SA Archaeology Society - SAAS (formerly SUHR)

I have been writing a series of blogs for posting to the GIRT Scientific Divers website. These blogs are being progressively published on the site, one at a time, All blogs, including those by other authors can be found (by members only) at GIRT . Titles of my blogs posted to the site so far include: - Hopper Barge No.3 wreck site (and Sorata & Benlarig) The Grecian wreck site The state of the PS Trafalgar and the ketch Alert Site Surveys of the SS Ellen The SS Ellen Wreck Si

In 2014, I wrote about an immigrant sailing ship called the Golden Sea which berthed in Port Adelaide, South Australia in 1876. It...

It has now been almost two years since I was last able to visit the Broad Creek jetty for the first time. Several hospital visits and low...

The wooden, 3-masted barque Nene Valley  was wrecked at Cape Northumberland in the south-east of South Australia on 19 th October 1854....

There are at least two accounts about three church bells having been brought to South Australia from Germany for Lutheran churches in the...

The 85-ton, two-masted ketch RV Saori , an 18m-long wooden research vessel, was built (by Reg Sprigg & Dennis/Denis O’Malley?) in 1963....

According to Green Adelaide  , “The River Torrens (Karrawirra Pari) used to flow through sprawling reed beds towards the Port River in...

Garry Keywood has provided us with a copy of "Wedge Island - An Unexpected History" for us to read. It features many interesting topics...

You may call it just a coincidence, but I call it fate. I was by chance visiting the anchor memorial by the Australian Naval Association...

A colleague of mine saw my piece titled The Changing State of the Ethel Wreck  and decided to send me his own version titled “The Story...

A team from Rodney Fox Great White Shark Expeditions recently held the inaugural Wreck Diving Tour. The MV Rodney Fox  cruised around...

After I first met the late Doug Seton in 2019, he sent me a note advising me that the anchor from the Cheopis  is in Penneshaw on...

The 308-ton HMS Porpoise was wrecked at Wreck Reefs in 1803. The explorer Matthew Flinders was returning to England onboard Porpoise when...

I have some images of the SUHR's expedition and survey of the Grecian wreck site from November 1979 to January 1980. Underwater photos...

I have several images from the 1970'sof the Holdfast Bay Project at the old Glenelg jetty site. These came courtesy of Doug & Mara Seton...

I have many black and white images of the Tigress wreck site in 1982. These may have come courtesy of Doug & Mara Seton. They show the...

The Underwater Archaeological Unit of Ireland’s Department of National Monuments Service recovered a cannon said/thought to be from La...

Local Port Adelaide identity, John Robert McDonald was buried in the Alberton cemetery in 1909. According to this plaque, the cemetery...

According to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notable_South_Australians/Captain_Alexander_Jamieson : - “Notable South Australians by George...

As I wrote at ‘Price’s Jetty’ at Wallaroo , the second jetty to be built at Wallaroo, SA was commenced in April 1880. Two divers died...