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Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1900
Image appears to be copied from an original postcard, maker unidentified|Also and enlarged copy of photograph 27 x 17Colour photograph of the LookOut Tree on Jemmys Point, shows a dead standing grey box tree supported by two logs and with a ladder over thirty feet long attached for access to the four branches used as a viewing platform. One person sitting on top, man in Indian dress halfway up ladder. Lakes Entrance Victoria.LookOut Tree at Lakes Entrance Cunninghame, Victoriahistoric sites, navigation, transport -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Bulmer H D, 1915
Also copy 15 x 10 same imageBlack and white photograph copied from a postcard of the LookOut Tree on Jemmys Point, shows the standing dead grey box tree supported by two heavy logs, a 35 foot ladder attached for access to top. Lakes Entrance Victoria.historic sites, navigation, people -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard, 1929
Also, two enlargements, 10 x 15 cm, and one enlargement 17 x 25 cm, all purchasedSmall format postcard showing the first observation lookout erected on Jemmys Point, Lakes Entrance, Victoria, showing a timber structure about 30 feet high with a fenced platform on top, narrow ladder leading straight to top from ground. Five people on ground, three on platform. Old LookOut Tree standing in background.On reverse, 'LookOut Jemmys Point, Lakes Entrance'historic sites, navigation, fences -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Instrument - Parallel Ruler
Roller bearing parallel ruler in timber case.navigation, drafting, instrument -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Map - Survey Chart, J. P. Larkin, Re-Survey of Queenscliff Channel, 29 October 1928
A paper chart showing sounding around the Queenscliff Channel dated 1928Victoria Port Phillip October 1928, Re survey of Queenscliff Channelqueenscliff channel, surveying, navigation -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Lamp - Navigation light, acetylene type, c. 1980
Used as channel lights, Corio Bay channel. Bob Hodgson purchased light from Geelong Harbour Trust c. 1980, purchasing four for $20.00.Navigation light, acetylene type. Automatic swtich using light intensity detector. Bronze body, painted red, glass lens cover, dioptric lens with red chimney. Brass hinged chimney. Toggle latch. Light-senstiive switch mounted on side.Front: LIDINGO A.G.A. SWEDEN Back: (no inscriptions) -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Instrument (Item) - Compass Navigational Type P8 Reference G6A/0726. ( 2 Units), Compass Navigational Type P8 Reference G6A/0726
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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Functional object - Navigation Side Lamp, early 20th century
This pair of navigational lamps or lights was fitted to the vessel S.S. Rowitta when it was renovated to become a display passenger ferry at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village from 1976-2015. Navigation lamps are used to indicate a vessel’s position and direction of travel to other vessels nearby. This system of coloured lamps is standardised throughout the world for all marine vessels, red is for port and green for starboard, (red is for the boats right hand side). These navigation lamps were not the original fittings for this vessel but had come from a similar vessel of the same era of the early 1900’s. The history of the lamp fittings at this time is unknown. SS ROWITTA: - The 1909 steam ferry, SS Rowitta, was installed as an exhibit at Flagstaff Hill in 1975 and was enjoyed by many visitors for 40 years. Rowitta was a timber steam ferry built in Hobart in 1909 using planks of Huon and Karri wood. She was a favourite of sightseeing passengers along Tasmania’s Tamar and Derwent rivers for 30 years. Rowitta was also known as Tarkarri and Sorrento and had worked as a coastal trading vessel between Devonport and Melbourne, and Melbourne Queenscliff and Sorrento. In 1974 Rowitta was purchased by Flagstaff Hilt to convert into a representation of the Speculant, a historic and locally significant sailing ship listed on the Victorian Heritage Database. (The Speculant was built in Scotland in 1895 and traded timber between the United Kingdom and Russia. Warrnambool’s P J McGennan & Co. then bought the vessel to trade pine timber from New Zealand to Victorian ports and cargo to Melbourne. She was the largest ship registered with Warrnambool as her home port, playing a key role in the early 1900s in the Port of Warrnambool. In 1911, on her way to Melbourne, she was wrecked near Cape Otway. None of the nine crew lost their lives.) The promised funds for converting Rowitta into the Speculant were no longer available, so she was restored back to her original configuration. She represented the importance of coastal traders to transport, trade and communication in Australia times before rail and motor vehicles. Sadly, in 2015 the time had come to demolish the Rowitta due to her excessive deterioration and the high cost of on-going repairs. She had given over 100 years of service and pleasure to those who knew her. These lamps are an historical example of navigational equipment used in the early 20th century, adhering to a navigational standard that is worldwide, and a design similar to what is still being used today. They were used on the display vessel at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village as an aid to maritime education. The Rowitta represents the importance of coastal traders to transport, trade and communication along the coast of Victoria, between states, and in Australia before rail and motor vehicles. The vessel was an example of a ferry built in the early 20th century that served many different roles over its lifetime of over 100 years. Two side navigation ship's lamps, quarter circle shaped metal boxes with glass window and removable lid. The lid attaches to the box using four brackets, wingnuts and screws that swing down out of the way. The window of double-thickness glass is inserted on the curved side of the box and attached by screws around the frame. The inner glass panel is coloured according to the lamp’s use; port is red and starboard green. The port lamp has a round hole cut into each of the two straight sides and an electrical fitting inside. The starboard lamp also has a hole in each straight side (one with a threaded fitting). Its lid has an additional cross bar on top that has a circular space in the centre, nuts and screws fit through holes in the ends and a folding handle is attached across the centre space. The lamps were once fitted onto the vessel Rowitta. The starboard lamp has an inscription stamped into the metal. Impressed on 3689.2; “STARBOARD PATT 8025” flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, flagstaff hill maritime village, navigation lamp, navigation light, navigation equipment, starboard patt 8025, ship’s fitting, rowitta, tarkarri, speculant, purdon & featherstone of hobart, passenger ferry 1909, vessel, display rowitta, display passenger ferry, sorrento -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document (Item) - Mirage Iii O Tg12-4
Description: MIRAGE AVIONICS WEAPONS AND NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEMS 20 PAGES Level of Importance: . -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph
S.s.Casino moored at the Belfast and Koroit Steam Navigation Company wharf in Port FairyBlack & white photograph of ship at wharfship, boat, sea, river, ss casino -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph
T.S,S.Coramba owned by the Belfast and Koroit Steam Navigation Company in the 1930'sPhotographship, boat, sea, river, port fairy, belfast and koroit steam navigation company -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Tools, Compass, 20thC
A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions, or "points". -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - Technical Manual Illustrated Parts Breakdown Electrical System Aircraft: Bandeirante T.O.Emb110 P1-4
Description: Radio communications Navigation Systems EMB 110P1 Publisher: Embraer Level of Importance: World. RAAF -
Bendigo Military Museum
Equipment - FLYING INSTRUMENTS, AIR NAVIGATION
Flying instruments used by Flight Lieutenant Ian A. Lyons. Part of the Flight Lieutenant Ian A. 'Joe' Lyons MBE Collection. See Catalogue No. 5374P for his service record.Rectangular padded and sectioned wooden box containing seventeen brass, stainless steel and plastic air navigation instruments. The box is covered in black leatherette and hinged with small brass hinges. A silver coloured clasp secures the box closed. A metal plate is pinned to the middle of the lid.equipment, flying instruments, air navigation, flight lieutenant ian a. lyons -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - Kalimna Jetty, 1930c
Black and white photograph of Kalimna Jetty. It shows a substantial jetty and landing, storage shed and boat shed, navigation light on end of jetty, many people on jetty, perhaps waiting for arrival of passenger steamer, in background steep cliffs bordering shoreline. Lakes Entrance Victoriawaterways, topography, jetties -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard - Kalimna Jetty, Valentine Series, 1930c
Also Black and white copy print 15 x 25Black and white postcard of Kalimna Jetty. It shows a substantial timber jetty with rail line and goods trolley, storage shed with square water tank. Passenger launch and four rowing boats moored at jetty. Navigation light towards end of jetty. Lakes Entrance VictoriaKalimna Jetty and Reeves Sound Lakes Entrance Series M 3024 jetties, waterways, boats and boating -
Clunes Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH LONE PINE
AVIATION NAVIGATIONAL AID? POINT DEPICTING THE TOP OF MOUNT BECKWITH - GOOD TALKING POINT FOR VISITORS AND LOCALSTINTED COLURED PHOTOGRAPH LONE PINE STANDING ON TOP OF MOUNT BECKWORTH.MOUNT BECKWORTH PINE TREEphotographs, lone pine, mt beckworth -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph, S.S. Casino moored at Casino wharf, Port Fairy
S.S. Casino flagship of the Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Company, Purchased 1882. Built in Dundee, ScotlandFirst ship purchased by the Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Company in 1882Photographship, boat, sea, river, port fairy, s s casino, belfast & koroit steam navigation company -
Port Fairy Historical Society Museum and Archives
Photograph
Pt Fairy Wharf Fish Train 1942 .Belfast and Koroit Steam Navigation Company office on the left of the photographblack and white photograph of train shunting a wagon to the wharftransport, rail, road, gipps street, wharf, train -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1920c
Copied from photograph in possession of J WhadcoatBlack and white photograph showing stone piers at entrance to Gippsland Lakes from ocean - Bass Strait. Eastern pier on left, dune and western pier on right. Cranes and some work sheds on left. Navigation light on tip of Bullock Island on extreme right. Lakes Entrance Victoriajetties, waterways, topography, township -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Book, Kath Bentley et al, River of Islands: Charts of the River Murray Yarrawonga Weir to Hume Dam, November 1983
Book contains information and sketch maps to aid in the navigation of the Murray River, with advice on hazards to look for as these will change over time.74 page A4 book with a drawing of a boat on the Murray River on the coverAutographed on the title page by the authors: "9-1-84 Leon Bentley | Kath Bentley"murray river, boating, river navigation, boating safety -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Functional object - Sun Compass
This type of kit was used by the Regiment for vehicular cross country navigation. The crew commander would stand in front of the vehicle with a prismatic compass and guide the driver to align the vehicle on the back bearing of the required direction of travel. The discs were set for time of day and the required bearing and the driver would watch the compass and steer so that the shadow of the gnome was on the arrow. The compass would be re-set about every half hour to adjust for rotation of the Earth. In featureless country navigation was by dead reckoning by direction travelled by compass and distance travelled from the vehicle odometer. Armoured vehicles are now equipped with GPS navigation aids rendering the sun compass obsolete Type of equipment used by the Regiment on exercisesMetal construction. One fixed and one rotatable aluminium disc with a vertical steel gnome at the centre. The lower disc is marked with bearings in mils, the upper with time of day. There is a rotatable aluminium arrow under the 2 discs. A 33 mm dia spirit level is fixed to the top disc.On spirit level "GENERAL #847"daytime use only, navigation aid -
Montmorency/Eltham RSL Sub Branch
Equipment - Navigational Computer
Rectangular calculating instrument with (1) 'hinged lid' fitted with circular rotating dial for setting/reading altitude, speed, distance and temperature, (2) notebook inside lid, (3) circular dial with perspex cover, beneath which is (4) graph chart, moveable up-and-down by means of rotating knob on side of device. Curved brackets and elasticized straps on back for strapping onto pilot's leg.R.A.A.F. Ident. No. G6B/145 Serial No. WG/2233 COMPUTER NAVIGATIONAL Mk. III D. (Other inscriptions including instructions for use and scales for various measurements) "AB" hand written on strap (owner's initials?) -
Orbost & District Historical Society
book, Exploring the Gippsland Lakes 1882, January 2010
The original book was published in Melbourne by M.L. Hutchinson, 1881. This edition was specially compiled for the Lakes Navigation Company by J. Blackwood Howie.A small book - Exploring the Gippsland Lakes 1882. this is a republication of a C 1882 book titled Tourists and Sportsman's Guide to the Gippsland Lakes and Surrounding Country. This pocket reading republishes a story from 1882 that was aimed at promoting tourism to the Gippsland Lakes. It starts with a train trip from Melbourne to Sale and then boards a steamer to experience the Gippsland Lakes. The book was published by Paynesville Maritime Museum in January 2010. It was compiled by J. Howie Blackwood.gippsland-lakes travel tourism-east-gippsland -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1920 c
Black and white photograph showing S S Gippsland leaving Kalimna Jetty heading towards Metung. View of jetty shows five men on jetty, three of them manhandling the trolley loaded with goods, probably off the Gippsland. Three small row boats tied to jetty. Two small jetties on far right and small launch. Kalimna Lakes Entrance VictoriaKalimna Jetty Gippsland Lakesjetties, navigation, ships and shipping, topography -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Silver Reflections Studio, 1924c
Black and white photograph showing view of New Works. Village on dunes at entrance to Gippsland Lakes from ocean - Bass Strait. View shows SS Gippsland at New Works wharf, Cunninghame Arm, part of Bullock Island and mouth of North Arm, post and rail fence along roadway down Jemmys Point. Lakes Entrance Victoriawaterways, jetties, machinery, navigation -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 2000
Colour photograph of aerial view of the entrance at Lakes Entrance, shows part of Rigby Island, Bullock Island, North Arm, Cunninghame Arm and buildup of sand on ocean shores of sand hummocks. Lakes Entrance Victoriahouses, ocean, navigation, waterways -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Postcard, Valentine Series, 1940
Black and white small format postcard of the timber observation lookout at Jemmys Point, Lakes Entrance, Victoria, showing the timber tower with observation deck, signal light on steel tower nearby. Top of old standing lookout tree just visible.Jemmys Point Lakes Entrancehistoric sites, navigation, world war 1939 - 1945, room display -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Book - Aviation Ground School Training - Cadet System, The Nes Cadet System of Ground School Training
Text for ground school cadets on navigation, meteorology, radio beam flying & orientation , circa 1930sManual style booknon-fictionText for ground school cadets on navigation, meteorology, radio beam flying & orientation , circa 1930snavigation, meterorology, radio beam fl, orientation circa 1930s -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Document - Navigation Chart, Admiralty Office, Lady Bay and Warrnambool Harbour, 1893
This navigation cart of Lady Bay and Warrnambool Harbour was originally surveyed in 1870 but this version includes the update for magnetic variation in 1893. Since the printing of the chart several annotations have been added. These include an additional stamp dated 15-8-1910, a handwritten comment across the top of the page dated August 1910, and another handwritten comment regarding the ‘Proposed Extension of Dock’ dated 19-2-1925, plus connected drawings, notes and figures. The 1925 proposal on this chart may have been a reaction to the Royal Commission of 1923, when the damaged stonework on the seaward side of the Warrnambool Breakwater, caused by the action of the sea, was the subject of enquiry. A conference between the Public Works, Water Commission and the Harbour Trust concluded that it would less costly to make repairs to prevent further damage rather than replaced the damage portion of the wall. A contract was raised in late 1924 to deposit rubble on the damaged side of the breakwater to minimise the Southern Ocean’s destructive action and work had started by August 1925. The Breakwater construction had begun in 1874 and was completed in 1890. The Victorian Government had commissioned Sir John Coode, a British harbour engineer, to present a plan to complete the Warrnambool Breakwater but his original plan was too expensive. He prepared a revised plan for a shorter structure. The construction proved to be too short to protect adequately from the weather and didn't allow enough depth for larger vessels to come into port. The decreasing trade was further affected by siltation in the bay due to the breakwater, and the completion of the railway line. The situation of the harbour became a real problem by 1910 and required continuous dredging. In 1914 the Breakwater was extended but proved to be a failure because the work began to subside and by 1920 about two thirds of the harbour was silted up. Alterations made in the 1920's increased the silting problem and by the 1940's the harbour was no longer used. More alterations were made in the 1950's and 1960's. This chart is significant for its strong connection to the maritime history of Warrnambool Harbour and Lady Bay and the Warrnambool Breakwater. The Warrnambool Breakwater is registered as a place of significance on the Victorian Heritage Database (VHR H2024). The Warrnambool Breakwater is one of the most important late 19th century maritime engineering projects in Victoria and significant in the development of Victorian coastal shipping. It is also significant for its connection with British harbour engineer, Sir John Coode. The chart is a historical record of structures existing in 1893; the Warrnambool Jetties, Warrnambool Breakwater in Lady Bay, the leading lights (lighthouses), streets, roads, bridges and many buildings. It also shows the lay of the land and seabed. Navigation Chart: Lady Bay and Warrnambool Harbour, Australia - South Coast - Victoria. Surveyed by Nav. Lieut. H.J. Stanley, R.N., 1870. Updated for Magnetic Variation, 1893. The rectangular chart is printed on heavy cream paper. Stamps are shaped rectangular, oval and round. Around the Breakwater and Jetty area are handwritten notes, dotted and joined lines, numbers and signatures, and shading of red and green. The chart shows the surrounds of Warrnambool Harbour, Lady Bay, the Breakwater and Jetty, roads, bridges and the streets in Warrnambool. It has sounding details, and angles of line from the leading lights.Stamp, rectangular, including "AUG 1910" Stamp, double oval " - - - -CHART" Stamp, hand drawn, red circle, with "B" inside Hand written note "22-8-1910 - - - - - of surveying C. Ca - - - request of 15-8-10 [initials] " Notes and lines in red pen, including a grid of sounding numbers: "1300" "1050" "1200" "Possible Extension of Dock" "19-2-25" "Dock Dredged to 20 Ft" Notes and lines in blue pen "Extension of Dock to accommodate vessels drawing 20 Feet" and "Light not visible south of this line" Red dots (4) with yellow highlight at both leading lights, breakwater and jettyflagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum & village, maritime museum, maritime village, shipwreck coast, map, chart, navigation chart, plan, lady bay, warrnambool harbour, port of warrnambool, breakwater, jetty, pier, dock extension, proposed extension, vhr h2024, 1870, 1893, 1910, 1925, warrnambool town late 1800s, warrnambool streets late 1800s royal commission, 1923, public works, water commission, harbour trust, victorian harbours, sir jon coode