In 2019, the Marine Life Society of South Australia was awarded a grant from the City of Port Adelaide Enfield to produce the first edition of the Port Adelaide Anchor Trail. The printed guide is in the process of finalisation now. The research work on this project was almost single-handedly carried out by our society’s president, Steve Reynolds, who has long-standing interests in the subjects of maritime heritage, shipwrecks and historic artifacts… in addition to the sport of diving and study of natural history. During the project, we determined that the land-based anchor trail would take the form of a single A3 format folding guide. We soon realised that all of the preparatory work spent studying anchors would need to be radically condensed in order to fit on the single sheet. As such, we have developed this list below to assist anyone interested in reading more deeply on the subject. The lists below may be extended from time to time. We will also offer a virtual tour of the trail through this website, following the initial distribution of the printed trail guide.
Further reading on anchors (oldest to newest)
| Title | Author(s) | Publisher | Edition | Year |
| A Treatise on the Anchor | Richard Pering | Kessinger | 1819 | |
| Explanatory Observations | William Rodger | The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1855 | 1852 | |
| A Treatise on Ships’ Anchors | George Cotsell | John Weale | 1856 | |
| Danforth anchor patent | Richard S. Danforth | United States Patent Office | 1951 | |
| Whale of a Shark | Ben Cropp | Seal | 1969 | |
| Shipwrecks Along the Southern Coast | G.A. Nayler | Wedneil | 1972 | |
| Ancient Anchors – technology and classification | Gerhard Kapitan | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration | 13.1 : 33-44 | 1984 |
| The Anchor, Fishery Bay, Eyre Peninsular | Peter Kentish, Terry Drew & Brenton Booth | The Society for Underwater Historical Research | 1985 | |
| The History and Development of English Anchors CA. 1550 to 1850 – A thesis by Harold Jobling | Harold Jobling | 1993 | ||
| Historical period stone anchors from Vijaydurg on the west coast of India | Sila Tripati, A.S. Gaur, Sundaresh and S.N. Bandodker | Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology | 22: 1–8 | 1998 |
| Anchors – An Illustrated History | Betty Nelson Curryer | Chatham | 1999 | |
| Big Anchor Project | Nautical Archaeological Society | 2010 | ||
| History of Anchor Design | Richard | 2011 | ||
| Big Anchor Project (Facebook group) | Nautical Archaeological Society | 2014 | ||
| History of Anchors | Vryhof | 2017 |
Articles about anchors written by Steve Reynolds
| Title | Publisher | Year | Month/Day |
| Maritime Archaeology & the Big Anchor Project | Marine Life Society of South Australia | 2013 | March |
| Port Noarlunga Anchor’s Anniversary | Marine Life Society of South Australia | 2017 | July 6th |
| Some Anchor Stories | Marine Life Society of South Australia | 2018 | March 31st |
| Historic anchor discovery at Edithburgh, South Australia | Marine Life Society of South Australia | 2018 | March 5th |
| More About the Star of Greece Anchor at Semaphore Jetty | Marine Life Society of South Australia | 2018 | May 7th |
| More About The ‘Edithburgh Anchor’ | Marine Life Society of South Australia | 2018 | May 15th |
| Anchors | The Gangway Bulletin | 2018 | October |
| More Anchors | The Gangway Bulletin | 2018 | November |
| David Witton anchor anniversary | Marine Life Society of South Australia | 2019 | September |
| Origins of the large anchor at Port Noarlunga reef | Marine Life Society of South Australia | 2020 | March 5th |