once you've been infected by sea fever, though, it's hard to get rid of the virus."
Escort Duty: The Fleet in action.
What ship is that?
Images of Port Jackson: The MSB glass plate collection. "The combination of plague, rats, sub-standard housing, dodgy commercial operators . . ."
