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The Golden Sea
In 2014, I wrote about an immigrant sailing ship called the Golden Sea which berthed in Port Adelaide, South Australia in 1876. It...
Steve Reynolds
20 hours ago1 min read
The Wreck of the Dorothy S
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...
Steve Reynolds
5 days ago2 min read
Vessels and Wrecks Associated with Captain Joseph Coleman from Port Adelaide
The wooden, 3-masted barque Nene Valley was wrecked at Cape Northumberland in the south-east of South Australia on 19 th October 1854....
Steve Reynolds
5 days ago4 min read
Two Accounts About Three Church Bells
There are at least two accounts about three church bells having been brought to South Australia from Germany for Lutheran churches in the...
Steve Reynolds
Sep 292 min read
The wrecking of the RV Saori
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....
Steve Reynolds
Sep 163 min read
The History of Breakout Creek at the River Torrens Outlet
According to Green Adelaide , “The River Torrens (Karrawirra Pari) used to flow through sprawling reed beds towards the Port River in...
Steve Reynolds
Sep 153 min read
Wedge Island - An Unexpected History
Garry Keywood has provided us with a copy of "Wedge Island - An Unexpected History" for us to read. It features many interesting topics...
Steve Reynolds
Sep 151 min read
The Buck Family and the Ketch ‘Young E.B.’
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...
Steve Reynolds
Sep 25 min read
More on The Changing State of the Ethel Wreck
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...
Steve Reynolds
Aug 271 min read
Shipwreck Topics (July 2025)
A team from Rodney Fox Great White Shark Expeditions recently held the inaugural Wreck Diving Tour. The MV Rodney Fox cruised around...
Steve Reynolds
Jun 304 min read
Where is the Anchor from the Cheopis?
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...
Steve Reynolds
Apr 23 min read
The Bower Anchors from HMS Porpoise
The 308-ton HMS Porpoise was wrecked at Wreck Reefs in 1803. The explorer Matthew Flinders was returning to England onboard Porpoise when...
Steve Reynolds
Apr 11 min read
1979-1980 Images of the Grecian wreck site and artefacts
I have some images of the SUHR's expedition and survey of the Grecian wreck site from November 1979 to January 1980. Underwater photos...
Steve Reynolds
Mar 211 min read
Images of the 1970s Holdfast Bay Project
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...
Steve Reynolds
Mar 211 min read
1982 Images from the Tigress wreck site
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...
Steve Reynolds
Mar 211 min read
Two Cannon from Armada Shipwrecks
The Underwater Archaeological Unit of Ireland’s Department of National Monuments Service recovered a cannon said/thought to be from La...
Steve Reynolds
Feb 243 min read
The Memorial for John Robert McDonald
Local Port Adelaide identity, John Robert McDonald was buried in the Alberton cemetery in 1909. According to this plaque, the cemetery...
Steve Reynolds
Feb 22 min read
Captain Alexander James Jamieson (& the Mary)
According to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notable_South_Australians/Captain_Alexander_Jamieson : - “Notable South Australians by George...
Steve Reynolds
Feb 14 min read
The Recovery of Copper Ingots from Old Wallaroo Jetty in 1974
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...
Steve Reynolds
Jan 283 min read
The Search for the Investigator's Anchors
Since writing The Recovery of the Small Stream Anchor from HMS Investigator , I have now found that details regarding the search for the...
Steve Reynolds
Jan 221 min read
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