New Additiion to the Port Adelaide Anchor Trail and Updated Guide
A recently discovered anchor has now been added to the Port Adelaide Anchor Trail. This latest addition brings the total of the anchors on the trail to 20 at 15…
Slides from the Matthew Flinders’ HMS Investigator Anchor Display at the South Australian Maritime Museum
The display of the HMS Investigator anchor at the South Australian Maritime Museum includes these slides from the anchor recovery expedition: – They are part of a collection in the…
Port Adelaide Anchor Trail August 2025 Update
QR codes linking to information about anchors were attached to most of the anchors on the Port Adelaide Anchor Trail during ‘working bees’ in August 2025. During these ‘working bees’,…
The unveiling of the Sea Wolves Dive Club’s anchor & plaque
My wife and I attended the official unveiling of the plaque for the Sea Wolves Dive Club’s historic admiralty anchor now on display at the entrance of the Port Noarlunga…
Port Noarlunga Anchor Trail
There are several known anchors to be seen at Port Noarlunga. Certainly, most of them (4) are underwater and can only be visited by divers. There are, however, now three…
The old ‘Ordnance Store’ that became the Radford Auditorium
A building in Adelaide now known as the Radford Auditorium was originally an ‘Ordnance Store’ (or old military store) built in 1867. It was refurbished in 1972 and became a…
Photos that seem to show the Investigator’s anchor being transferred to a warehouse
More photos (slides) have come to hand since writing Photos of the Recovery of the Lost Anchors from Matthew Flinders’ Ship HMS Investigator – Marine Life Society of South Australia…
Update on the North Haven Marine Anchor
This (Admiralty Pattern) stocked anchor is located out the front of North Haven Marine, Shop 1, 23 Alexa Rd, North Haven: – (Anchor site No. 1 0n current trail guide…
The Solway (& the South Australian’s) Anchor
A large, stocked anchor thought to be from the 1837 shipwreck Solway is located by the entrance to the National Trust Museum at 1 Flinders Parade, Victor Harbor. The Solway…
More on the Wreck of the Duilius
It seems that there have been several spellings/miss-spellings for the name of the ship Duilius wrecked in Guichen Bay in 1853. Here is one such discrepancy, in “Wrecks on the…