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When he died in 1938, Captain William McKillop was recognised as probably the last surviving master mariner who had served on board an Australasian sail whaler. This book publishes Captain McKillop's memoirs for the first time, bringing to life the last decades of whaling and seagoing trading voyages under sail in Australasia.
Whaling off Tasmania and southern New Zealand as described by Captain William McKillop (1865–1938). Covers McKillop's early life and sealing in New Zealand, whaling voyages out of New Zealand and Tasmania aboard vessels including the Waterwitch, Sapphire and Alaska, incidents from his time at sea, profiles of notable Hobart whalemen, a section on whale species, his later years as a merchant mariner, and a biographical appendix with family tree and obituary.
The true story of the 1829 convict mutiny aboard the brig Cyprus - seized at Recherche Bay while bound for Macquarie Harbour, and sailed across the Pacific under convict command. By Frank Clune and P.R. Stephensen.
![The Set of the Sails – The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman | Alan Villiers | 1997 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/set-of-the-sails-hc-f0MasP.png "The Set of the Sails – The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman | Alan Villiers | 1997 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]")
Alan Villiers' own account of his early years as a working seaman aboard the last commercial square-rigged sailing ships rounding Cape Horn, published in 1997. Villiers spent time in Tasmania during the formative period of his career — working as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury between voyages, and sailing from Hobart as a reporter with a Norwegian Antarctic whaling fleet.
The Shank provides detailed sketches and superb aerial photography of some of the great anchorages along Tasmania's south and west coasts, from Recherche Bay to Port Davey, and beyond to Macquarie Harbour.
A history of the Port of Launceston Authority and the development of shipping on the Tamar in northern Tasmania, by Sir Raymond Alfred Ferrall CBE (1906–2000) — a prominent Launceston businessman and Warden of the Port of Launceston Authority, for which he was made CBE in 1969.
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