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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
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
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
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