Australian Sea Heritage

     Issues from year 2008 (No. 92, 93/94,:-)


Cover of Australian Sea Heritage No. 92 Australian Sea Heritage
Number 92, 2008
Cunarder Sagafjord (1965/24474gt)makes a dawn entry to Sydney Harbour. This ship returns to Australia today as Saga Rose . Photograph: Stephen Smith.

Contents of Issue 92:-

  • Notes from the Editor.
  • News: All Ports.
  • 'One or two of them is very troublesom'
    by Rob Wills
  • John Oxley: Upstairs, Downstairs Part 2   " . . .it was decided as a last resort to flood the engine room and stokehold with steam from the boilers."
    introduced by Ralph Seccombe
  • Arrivals and Departures   "Sally's father started the tradition of farewell streamers . . . "
    by Stephen Smith
  • Working Ships: The nostalgic days of freighter travel   "Furniture, glassware, trays of coffee; everything fell everywhere."
    by Stella W Green
  • A fisherman, his boat and his books   "full of ignorance and ambition"
    by Graeme Andrews
  • Life aboard the Craig ships - Part 2.   " . . .a domineering bully, but was 100-per-cent a sailor."
    by Captain Douglas Bull
  • Time
    by Peter Davey
  • Sea Mail.
Cover of Australian Sea Heritage No. 93/94 Australian Sea Heritage
Number 93/94, 2008
A windy day on Sydney Harbour aboard Sydney Heritage Fleet's flagship Lady Hopetoun. Photograph: Barbara Gurney.

Contents of Issue 93/94:-

  • Notes from the Editor.
  • News: All Ports.
  • Minding John Oxley
    by Geoff Atterton
  • She Steamed!
    A footnote by Warwick Turner
  • A case of Sea Fever:One and All - A passage to Port Adelaide
    by Ralph Seccombe
  • Plans for a Lady
    by Warwick Turner
  • What ship is that?
  • A History Quest: Back to Tasmania
    by Elizabeth & Warwick Stuart
  • The Danube is not Blue!
    by Joseph (Lew) Lewis-Hughes
  • Photo Shoot
    by Alf Batchelder
  • The Cruise of the Special Service Squadron, or Around the World in 10 Months
    by Graeme Andrews
  • At Sea in Force 12 Plus: Typhoon 'Ruth'
    by Bill Shepherd
  • Are we there yet? The Common Log
    by Peter Davies
  • From the Archives: Sayonara
    by Mike Ellery
  • Doug Tales
    by Douglas Taylor
  • A Tribute & Two Pictures
    by Tony Hunt
  • Sea Mail.
  • Notes on a Picture: Falls of Clyde
    by Robert Carter

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