SA Archaeology Society - SAAS (formerly SUHR)

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

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...

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

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

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

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....

This was meant to be about another topic, but I will just ‘go with the flow’ and (mainly) discuss pictures of the Loch Vennachar. I...

This anchor at American River on Kangaroo Island is said to be from an early American whaling ship. The anchor at American River on...

According to https://www.facebook.com/EdithburghMuseum/posts/584892742899111/ , divers Allan Russell, Merv Bryant and Peter Mildren...

It appears that Doug Seton took a series of slides at Althorpe Island many years ago. This slide appears to be of the Althorpe Island...

This is how the anchor from the Star of Greece shipwreck looks these days in its place at Semaphore jetty: - It hasn’t always been like...

Two anchors from Matthew Flinders’ Investigator  were raised by members of the Underwater Explorers Club of South Australia in 1973. The...

In my article titled The John Pirie Anchors (and other Anecdotes About Doug Seton) , I stated that Doug Seton had told me a little bit...

A stocked anchor from the wreck of the  Lady Kinnaird,  recovered & conserved by the then SUHR (Society for Underwater Historical...

In The South Australian Anchor Trail  I stated, “The schooner Rooganah caught fire when about 8 miles from Whyalla on 19th August 1927...

As I wrote at The John Pirie Anchors (and other Anecdotes About Doug Seton) , Doug Seton “played a major role in the recovery of the bow...

I often unsuccessfully asked Doug Seton to make a start on writing a book about his numerous diving experiences before his untimely passing early in 2023. Unfortunately, that never happened to the best of my knowledge, despite several ‘promises’. It is a great pity because there would’ve been many interesting stories to read in such a book. He once told me that “No one would read it, and worse still, might not believe it”. I am, however, able to at least pass on some anecdote

George D (Doug) Seton was well-known in diving and shipwreck circles. He has held many positions, including that of Assistant Information...

I have been watching occasional episodes of “Cooper’s Treasure” and following treasure hunter Darrell Miklos’s search for shipwreck...

Since writing “ The Golden Hind’s Cannon ”, and updating it, more information has come to hand via comments made by people on a Facebook...