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.
The Brothers Taylor
Tasmanian maritime and family history of the Taylor brothers - eight brothers from one generation holding master mariner certificates.
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The Capture of The Frederick Macquarie Harbour Van Diemen's Land 1834
On 14 January 1834, the last ship built at the closing Macquarie Harbour penal station on Sarah Island — the brig Frederick — was seized by ten convicts led by James Porter, a former sailor with previous experience in Chile. Using only dead reckoning, with no charts or chronometer, they sailed the untested vessel roughly 13,000 km across the Pacific to Chile, before scuttling her off the coast and reaching Valdivia, where they lived under assumed identities as shipwrecked sailors for two years.
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The Cock of the River Cartela
A history of the Tasmanian river steamer MV Cartela, built in Hobart in 1912.
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The Convict Ships 1787-1868
Charles Bateson reconstructs the voyages of the ships transporting convicts to Australia and also the administrative system under which the ships were selected, manned, provisioned and despatched with their miserable human freight to face a 13,000 mile voyage over tempestuous and largely uncharted seas.
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The Diary of Philip Thomas Smith
The diary of lawyer Philip Thomas Smith, on board the Royal Admiral en route for Van Diemen’s Land, 27 November 1831 to 8 April 1832.
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The History of Newnham Hall
A history of Newnham Hall to the north of Launceston, built around 1836 under the ownership of Lieutenant Matthew Curling Friend, and subsequently home to the Australian Maritime College. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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The James Craig Story
The James Craig Story - a booklet about the history, recovery from the bottom of Recherche Bay and restoration of the old iron barque sailing ship.
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The James of George Town
A colonial maritime, mercantile and family correspondence in northern Tasmania, 1813-1857.
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