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Steve Reynolds
Mar 10, 20242 min read
The Anchors from the Fiji
Two large anchors from the 1375-ton 3-masted iron barque Fiji have been set in concrete on Wreck Beach near Princetown and Port Campbell...
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Steve Reynolds
Feb 20, 20245 min read
The wreck of the Speke
I wish to speak about the Speke, a 1906 shipwreck at Phillip Island, Victoria. I had heard about the wreck through books such as...
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Steve Reynolds
Dec 17, 20236 min read
Report: ‘David Witton’ Anchor
Report: ‘David Witton’ Anchor - (Anchor belonging to ‘David Witton’ brig) by Amanda Ward, MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY, FLINDERS UNIVERSITY This...
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Steve Reynolds
Dec 1, 202310 min read
But Which Swiftsure Is It? (plus anchors from the Swiftsure & the Foam)
In 1991, the Australian Navy retrieved a ship’s anchor at Voaden Point (to the north of Cape Sidmouth) in far north Queensland (FNQ). It...
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Steve Reynolds
Sep 4, 20234 min read
The Bower Anchor from the David Witton
The 2-masted, 271-ton wooden brig David Witton (NOT ‘Whitton’) was wrecked at Port Noarlunga during a storm in the early hours of 18th...
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Steve Reynolds
Jul 27, 20234 min read
Some Carronades in South Australia
According to this display at the South Australian Maritime Museum, there were six carronades on the deck of HMS Buffalo when it brought...
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Steve Reynolds
Jan 19, 20233 min read
The Wreck of the Koning Willem II
30th June 2023 marks the 166th anniversary of the grounding of the 800-ton Dutch barque Koning Willem II in Guichen Bay in 1857. The...
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Steve Reynolds
Jan 16, 20234 min read
The recent collapse of the Santiago’s mid-section
As posted on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=153425680794800&set=pcb.153425707461464 , Port River Cruises reported “The...
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Steve Reynolds
Nov 12, 20224 min read
The Kedge Anchor from the Loch Ard
According to the web page found at http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/shipwrecks/heritage/417, “One of two located anchors was raised for the...
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Steve Reynolds
Sep 14, 20222 min read
The Changing State of the Ethel Wreck
The wreck of the Ethel has continuously changed since that fateful day when it was wrecked at Reef Head on the Yorke Peninsula on 2nd...
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Steve Reynolds
Jul 19, 20222 min read
MORE DETAILS ABOUT HMS SIRIUS
According to the article titled “Fifth Expedition to the Wreck of HMS “Sirius”, Norfolk Island, March 1990” in the late Neville Coleman’s...
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Steve Reynolds
Jun 27, 20222 min read
More About Captains Begg & Legoe and the Hesperus
I have acquired the book "Sagas of Steam and Sail" by Neil W. Cormack since writing "Captain John Legoe & More About the Hesperus". The...
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Steve Reynolds
Jun 20, 20223 min read
We now have some files from the Temme Collection
As I reported on our Facebook page on 17th June, “We have now received (part of) the Temme collection from Brian Morrison. It fills a...
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Steve Reynolds
Jun 19, 20223 min read
New Ground Gained on Gardener from Glenelg
I may have unwittingly posed some tricky questions in my article titled The Gardener who came to Glenelg on HMS Buffalo in 1836. I...
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Steve Reynolds
Jun 18, 20227 min read
Captain John Legoe & More About the Hesperus
Since writing The Wreck of the Hesperus, I have stumbled across a little more information about the ship. In The Wreck of the Hesperus, I...
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Steve Reynolds
Jun 13, 20222 min read
The Gardener who came to Glenelg on HMS Buffalo in 1836
A William Croxall, who was a gardener, came to Glenelg, South Australia onboard HMS Buffalo in 1836, along with his wife and daughter....
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Steve Reynolds
May 25, 20224 min read
The Wreck of the Hesperus
People (over 50?) often say something like, “I look like the wreck of the Hesperus!”. Just what is it about the Hesperus? Hesperus was...
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Steve Reynolds
May 21, 20221 min read
More About HMS Sirius
HMS Sirius was built on the River Thames as a 3-masted Baltic trader in 1781. It is said to have originally been a coal-carrying vessel...
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