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New Ground Gained on Gardener from Glenelg

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

Brad Willsea says that this anchor at the Fremantle shipwreck museum is from the 1852 wreck of the Eglinton: - The Eglinton’s anchor...

Jun 14, 20221 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

The public library of the SAAS is located at the Port Environment Centre, 27 North Parade, Port Adelaide. The centre is open to the...

Jun 3, 20225 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

In June 1770, explorer James Cook’s ship Endeavour lost an anchor when they ran aground on what is now called Endeavour Reef. The anchor...

May 20, 20221 min read

Explorer Matthew Flinders was onboard HMS Porpoise when it was wrecked in 1803 at a location now known as Wreck Reef. Ben Cropp found the...

May 20, 20221 min read

Further to Some of the Anchors from HMS Sirius, when some of the details were posted on our Facebook page, Tim Smith pointed out that his...

May 19, 20223 min read

Some of the Anchors from HMS Sirius by Steve Reynolds The best bower anchor from HMS Sirius was let go in Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island in...

May 17, 20221 min read