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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 written by David Muirhead’s father in 1970 on my computer. David’s father, David R. Muirhead, described the recovered anchor in […]
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 and Kym Clarke. Those discussions also led to further research by me. I duly discovered that there are several shipwrecks […]
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, a 556-ton wooden barque built in Norway in 1878. In October 2018, I wrote at https://stevesshipwrecksite.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-wreck-of-guldax.html , “The wooden barque […]
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 Don was built in at the Newcastle State Dockyards in NSW. The keel was laid in 1961 and the ship […]
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 Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land). Wright was born in St Mary, Islington, Middlesex, England to William and Catherine Wright in […]
There have been a few minor changes to some of the anchors on the Port Adelaide Anchor Trail, and some new anchors have been discovered. These new anchors are not, however, being added to the trail since they are on private property. Newly discovered anchors include these two at the […]
A STUDY OF PORT ADELAIDE’S ANCHORS by Steve Reynolds Every ship needs an anchor, yet anchors do not normally get the recognition that they deserve. Despite that, an anchor is the most recognizable shipwreck artefact, and it is anchors that provide us with the best seafaring memorials. Several different historical […]
Weekly walks along a section of the Port Adelaide Anchor Trail,learning about Port Adelaide’s famous maritime heritage, especially some of the large historic ship anchors making up the Port Adelaide Anchor Trail. Steve Reynolds, long-term resident of Port Adelaide & President of the Marine Life Society of SA, will lead […]
ANCHOR TRAIL UPDATE No.3 By Steve Reynolds I was able to promote our Port Adelaide Anchor Trail at the Merchant Navy Day ceremony held in Port Adelaide on 3rd September 2020. A framed copy of the trail guide was displayed during the ceremony and copies of the guide were available […]
Port Adelaide Anchor Trail Update by Steve Reynolds Since we completed the guide for our Port Adelaide Anchor Trail, I have remained busy on the project. I have, for example, distributed hard copies of the guide, along with a poster, to a large number of locations close to some of […]