SA Archaeology Society - SAAS (formerly SUHR)

I can finally dive on the 1837 wreck of the 238-ton barque South Australian at Victor Harbor, through the magic of VR! The story of the...

This large stocked anchor is now located at the corner of at the Port River end of Torrens Avenue at New Port: - It was only placed there by the housing developers late in 2023 to be an attraction on the walking loop there. Prior to that, it was located at the edge of the small car park in Port Adelaide at the corner of Dale & Nile streets. The Port Adelaide Anchor Trail guide published by the Marine Life Society of South Australia describes the anchor as being a Rodgers smal

On Christmas Eve 1991, I took myself for a solo scuba dive at Semaphore jetty. My dive  log book reports that I found an old anchor...

The Marie Gabrielle (or Gabriel), a three-masted wooden barque, was wrecked near Princetown, Victoria, Australia, on the 24th of...

Relatives of mine recently visited the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village at Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. They sent me some photos of a...

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 in Victoria since 1964. Geoff Naylor’s book “Shipwrecks along the Southern Coast” (GA Nayler) revealed years ago (date unknown) that members of the Warrnambool Skindiving Club had mounted the anchors from the Fiji shipwreck on Wreck Beach. According to the web page found at https://www.scubadivermag.com/i-set-fiji-anchor-reveals-91-year-old

I wish to speak about the Speke, a 1906 shipwreck at Phillip Island, Victoria. I had heard about the wreck through books such as...

Report: ‘David Witton’ Anchor - (Anchor belonging to ‘David Witton’ brig) by Amanda Ward, MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY,  FLINDERS UNIVERSITY This...

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...

Broad Creek is situated in the south-eastern corner of Barker Inlet in the Port Adelaide River, between North Arm Creek and Swan Alley...

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...

A bit more information has come to light since I wrote THE STRANDING OF THE STEAMER SORATA in May 2021. The stranded Sorata at Cape...

During a visit to the South Australian Maritime Museum (SAMM), I photographed this small cannon on display: - Following my visit to the...

Further to https://stevereynolds.wixsite.com/website/post/anchor-from-the-1852-wreck-of-the-eglinton, here are a couple more photos of...

According to this display at the South Australian Maritime Museum, there were six carronades on the deck of HMS Buffalo when it brought...

Final Report on the 1986 archaeological survey by a team of South Australian divers on the wreck of HMS Buffalo in New Zealand by Steve...

The Loch Vennachar was a 1552-ton, three-masted iron barque that sank in West Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia in 1905. Photo of one...

Member Greg Were posed a question on our Facebook page back in February: - “Amongst other ships, my great-great-grandfather was skipper...

I am attempting to establish the vessel that this “Good Luck Anchor” came from: - The plaque accompanying the anchor states that it was...

Following the discovery of a grave at Cheltenham Cemetery, I sent the following email message off to info@sjofartsmuseum.ax : - “Hello, I found this photo of an unknown sailing ship on the grave of Fredrik Movall who was from Lemland in the Aland Islands. He came to Australia and stayed (in South Australia?) I also found this photo that features Fredrik: - Fredrik Movall can be seen “Seated in the front row to the right” in this photo Further, “According to “Sailors from sai