Update to the Port Adelaide Anchor Trail 19/3/24
The Port Adelaide Anchor Trail tends to be quite dynamic with occasional changes occurring. Some of these changes are due to ongoing developments in the Port Adelaide area. I have…
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The Port Adelaide Anchor Trail tends to be quite dynamic with occasional changes occurring. Some of these changes are due to ongoing developments in the Port Adelaide area. I have…
Almost 3 years after writing The Mystery Wreck at Cape Jervis, more information has unexpectedly come to light. The article stated, “In June 1968, a “Staff Reporter” for The News…
David Muirhead visited the Titanic Memorial museum in Belfast, Ireland whilst visiting the UK recently. He sent us a few photos of his visit to the Memorial. Here they are,…
More information has come to hand since I wrote Large Anchors Found at Normanville and More About the Shipwrecks at Normanville. Firstly, I accidentally found a copy of a letter…
The publication of my article Large Anchors Found at Normanville may have been a little hasty. It did, however, lead to discussions with local Normanville residents David Muirhead, Des Gubbin…
A couple of large anchors were found at Normanville between the late 1960s and late 1970s. Either of these two anchors may have been from the wreck of the Guldax,…
What connections are there between the wreck of the Santiago in the North Arm of the Port River and the Willyama wreck at Marion Bay? Since writing Update of the…
I have revisited the wreck of the Santiago several times since writing The Rusting Wreck of the Santiago last November, mostly by kayak. My most recent visit, however, included a…
The historic (Lighthouse Supply and Navigational Aids Maintenance Ship) MV Cape Don is a “part of the maritime history of Australia”. (Photo courtesy of MV Cape Don Society) The Cape…
According to Captain Arthur Wright – Ancestor History, Captain Arthur Wright was a seafaring captain who brought “supplies, prisoners and free settlers from England, Ireland and Scotland to Hobart” (then…