The Cape Willoughby Lighthouse
The Cape Willoughby Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island celebrated its 173rd anniversary in January 2025. I possibly first wrote about the Cape Willoughby lighthouse in my article titled Old Jetties Associated…
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…
More about John Tait the jetty builder
My article titled Queries Received Concerning Jetties included the query “Do you have information on who built the jetties? I believe my ancestor John (Tait) may have been responsible for…
The final chapter about the Ben Larig/Benlarig?
This may well be the final chapter in my musing about the Ben Larig, the previous chapter being at https://mlssa.org.au/2024/02/24/benlarig-reportedly-the-mystery-wreck-at-cape-jervis/ . I have since been alerted to the availability of…
Queries Received Concerning Jetties
My 2005 article My love of jetties, some of my jetty work , Granite Island jetties & a list of S.A. jetties built from the 1800s to early 1900s resulted…
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…
The Australian Warships Scuttled as Dive Wrecks 1997-2011
Several Australian warships have been scuttled as dive wrecks since 1997. (The River Class frigate HMAS Derwent was also sunk off Rottnest Island, Western Australia during explosives testing on 21st…
KEITH MINCHIN, ADELAIDE ZOO, THE SNAKE PARK, KOALA FARM & THE OLD GLENELG JETTY AQUARIUM
After reading The Old Glenelg Jetty Aquarium, Jana Minchin recently told me that the Glenelg jetty aquarium was made by (Alfred) Keith Minchin. Keith was the son of Alfred Corker…
The South Australian Anchor Trail
Our new South Australian Anchor Trail is a combination of the Anchors in South Australia Google map and our Port Adelaide Anchor Trail. Some of the anchors on the Anchors…