Maritime
Books on Tasmania's rich maritime history – shipwrecks and rescues, whaling and sealing, ports and lighthouses, and the ships and seafarers of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean. A popular section with maritime historians, model shipbuilders, and anyone with family connections to Tasmania's seafaring past.
Port Dalrymple Shipping from 1963 to 1972
A book of colour photographs recording the ships that sailed into Port Dalrymple in northern Tasmania in the last decade prior to the advent of mass containerisation and the decline of the vast numbers of seafarers required to man the new type of ships. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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A Colonial Enterprise
A history of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company 1852 - 1892.
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A Harbour Large Enough to Admit a Whole Fleet
A small booklet on the maritime history and archaeology of Port Arthur, site of the infamous convict settlement in Tasmania / Van Diemen's Land.
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A Lucky Ship - Tambar
The story of the nine lives of the Australian coaster 'Tambar' 1912-1960, an ordinary little ship that had a long and eventful life.
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A Solomons Sojourn
J.E.Philp's log of the Makira 1912-1913.
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Alan Villiers – Voyager of the Winds | Kate Lance | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]
A biography of Alan Villiers, one of the last great sailing ship seamen and one of the most significant maritime writers of the 20th century. Written by Kate Lance and published in 2009. Villiers was based in Tasmania for a formative part of his career. He worked as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury, and it was from Hobart that he joined a Norwegian whaling fleet bound for Antarctica as a reporter.
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