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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
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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
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Captain Hilton Burgess from the Vivid
When I published The Continuing Search for the Vivid online, I soon heard from a colleague who told me that he was a great grandson of...
Steve Reynolds
Jan 222 min read
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The Continuing Search for the Vivid
(As far as I can tell, my article titled "The Continuing Search for the Vivid (as told to Steve Reynolds by Eric Kotz)" published in the...
Steve Reynolds
Jan 2110 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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