As I reported on our Facebook page on 17th June, “We have now received (part of) the Temme collection from Brian Morrison. It fills a drawer and a half of a filing cabinet. The Temme Collection is a 28-volume series of research notes relating to shipwrecks on South Australian coasts from 1836-1990. Compiled by Ronald Temme, the research notes comprise copies of mostly newspaper reports, occasional articles from magazines and books, and extracts from official documents related to shipwrecks and shipping incidents. (The full collection includes a companion card index which may be used to access this information. The Temme Index of SA Shipwrecks is a companion card index containing alphabetical and chronological lists from 1836-1991. Cards give ship name, date, and usually the nature of the shipwreck or shipping incident.)”
“The 'research notes' include some photos and pictures of ships. Brian says that we have "everything the museum had at the time", although it seems that some items may be missing.”
Michelle Morrison brought the files from Kangaroo Island over to the mainland for me. I just had to drive down to Sheidow Park to pick them up from her. That was the easy part. I then had to do much sorting out and tidying up.
I had already prepared a little space in my study and filing cabinet for them, which was just as well. I barely had enough room to take the collection.
There are many files covering many wrecks and other ships. They aren’t, however, all SA wrecks or ships. Then there are some files covering other topics such as jetties or whaling.
Several of the files are for wrecks that occurred each year from 1869 to 1899. (The full card index is supposed to cover wrecks from 1836 to 1991. The 28-volume series is supposed to cover wrecks from 1836 to 1990.)
My sorting and tidying work involved some provision of stationery items, such as extra file folders and suspension hangers. I tried sorting through some of the ‘miscellaneous’ files and separating items which could be filed on their own. I made up a few new additional files for some individual topics. After a while of doing that, I made up a few files for topics under a few different letters of the alphabet. These can probably be broken down to files for individual topics, but I have had to keep them in a separate cabinet drawer.
Those files for wrecks that occurred each year from 1869 to 1899 are also stored in that separate drawer due to space restrictions.
There were three items that went straight in to my SAAS/SUHR filing cabinet. There were some items that went straight into my ‘jetty’ cabinet drawer. I have also been able to share some of the information received with interested persons such as Mark Tozer (Titanic) and Eric Koch (Vivid).
Some files are considerable, whilst others are scant. They all complement the SAAS files either in my care or in the library at the Port Environment centre, plus my own private collection.
My thanks go to Brian & Michelle Morrison for their donation and assistance in this matter.
I am now able to list the files in our (part) collection: -
Cables and old-style anchors for ships of various tonnage, from P.Hedderwick's Marine Architecture, Edinburgh 1830, P. 376, plus Dimensions of old-style anchors from Falconer's Marine Dictionary, 1815 Edition (see above)
Abraham Rydburg
Aeolus (SE) 1894
Archibald Russell
Beatrice
C.B. Petersen
Cap Pilar
Cowry (Yankalilla) 1889
Cutty Sark
Discovery
Ditton
Dorothy H. Sterling
Dunbar
E.R. Sterling
Elizabeth (and) Rebecca
Enterprise
Fanny Wright
Favell
SS Ferret
Fides
Forest Friend
Freebridge
Garthneill
Garthpool
Glen Park
Glenrosa
Grace Harwar
Grecian
Guldax
Helen B. Sterling
Hougomont
Ida
Jetty lists & depths
Joseph Conrad
Kobenhavn
Killoran
KV Kruse
L’Avenir
Lawhill
Leicester
(The) Loch Line
Loch Sloy
Lotus
Lucretia
Magdalene Vinnen
Manhow
Marion (1862)
Marion (1851)
Melbourne
Misc. windjammers & clippers
Moshula
Mozart
Newfield
Nora Creina
Old Kensington
Olivebank
Pamir
Pareora
Parma
Passat
Penang
Pommern
Ponape
Priwall
Ruby
S.E. wreck sites
Sailing ship race
Secret
Shipwreck lists & misc.
Smoky Bay & Anxious Bay
Star of Alaska
Tallships
Tenterden
Thermopylae
Thuraka
Tigress
Tingira (Sobraon)
Titanic
Torrens
Treasure map poster
Triumph
Tyburnia
Ullock
Uribes
Varoon
Vasa
Viking
Vivid
Welling
Whaling (KI & South coast SA)
Winterhude
You Yangs
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