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Details and accounts of beachcombing in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and more.
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.
![Voyage in the Pandora – A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora | George Hamilton | Facsimile Edition 1998 | Limited to 950 Copies [USED – HC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/voyage-pandora-TOF6Ll.png "Voyage in the Pandora – A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora | George Hamilton | Facsimile Edition 1998 | Limited to 950 Copies [USED – HC]")
A facsimile of George Hamilton's 1793 account of the voyage of HMS Pandora — the Royal Navy frigate sent to arrest the Bounty mutineers in the South Seas. Hamilton was the ship's surgeon and the only eyewitness to publish a full contemporary account of the voyage.
Unimpeded by any landmass, the mysterious Southern Ocean flows completely around the earth from west to east between the seasonally shifting icy continent of Antarctica and the coastlines and islands of Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa.
![Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land | Harry O'May | c.1950s [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/wooden-hookers-whalers-cV5bxo.png "Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land | Harry O'May | c.1950s [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
Two of Harry O'May's histories of Tasmanian maritime life bound together in one volume — Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town and Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land. O'May was one of the most diligent historians of Hobart's seafaring past — he documented the ships, the masters, the trades and the men of the Derwent and the southern seas in a series of books published from the 1940s to the 1960s.
King Island, in Bass Strait, has been the site of over 60 shipwrecks and more than 800 lives lost, including the Cataraqui (1845, Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, over 400 dead), the convict ship Neva (1835, 218 lost) and the British Admiral (79 lost).
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