A Spanish ship supposedly buried in sand between Warrnambool and Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia.The Mahogany Ship. J.K. Loney. 2nd ed. Dimboola (Vic); J.K. Loney; 1974. 24 p.; illus, maps. Soft cover. ISBN 0 909244 03 0mahogany ship; shipwrecks; j.k. loney; painting; warrnambool; port fairy; belfast;, mahogany ship; shipwrecks; j.k. loney; painting; warrnambool; port fairy; belfast;

The QUEENSCLIFFE lifeboatLifeboatsblack & white photograph of the Lifeboat QUEENSCLIFFE, probably after the early 1930'sReverse - "Fisherman's Pier (demolished about 1955) - (c1947-49) - lifeboat shed before moved to new pier because of "sanding-up"- P & H [Ports & Harbour] shed on left [on S arm of Fisherman's Pier]"community information, the queenscliffe lifeboat

Albert Edward Corrie VX47191, 6th Div Postal Unit.1. Black & White Photograph - Cemetery, Memorial, Headstones. 2. Black & White Photograph - Truck on Road 3. Black & White Photograph - Sand Hils, vehicles and 3 men on road, 4. Black & White Photograph - 3 uniformed soldiers.1. War Cemetery Jerusalem. 2. On the road to the Dead Sea. 3. Some of the hills on the road to the Dead Sea. 4. Hec McKinnon, CAPRT Cohen, Kirk White.photographs, ww2, postal unit

Enlarged from postcard produced for Mrs Allen to advertise Allen's Tearoom at the brow of Myer St hill, known as Allen's Hill to locals.|This is the paired before photograph showing the left hand side on Butchers paddock in the panoramic views, the right hand side number 01715. This photograph used in the 150 year Lakes Entrance 1858-2008 display.Black and white photograph of the township, taken from Allen's Hill, Myer St. It shows the town between Cunninghame Arm and North Arm, cleared and fenced paddocks in foreground, New Works village and sand hummocks in distance. Lakes Entrance Victoriaboats and boating, township, waterways, topography

The dredge 'Wombat' owned by John Carpenter, contractor for stage one of cutting the entrance from the lake through to ocean - Bass Strait. Photo shows channel partly dredged and men on work platform in front of dredge.Black and white photograph showing bucket dredge Wombat removing sand from between piers. Dunes on western side on left, lakes in background, hills of Kalimna and Nungurner in distance. Work platform in front of dredge with workers. Lakes Entrance Victoriajetties, occupation, waterways, public works

Black and white photograph showing wooden piers at entrance to Bass Strait from the Gippsland Lakes. Buildings on sand dunes, Bullock Island and rock groynes. Photo taken from Jemmys Point showing shrubbery in foreground. Lakes Entrance Victoriawaterways, topography, boats and boating, islands

Color photograph of Bullock Island. It shows the dredge Sandpiper working in Cunninghame Arm on the southern shore of Bullock Island. Dredged sand in background on island from previous dredging operations, Kalimna Heights and Jemmys Point in the background. Lakes Entrance Victoriaislands, topography, waterways, public works

Date made September 2005Colour photograph of the RMIT TAFE Educational Facility on Bullock Island, taken from Cunninghame Arm, in the back ground are communication towers on Kalimna Heights. The Kalimna escarpment contrasts with the low lying sand formation of Bullock Island. Lakes Entrance Victoriaislands, education, waterways

Colour photograph. Janet England, Chair of Trust, standing behind a lectern on the front steps of the QVWC building during the grand opening weekend. Several people are sanding behind J.E. Marion Lau left of frame. Jane Wade Right of frame. official events, historic buildings, cultural structures and establishments

Other black and white copy 17 x 25 01417.1Black and white postcard of the town, taken from the southern shore of the lake, showing residences, the Central Hotel, butcher shop, bluestone wall at lake edge, and two small jetties. Sand hills and natural vegetation in foreground. Lakes Entrance VictoriaLakes Entrance from the South Sidetownship, waterfront, retail trade

Also a Black and white copy 11.5 x 18Colour tinted postcard of the entrance from Bass Strait to the Gippsland Lakes. It shows two small buildings on Bullock Island, groyne from Bullock Island across Cunninghame arm, sand inside entrance at western pier. Lakes Entrance VictoriaLakes Entrance from Jemmys Pointislands, topography, waterways

3 Identical small format postcards 9 x 14Black and white small format postcard showing the town, North Arm bridge, Cunninghame Arm, sand hummocks, boat harbour, tourist launch approaching North Arm, power poles on lower side of road cutting. Lakes Entrance VictoriaLakes Entrance from Jemmys Pointbridges, township

Black and white postcard of bridge across North Arm, showing post and rail fences on abutments; low tide in North Arm; town buildings and Club Hotel, Cunninghame Arm and sand hummocks with ocean in far distance. Lakes Entrance Victoriabridges, township

Possibly used for sieving bean seeds or corn seeds. Could have been a sand sieve.A round wooden framed sieve. It has a double frame with 1/4 " wire mesh held in through two frames. It has a galvanised iron inset.sieve agriculture tool

Associated with lecturer Paul Lambeth's photography class. Different textures and tonal qualities. skin and sand. Black and white photograph adhered to card. Tom Lambeth at Lorne.in pencil on verso "Tom Lambeth"tom lambeth, photography, paul lambeth.

View from Sloane Street of St George Sand Dump site with New Hospital under construction.stawell hospital

This toy monkey was part of the cargo from Fiji and amongst the articles salvaged from the wreck. The three-masted iron barque Fiji had been built in Belfast, Ireland, in 1875 by Harland and Wolfe for a Liverpool-based shipping company. The ship departed Hamburg on 22nd May 1891 bound for Melbourne, under the command of Captain William Vickers with a crew of 25. The ship’s manifest shows that she was loaded with a cargo of 260 cases of dynamite, pig iron, steel goods, spirits (whisky, schnapps, gin, brandy), sailcloth, tobacco, coiled fencing wire, concrete, 400 German pianos (Sweet Hapsburg), concertinas and other musical instruments, artists supplies including brushes, porcelain, furniture, china, and general cargo including candles. There were also toys in anticipation of Christmas, including wooden rocking horses, miniature ships, dolls with china limbs and rubber balls. On September 5th, one hundred days out from Hamburg in squally and boisterous southwest winds the Cape Otway light was sighted on a bearing differing from Captain Vickers’ calculation of his position. At about 2:30 am, Sunday 6th September 1891 land was reported 4-5 miles off the port bow. The captain tried to put the ship on the other tack, but she would not respond. He then tried to turn her the other way but just as the manoeuvre was being completed Fiji struck rock only 300 yards (274 metres) from shore. The place is known as Wreck Bay, Moonlight Head. Blue lights were burned and rockets fired whilst an effort was made to lower boats but all capsized or swamped and smashed to pieces. Two of the younger crewmen volunteered to swim for the shore, taking a line. One, a Russian named Daniel Carkland, drowned after he was swept away when the line broke. The other, 17-year-old able seaman Julius Gebauhr, a German, reached shore safely on his second attempt but without the line, which he had cut loose with his sheath knife when it became tangled in kelp. He rested on the beach and then climbed the steep cliffs in search of help. At about 10 am on Sunday morning a party of land selectors - including F. J. Stansmore, Leslie Dickson (or Dixon) and Mott - found Gebauhr. They were near Ryans Den, on their travels on horseback from Princetown towards Moonlight Head, and about 5km from the wreck. Gebauhr was lying in the scrub in a poor state, bleeding and dressed only in a singlet, socks and a belt with his sheath knife, ready for all emergencies. At first, they were concerned about his wild and shaggy-looking state and what seemed to be gibberish speech, taking him to be an escaped lunatic. They were reassured after he threw his knife away and realised that he was speaking half-English, half-German. They gave him food and brandy and some clothing and were then able to gain information about the wreck. Some of the men took him to Rivernook, a nearby guest house owned by John Evans, where he was cared for. Stansmore and Dickson rode off to try and summon help. Others went down to the site of the wreck. Messages for rescuing the rest of the crew were sent both to Port Campbell for the rocket rescue crew and to Warrnambool for the lifeboat. The S.S. Casino sailed from Portland towards the scene. After travelling the 25 miles to the scene, half of the Port Campbell rocket crew and equipment arrived and set up the rocket tripod on the beach below the cliffs. By this time the crew of Fiji had been clinging to the jib-boom for almost 15 hours, calling frantically for help. Mr Tregear from the Rocket Crew fired the line. The light line broke and the rocket was carried away. A second line was successfully fired across the ship and made fast. The anxious sailors then attempted to come ashore along the line but, with as many as five at a time, the line sagged considerably and some were washed off. Others, nearly exhausted, had to then make their way through masses of seaweed and were often smothered by waves. Only 14 of the 24 remaining on the ship made it to shore. Many onlookers on the beach took it in turns to go into the surf and drag half-drowned seamen to safety. These rescuers included Bill (William James) Robe, Edwin Vinge, Hugh Cameron, Fenelon Mott, Arthur Wilkinson and Peter Carmody. (Peter Carmody was also involved in the rescue of men from the Newfield.) Arthur Wilkinson, a 29-year-old land selector, swam out to the aid of one of the ship’s crewmen, a carpenter named John Plunken. Plunken was attempting to swim from Fiji to the shore. Two or three times both men almost reached the shore but were washed back to the wreck. A line was thrown to them and they were both hauled aboard. It was thought that Wilkinson struck his head on the anchor before s they were brought up. He remained unconscious. The carpenter survived this ordeal but Wilkinson later died and his body was washed up the next day. It was 26-year-old Bill Robe who hauled out the last man, the captain, who had become tangled in the kelp. The wreck of Fiji smashed apart within 20 minutes of the captain being brought ashore, and it settled in about 6m of water. Of the 26 men on Fiji, 11 in total lost their lives. The remains of 7 bodies were washed onto the beach and their coffins were made from timbers from wrecked Fiji. They were buried on the cliff top above the wreck. The survivors were warmed by fires on the beach then taken to Rivernook and cared for over the next few days. Funds were raised by local communities soon after the wreck in aid of the sufferers of the Fiji disaster. Captain Vickers was severely reprimanded for his mishandling of the ship. His Master's Certificate was suspended for 12 months. At the time there was also a great deal of public criticism of the slow and disorganised rescue attempt to save those on board. The important canvas ‘breech buoy’ or ‘bucket chair’ and the heavy line from the Rocket Rescue were in half of the rocket outfit that didn’t make it in time for the rescue: they had been delayed at the Gellibrand River ferry. Communications to Warrnambool were down so the call for help didn’t get through on time and the two or three boats that had been notified of the wreck failed to reach it in time. Much looting occurred of the cargo that washed up on the shore, with nearly every visitor leaving the beach with bulky pockets. One looter was caught with a small load of red and white rubber balls, which were duly confiscated and he was ‘detained’ for 14 days. The essence of peppermint mysteriously turned up in many settlers' homes. Sailcloth was salvaged and used for horse rugs and tent flies. Soon after the wreck “Fiji tobacco” was being advertised around Victoria. A Customs officer, trying to prevent some of the lootings, was assaulted by looters and thrown over a steep cliff. He managed to cling to a bush lower down until rescued. In 1894 some coiled fencing wire was salvaged from the wreck. Hundreds of coils are still strewn over the site of the wreck, encrusted and solidified. The hull is broken but the vessel’s iron ribs can be seen along with some of the cargo of concrete and pig iron. Captain Vickers presented Bill Robe with his silver-cased pocket watch, the only possession that he still had, as a token for having saved his life and the lives of some of the crew. (The pocket watch came with 2 winding keys, one to wind it and one to change the hands.) Years later Bill passed the watch to his brother-in-law Gib (Gilbert) Hulands as payment of a debt and it has been passed down the family to Gilbert Hulands’ grandson, John Hulands. Seaman Julius Gebauhr later gave his knife, in its hand-crafted leather sheath, to F. J. Stansmore for caring for him when he came ashore. The knife handle had a personal inscription on it. A marble headstone on the 200m high cliffs overlooking Wreck Beach, west of Moonlight Head, paying tribute to the men who lost their lives when Fiji ran aground. The scene of the wreck is marked by the anchor from Fiji, erected by Warrnambool skin divers in 1967. Amongst the artefacts salvaged from Fiji are bisque (or china) toys, (including miniature animals, and limbs from small bisque dolls), rubber balls, a slate pencil, a glass bottle, a sample of rope from the distress rocket and a candlestick holder. These items are now part of the Fiji collection at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, along with Captain Vickers’ pocket watch and Julius Gebauhr’s sheath knife. Flagstaff Hill’s Fiji collection is of historical significance at a State level because of its association with the wreck Fiji, which is on the Victorian Heritage Register VHR S259. The Fiji is archaeologically significant as the wreck of a typical 19th century international sailing ship with cargo. It is educationally and recreationally significant as one of Victoria's most spectacular historic shipwreck dive sites with structural features and remains of the cargo evident. It also represents aspects of Victoria’s shipping history and its potential to interpret sub-theme 1.5 of Victoria’s Framework of Historical Themes (living with natural processes). The Fiji collection meets the following criteria for assessment: Criterion A: Importance to the course, or pattern, of Victoria’s cultural history. Criterion B: Possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Victoria’s cultural history Criterion C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Victoria’s cultural history. Toy white China monkey in a seated pose. This solid, moulded toy is made of bisque (sometimes described as bisque or porcelain) and is creamy sand colour with a rust-coloured mark on its face. The surface is slightly pitted. It was salvaged from the wreck of the ship FIJI. 1891, china, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwrecked artefact, flagstaff hill maritime village, shipwreck coast, warrnambool, porcelain, moonlight head, wreck bay, cargo, bisque, toys, miniature animals, monkey

B.I.T. Papers Summer 1970-71, articles by various contributors, contents include, Building the Melbourne-Bendigo Railway, Engineering in Colonial Times, Source-Bordering Sand Dunes along the Loddon River & others, 66 pages with black and white photographs and maps..history, australian

Postcard, WW1, B&W image of ruined buildings on Sand Bag Corner after a German offensive at Erquinghem. Rubble and timber in foreground. Two figures, one with a wheelbarrow, at left picking over the rubble. Copy Z30 See also copy 1401.78postcard, postcard, ww1, france, erquinghem, ruins

Object. (1) Clear glass bottle with red and sand coloured labels front and back extolling the virtues of Eichorn's Remedy. (2) Box in same colour scheme intended to contain above bottle. (3) 3 oz bottle priced at 5/- (Shillings).Eichorn's Remedy Pty Ltd, 11c Castlereagh St, Sydney. Is 512.medicine, first aid, eichorn's remedy

One other copy same sizeBlack and white small format postcard of the entry to the North Arm, taken from Jemmys Point. It shows a steep cliffside above the calm waters, township of Lakes Entrance and Cunninghame Arm, and sand hummocks of southern shore in distance. Lakes Entrance VictoriaNorth Arm from Breakwater - Lakes Entrancetownship, waterways, topography

Black and white photograph of the man-made entrance from Bass Strait to the Gippsland Lakes taken from Jemmys Point. It also shows the rock groynes at Bullock Island with dredged sand starting to fill the basins to enlarge the island. Lakes Entrance Victoriawaterways, public works

Colour aerial photograph of the land forms around the entrance to the Gippsland Lakes, from Kalimna West to Lakes Entrance, North Arm to the ocean. Shows massive sand buildup between Rigby Island and Kalimna, also Bullock Island. Lakes Entrance Victoriawaterways, navigation

Also Postcard of boats at Post Office jettyTinted photograph of the Western Wharf, showing the jetty also known as the Post Office Jetty, two sheds signal light and masts of boats moored behind sand in foreground indicating low tide. Scrub covered hummocks in background. Lakes Entrance Victoriajetties, waterfront, boats and boating