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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...

Jan 16, 20234 min read

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...

Nov 12, 20224 min read

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...

Sep 14, 20223 min read

According to the article titled “Fifth Expedition to the Wreck of HMS “Sirius”, Norfolk Island, March 1990” in the late Neville Coleman’s...

Jul 19, 20222 min read

I have acquired the book "Sagas of Steam and Sail" by Neil W. Cormack since writing "Captain John Legoe & More About the Hesperus". The...

Jun 27, 20222 min read

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...

Jun 20, 20223 min read

I may have unwittingly posed some tricky questions in my article titled The Gardener who came to Glenelg on HMS Buffalo in 1836. I...

Jun 19, 20223 min read

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...

Jun 18, 20227 min read

A William Croxall, who was a gardener, came to Glenelg, South Australia onboard HMS Buffalo in 1836, along with his wife and daughter....

Jun 13, 20222 min read

People (over 50?) often say something like, “I look like the wreck of the Hesperus!”. Just what is it about the Hesperus? Hesperus was...

May 25, 20224 min read

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...

May 21, 20221 min read