240 p.fictionThe tale of a journey to Australia and life in gold rush Victoria. There is a good account of arrival in Melbourne in the 1850s.gold discoveries victoria, gold rush

Account of Turner Brothers bakery, built in the 1880s on the Plenty Road at South Yan Yean (now Mernda)1 p. text and photographyan yean, mernda, turners bakery, turner family

Navy blue cover with gilded title. viii, 216 p., [30] p. of plates : ill., 2 maps, ports. Bibliography: p. 208-210.non-fictionAn account of the Volum family, largely Peterhead in Scotland, where they were involved with whaling, but also in Geelong Australia, Ceylon, England and Peru. It has fourteen appendices on a variety of topics plus forty-one illustrations.volum collection, geelong, peterhead, scotland, captain, seafaring, whaling, brewery, paper mill, mission to seafarers

No dust jacketnon-fictionsea voyage, allan villiers (1903-1982), keith oliver, donation, windjammers

non-fictionThe book tells the story of the merchant fleet during World War II, the non-fighting service in which 32,000 men died, yet whose essential role has never been fully appreciated. Action seen by merchantment and their crews is told with insight, from the early days of war to the day of victory on the Rhine, the complete operation of the fleet is examined, with vivid accounts of the horrific losses undegone, the heroism of the crews and the sacrificies endured.merchant navy, ww2

non-fictionOn August 21, 1940, a Nazi raider torpedoed the British merchantman Anglo-Saxon and machine-gunned the survivors as they tried to escape in their lifeboats. One little boat escaped with seven men. Five of them perished, but Robert Tapscott and Wilbert Widdicombe endured for seventy full days and 2,300 miles to landfall on the other side of the Atlantic. This is the incredible account of their ordeal, one of the most thrilling stories of the sea ever written--and one that almost never came to light. "It has seldom happened," writes William McFee in the introduction, "that a narrative so circumstantial, so entirely stripped of all humbug and false sentiment, has come out of the depths of the sea, to inspire us with admiration for human valor." In the tradition of the Shackleton adventure and Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, Two Survived is an unforgettable true story of survival against the very longest odds.ww2, survivors, german submarines, robert tapscott, wilbert widdicombe

250 pages, Appendices, Bibliography and Indices, extensively illustratednon-fictionThis high-quality book is the extraordinary story of an ordinary little ship that had a long and eventful life. Perhaps few Australian coasters have had a more interesting and varied history. Built in Scotland in 1912 for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Tambar worked as a lifeline to isolated river and island communities, first in New South Wales, then for the Tasmanian Government and Holymans in Bass Strait (King Island) and as the last steamer serving the Gippsland Lakes. In between she even spent a few years in Papua New Guinea. When World War II broke out, Tambar was commissioned into the RAN as an auxiliary minesweeper, but after the terrible Darwin air raid in 1942 became the first vessel of the newly formed Salvage Board, later assisting in the search for survivors of the Battle of the Coral Sea. Returning to Bass Strait in 1944 for a few more years, she then spent the 1950s on standby as a salvage vessel in Melbourne, working on Merilyn, Terawhiti, E.J. Fairnie, and River Burnett. Craig Mair grew up in Grangemouth, Scotland where Tambar was built, and became interested after inheriting a builder's model from his father. He has consulted thousands of records, including the ship's logs, tracked down witnesses, and assembled over 100 photographs and maps to give a unique insight into Tambar's story, and coastal Australia in the middle decades of the twentieth century, before roads took over the transport task. Besides many colourful stories of shipwrecks and strandings, strange cargoes, salty characters, exotic places, wartime air raids, and salvage jobs, the book includes a definitive account of the worst Second World War 'friendly fire' incident in Australian waters in Moreton Bay in 1942.naa, australian national line, interest group, moreton bay, tambar, coaster, ships

Documents the minutes from the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild from the 5th of May, 1953 to 2nd of November, 1960. The minutes lists the dates, locations and attendance of all meetings during this time. There are several lose documents in the book, such as an Annual Report, Accounts and Requests for Subscriptions, which have been used at note paper.This is a record of all members, meetings and activities undertaken by the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild between 1953 to 1960.Front cover: LHLG MINUTES / 3/53 - 12/60 handwritten on a white sticker.handwriting, minutes, 1960, williamstown, 1953, lhlg, ladies harbour lights guild, 1953-1960, seamen's mission, hlg, lhlg minutes, dora simpson

General introduction to the foundation and development of the sheep and cattle industries of Victoria.284 p., hard cover, printed in blacksheep, cattle, victoria

"Wrath of the Myndie" is a fictional account of the coming of white settlers to the Yarra Valley and their impact on the indigenous Wurundjeri people. 369p., illus. Paperback.Signed on title page by author "Mick Woiwod 2014"the last cry, mick woiwod, wurundjeri, yarra valley

Account of Wing Commander F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas' work in organising the Resistance in France during World War 2268 p. pbk.f. f. e. yeo-thomas, world war 2

Account of escapes by Allied POWs from German camps during World war 2576 p. illus. pbkworld war 2

Account of a World War 1 British fighter pilot.208 p. pbk.

Account of the author's capture by the Japanese forces in Malaya in 1941, and experiences in prisoner of war camps in Kuala Lumpur, Changi and Thailand.18 x 11 cmprisoner of war camps, world war 2. malayan campaign