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Updates and Corrections re Captain Thomas Swiggs, William Loose Beare, Captain George Main (and more?)

I am now trying to link several old articles together, and correct some possible errors in them, and add more details to them. The...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 219 min read

The grave of the cook from the Fides wreck, the Wreck Itself and Harvey’s Return

This photo from “Kangaroo Island Shipwrecks” by Gifford Chapman shows the grave of a sailor from the wreck of the Fides : - (Source:...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 2010 min read

More About Sir Douglas Mawson

Since writing both The steam yacht SY Aurora and The Mystery of the S.S. Douglas Mawson , I see that I had previously written about the...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 161 min read

The grave of Lucy Ann Beare at the Reeves Point cemetery

This is the grave of Lucy Ann Beare at the Reeves Point cemetery: - The grave of Lucy Ann Beare at the Reeves Point cemetery (Photo...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 143 min read

Harvey’s Return Cemetery

There is a small cemetery at Harvey’s Return near Cape Borda on Kangaroo Island. According to https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2506227...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 136 min read

The Geltwood Graves

According to https://borderwatch.com.au/local-news/2020/06/27/inland-link-to-maritime-history/ , the iron hulled barque Geltwood was...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 122 min read

Terry Arnott (and the City of Launceston shipwreck)

Terry Arnott (TK, Terrence) passed away in 2007 at the age of 53. There was an obituary for Terry in The Advertiser on 17th February...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 105 min read

Further to the Grave of the Unknown Sailor from the Loch Vennachar

Further to The Grave of the Unknown Sailor from the Loch Vennachar , there are further details in “Australian Sea Mysteries” (Second...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 83 min read

The Knees of Ships

According to Wikipedia, “In woodworking, a knee is a natural or cut curved piece of wood. Knees, sometimes called ship's knees, are a...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 72 min read

The Mystery of the S.S. Douglas Mawson

"Australian Sea Mysteries" (2nd edition) gives some details of a wooden, ketch-rigged steamship called the Douglas Mawson , built in NSW...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 72 min read

The steam yacht SY Aurora

I recently found this postcard from the South Australian Museum: - It features the Aurora at the Cape Denison anchorage. Those ice...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 78 min read

Art and Artefacts from HMCS Protector

Further to HMCS Protector, South Australia's only colonial warship and Student Survey of the Torpedo Station Site, Hindmarsh Reach, Port...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 62 min read

1977 Loch Vennachar Expedition Update, including images from the expedition

As I wrote at The Anchors of the Loch Vennachar at http://wix.to/gzjn2HB , the SUHR conducted a major expedition by to the site of...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 53 min read

HMCS Protector, South Australia's only colonial warship

Further to S tudent Survey of the Torpedo Station Site, Hindmarsh Reach, Port River, 2000 , although most details are covered in Stephen...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 42 min read

Student Survey of the Torpedo Station Site, Hindmarsh Reach, Port River (2000)

A group of students and lecturers from the 3rd year Flinders University Maritime Archaeology class (ARCH 3005) undertook fieldwork on the...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 44 min read

The Graves of Crew from the Rescue Boat for the Electric

While I'm on a roll, here is the memorial at St Jude's Cemetery at Brighton for the four drowned crew from the boat that attempted to aid...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 24 min read

The grave of Dao Thanh from the SS Notue

My writing seems to have drifted from shipwrecks, anchors & cannon to maritime graves now. That brings me to revisit the topic of The...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 22 min read

The 'Missing' Anchor from the City of Adelaide Clipper Ship

According to http://cityofadelaide.org/wiki/Voyage_to_Adelaide_in_1874 , “At 3am on the 24th August 1874 the City of Adelaide anchored...

Steve Reynolds

Jan 13 min read

The Grave of the Unknown Sailor from the Loch Vennachar

According to comments made on “Ships’ Nostalgia”, the “ Loch Vennachar was a three-masted iron sailing ship (clipper) that operated...

Steve Reynolds

Dec 31, 20245 min read

The Grave of David Kilpatrick from the Loch Sloy

This is the grave of 25-year-old David Kilpatrick, a victim of the Loch Sloy wrecking on a nearby reef at Kangaroo Island in April 1899....

Steve Reynolds

Dec 31, 20242 min read