The harpoon would have been attached to a long harpoon pole. A rope would be attached to the harpoon and used like a fishing line to draw the whale, or other large catch, alongside the whaleboat. Harpoons have been used for thousands of years in the fishing industry to catch and secure large fish and other sea creatures such as whales. Harpoon, Double Flute 2'9" metal end with 5'9" wooden shank with rope spliced around metal section and whipped to wooden shank.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, harpoon, double flute, whaling, flluke, fishing, tool

Photograph. Harry Biggs Collection. 4 photographs (3 copies) of Eaglehawk Fire Brigade. C1900. The 13 men are all dressed in suits & standing in front of a hose reel. In the background can be seen the Murdoch sign above their business.organization, club/society, community, harry biggs collection, eaglehawk fire brigade

This tape is from the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia. This important event occurred on 21 June 1869. At this time the transmitted message was received on paper tape and later transcribed onto a telegram form for delivery. The original tape was presented to the Honourable Frederick Palgrave Barlee, Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, as a souvenir. "FPB" appears on an engraved shield on the lid. James Coats Fleming, the first telegraphist and later Superintendent of Telegraphs, sent the telegram. During 1875, Colonial Secretary Barlee transferred from Perth to Belize and then to Trinidad where he died in 1884. The fate of the case and spool, souvenir of that first telegram, was unknown. In July 1940, the WA Agent-General in London advised the Premier's Department in Western Australia that a Mrs EW Hillyer of Hertfordshire had the spool and case and was willing to sell it for ten guineas ($21). The Postmaster General's Department agree to the purchase and it duly arrived by registered mail. As a communications museum was planned in Melbourne, it was sent there to be included in the collection. Nothing more was heard until early 1980s when the relic arrived at the Post and Telecommunication museum in Perth. The case had been found in an old Melbourne strongroom where it had apparently been placed for safe-keeping and then forgotten. Initial attempts to decode the message on the tape were unsuccessful. Eventually, it was discovered that the Western Australian Telegraph Company, responsible for that first transmission, had devised its own code. A copy was obtained from the Battye Library and the message deciphered.This Morse tape is of historic significance as the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia. The occasion was momentous as the transition point between isolation and ease of connection for business and personal communications. The case is of aesthetic interest for the craftsmanship involved in the engraved text. Further, the tape has research potential owing to the unique information contained within this tape; that is, the code of the Western Australian Telegraph Company. This tape, may in turn be used to decode further messages sent by the Western Australian Telegraph Company. As the first telegraph message sent in Western Australia, this tape is rare. Despite a tumultuous journey from 1869 to the early 1980s, the tape's ceremonial wooden case provides provenance information which supports the tape's historic importance.Small wooden case (.1) holding a length of morse tape (.2) which was the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia . Wound onto a mother of pearl reel (.3). Accompanying signs and decoded message (.4,.5)..1 engraved on a metal shield shaped plaque on the lid: "WESTERN AUSTRALIAN / TELEGRAPHS / FPB" Inside: 'TRANSLATION OF REGISTER / TO THE CHAIRMAN OF FREMANTLE TOWN TRUST / His Excellency Colonel Bruce heartily congratulates the / inhabitants of Fremantle on this annihilation of distance / between the Port and the Capital, and he requests that this, / the first message, may be made publicly known. / GOVERNMENT HOUSE, / PERTH, June 21, 1869 / Transmitted 11 am / J.C.F."|.2: "Instrument Register / of the First / Telegraphic Message / in / Western Australia"|.3: "The first Telegraph Pole / in / WESTERN AUSTRALIA / was erected by / The Hon. Frederick P. Barlee / Colonial Secretary / on 19th Febr. 1869"telegram, commemorative item, morse inker, morse tape, morse code, code, postmaster-general's department

One of a collection of over 400 photographs in an album commenced in 1960 and presented to the Phillip Island & Westernport Historical Society by the Shire of Phillip IslandPhotograph of the newly built Shark fishing boat "Margaret White". built by George Armstrong at Newhaven. Fourteen people aboard and many people on the Newhaven Jetty in background.local history, photography, photographs, maritime technology, ship building, shark fishing boat "margaret white", shipping, shark fishing boats, newhaven jetty, john jenner, bryant west

Date made 9 September 2000Colour photograph showing people on board Peels ferry, Thunderbird, at jetty during weight tests. Two other fishing boats in background. Lakes Entrance Victoriaships and shipping, waterways, houses

Date made July 1989Colour photograph showing the entrance, lakes and Lady Harriets barge moored beside Bullock Island. Fishing boat coming through the entrance. Lakes Entrance Victoriajetties, public works, waterways

Vessel went aground 26 April 1981Colour photograph showing view of the stranded fishing vessel Dagaraad which ran aground on the 90 mile beach. Many people on beach. Lakes Entrance Victoriaships and shipping, shipwrecks, media, coast, fishing industry

Vessel went aground 26 April 1981Colour photograph of three fishing vessels standing offshore, just behind the breakers, beside the entrance bar, at the site of the salvage of the vessel Dageraad. Lakes Entrance Victoriaboats and boating, ocean, shipwrecks

'Marlene D' owner Brian BoldingColour photograph of a scallop fishing boat on the slips at Eastern Wharf. Name of boat not indicated, registration number V5R but identified as Marlene D. Lakes Entrance Victoriaboats and boating, shipwrecks, animals, coast

Date made 13 August 1981Colour photograph of the fishing boat St John Star aground between breakers and shoreline, 20 km east of Lakes Tyers, near Lakes Entrance, Victoria.fishing industry, ships and shipping, waterways, coast

A 'Bay' boat owner Michael Walker?Colour photograph of scallop fishing boat Neoartaky in Cunninghame Arm, Carnival Ferris wheel in background and memorial cypress trees along Esplanade. Lakes Entrance Victoriafishing industry, celebrations, ships and shipping, waterways

Owner Keith Bonds from NungurnerColour photograph of the scallop fishing boat Sand Groper working the scallop beds in Bass Strait. Boat in background working in opposite direction. Lakes Entrance Victoriafishing industry, ships and shipping, waterways

Skipper John Britton, Scott Hobson?, thought to be in mud in Tamar River, Tasm 2011Colour photograph of fishing boat Cowrie Bay which appears to be just outside Cunninghame Arm, the western side of the entrance and hummocks in background. Lakes Entrance Victoriafishing industry, ships and shipping, waterways, jetties, ocean

Victory owner 'Tommy Tucker' Tom RussellColour photograph of fishing boats on the slips at Eastern Wharf. On left of photograph timber boat Victory, on right steel hull boat Massbanker. Lakes Entrance Victoriafishing industry, ships and shipping, jetties

Colour photograph of the fishing boat Tarpeena working in Bass Strait, shows trawl rope out stern of boat three men on board. Lakes Entrance Victoriafish, ships and shipping, fishing industry, ocean

Also second photograph showing net cable off stern of boat.Colour photograph on a fishing boat, working off Wellington Cape. Showing deckies Ian Hammarstrom and Tim Anketell on deck hauling in net. Lakes Entrance Victoriafish, ships and shipping, fishing industry, ocean

Also one other photograph similarColour photograph of the fishing boat Kendean in Cunninghame Arm, sand hummocks in background. Boat has many people on board and is decorated for a celebration. Lakes Entrance Victoriaboats and boating, fishing industry, waterways

Colour photograph of an unknown scallop fishing boat entering the boat harbour, one man in wheel house, another man standing on deck. Lakes Entrance Victoriaboats and boating, fishing industry, ocean

Black and white photograph of Dennis Shepherd owner/skipper of the fishing vessel Minawie, shows the well set up wheel house moored at Lakes Entrance Victoriaboats and boating, fishing industry, islands

Colour photograph of the deck of the fishing boat Minawie almost covered with a successful shot of school whiting, estimated as 70 bins. Taken at sea. Lakes Entrance Victoriafishing industry, waterways

Colour photograph Rotary Club member Mike Anketell with Tim Bull, Editor of South East Fishing magazine, of East Gippsland Newspapers. Lakes Entrance Victoriarotary club, volunteering