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Vanished Fleets - Sea Stories from Old Van Dieman's Land by Alan Villiers HCDJ See details
Vanished Fleets - Sea Stories from Old Van Dieman's Land by Alan Villiers HCDJ
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Alan Villiers went to sea at 15, and became one of the last captains of a commercial square-rigged sailing ship. Vanished Fleets gathers his stories of Van Diemen's Land's maritime history — pirates, whalemen, escaped convicts, adventurers and pioneers.

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An Imperial Disaster
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An Imperial Disaster
An historical study of the shipwreck of the convict transport ship George the Third on entering the D'Entrecasteaux Channel after a 4 month voyage from England, with great loss of life.
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Port Dalrymple Shipping from 1963 to 1972
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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 See details
A Colonial Enterprise
A history of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company 1852 - 1892.
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A Hand on the Helm – The Life and Times of George Weymouth Cox 1909–1992 | G.W. Cox | 1993 | Numbered 107/200 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
A Hand on the Helm – The Life and Times of George Weymouth Cox 1909–1992 | G.W. Cox | 1993 | Numbered 107/200 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The biography of George Weymouth Cox — Tasmanian bushman and conservationist — covering his life from 1909 to 1992.

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A Harbour Large Enough to Admit a Whole Fleet See details
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 See details
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 See details
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] See details
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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All or Nothing - Celebrating 150+ years of the Port Esperance Regatta See details
All or Nothing - Celebrating 150+ years of the Port Esperance Regatta
This book was commissioned by the Esperance Discovery Centre at Dover District High School, and the Port Esperance Sailing Club to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Port Esperance Regatta in Tasmania in 2011.
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Alma Doepel - The History of An Australian Schooner 1903 - 1975 See details
Alma Doepel - The History of An Australian Schooner 1903 - 1975

Launched in 1903 at Bellingen, New South Wales, the three-masted topsail schooner Alma Doepel was sold into Tasmanian ownership in 1915 and went on to become part of Hobart's Henry Jones (IXL) "jam fleet," carrying fruit and jam between Hobart and the South Yarra jam factory.

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