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Send the Boy to Sea
Added: May 31, 2025
 
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The memoirs of a sailor on the goldfields.

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Alan Villiers - Voyager of the Winds
Added: May 30, 2025
 
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A biography of renowned seaman and author of books about the last of the square rigged sailing vessels and other maritime histories.

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Huddart Parker history
Added: May 29, 2025
 
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A history of Huddart Parker, a famous Australasian shipping company, 1876 - 1961.

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David Howie - Devil or Saint? A biography
 
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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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Death at Sea - the Bass Strait ferry tragedy
 
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A true story of the collision in Bass Strait between the ferry Coogee travelling from Launceston, Tasmania to Melbourne, and the sailing barque Fortunato Figari on Christmas Eve, 1903.

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Fatal Storm - used
 
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The story behind the disastrous 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race that claimed six lives.

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Ferries of the Derwent
 
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A history of the ferry services on the River Derwent in Tasmania.

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Ferry to Tasmania - a Short History
 
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Ferry to Tasmania provides a detailed account of the development of ferry services between mainland Australia and the island State of Tasmania up to the introduction of the Spirit of Tasmania III in 2004.

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For Many Years a Boat Builder
 
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Jacob Bayly Chandler was born in Dover, England in 1822 and migrated to Tasmania in his early 20s, initially working on the Derwent, repairing whaleboats, but within four years operating his own boatyard at Battery Point.

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Gone and Almost Forgotten
 
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Jetties in southern Tasmania - a dense text documenting the jetty, a once vital part of Tasmania's transport system, from Schouten Island to Maatsuyker Island, and up the Derwent only as far as Wellington Rivulet and Howrah. No photos - just a few line drawings.

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Guardians of the Port
 
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A history of the colonial pilots of the Port of Hobart from the earliest days of maritime trade on the Derwent.

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Guiding Lights - Tasmania's Lighthouses and Lighthousemen
 
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A comprehensive record of Tasmania's lighthouses and lighthouse keepers, giving a flavour of the job and the lifestyle. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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History of the Iron Pot - Derwent Light - Used Copy
 
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A comprehensive history of the Iron Pot - Australia's oldest lighthouse tower, Derwent Lighthouse - and a study of life in the colony of Van Diemen's Land and of its transition to the modern state of Tasmania.

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