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.
Send the Boy to Sea
The memoirs of a sailor on the goldfields.
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Ships of Hobart Harbour
A comprehensive history of the port of Hobart and ships that have visited the port.
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Shipwrecks in Australian Waters 1622-1850
The waters around Australia have proved treacherous to mariners and since the wreck of the English ship Trial in 1622, thousands of vessels have been lost up to the present day.
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Shipwrecks of King Island - Neva, Cataraqui, British Admiral, Blencartha
The story of King Island's many shipwrecks, including the Cataraqui disaster of 1845 – Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, claiming around 400 lives – along with the Neva, British Admiral and Blencartha, and the lighthouses eventually built to make the treacherous western entrance to Bass Strait safer.
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Spirited, Skilled and Determined
A history of the 19th century boat and ship builders of Battery Point in Hobart, Tasmania.
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SV May Queen - A Grand Survivor
Designed and built in 1867 on the Huon River, SV May Queen is one of Tasmania's most distinctive coastal traders and now sits resplendent in Constitution Dock, Hobart.
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Tall Ships and Cannibals - used
The life of Captain Richard Copping is the rags to riches story of the illegitimate son of a Van Diemen's Land convict woman, who spent most of his working life at sea and rose to command some of Tasmania's most prestigious sailing ships.
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![Ships in Tasmanian Waters - shipping history, written by master mariner GW Cox | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/ships-in-tasmanian-waters-lIXdX9.png "Ships in Tasmanian Waters - shipping history, written by master mariner GW Cox | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]")
![Shipwrecks of the Furneaux Group – Around the Islands at the Eastern End of Bass Strait | Graeme Broxam & Michael Nash | 2023 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/shipwrecks-of-the-furneaux-group-4wJqTt.png "Shipwrecks of the Furneaux Group – Around the Islands at the Eastern End of Bass Strait | Graeme Broxam & Michael Nash | 2023 [NEW – SC]")
