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.
Captain Robinson
The reminiscences of a Tasmanian master mariner, James William Robinson 1824-1906.
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Cargo for the Colony - used
Wrecked in 1797 while on a journey from Calcutta to Port Jackson, the Sydney Cove was the first merchant vessel lost in Australian waters after the establishment of the colony of New South Wales.
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Coast - Tasmania, used
Coast – Tasmania, photographic seascapes from the Roaring Forties, presents an innovative and dramatic view of the island of Tasmania, its freshness, its wildness and its beauty.
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CSIRO at Sea
A history covering fifty years of marine science, encompassing: the field station Tasmania - Stowell - trout in Tasmania - Roy Downie - Derwent Hunter.
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David Howie - Devil or Saint? A biography
A biography of David Howie, a man who became a household name in Australia in 1845 as a result of his involvement in the rescue of survivors of the shipwreck of the Cataraqui on King Island - Australia's worst sea tragedy on record.
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Echoes of the Past - The Story of Shipping Disasters on King Island - 3rd edition
A small booklet, undated but appearing to date from the 1930s, documenting the many shipping disasters that have occurred on King Island in Bass Strait — among the worst of which is the Cataraqui, which claimed over 400 lives in 1845, Australia's worst civil maritime disaster.
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![Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life 1767-1831 – Ida Lee (1912) [RESEARCH COPY – Missing Chart]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/commodore-bookseller-stamps-close-up-oOs8Xj.png "Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life 1767-1831 – Ida Lee (1912) [RESEARCH COPY – Missing Chart]")
![Death at Sea – The Bass Strait Ferry Tragedy | Gregory Wane | 2021 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/death-at-sea-aw6Ake.png "Death at Sea – The Bass Strait Ferry Tragedy | Gregory Wane | 2021 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]")
