Port Phillip pilot boat WYUNA.Port Phillip pilot.News articles & photos of the WYUNA's history as a Pilot Ship in Port Phillip.Reverse " NIL "

Port Phillip pilot boat PROSERPINEPort Phillip pilot boatNews articles & photo of the PROSERPINE Pilot Boat new into Port Phillip '79.Reverse " NIL "

Port Phillip pilot boat AKUNA IIIPort Phillip pilot boat'84 news article re the new AKUNA III pilot boat Launching.Reverse " NIL "

Port Phillip pilot boat VICTORIA IIPort Phillip pilot boat28/06/1986 Geelong Advertiser article re VICTORIA II pilot boat launching.Reverse " NIL "

Port Phillip's Ports & Harbour maintenance ship RIP 1.Ports & Harbour maintenance ship RIP 1Full clipping ex The Sun Wed April 18, 1984, Pg 34 & 35, re Rip 1 ship, Ports & HarbourReverse " NIL "

Port of Geelong trade figuresPort of Geelong Trade StatisticsStaple bound, 12 page pamphlet/booklet re Port of Geelong, 1971, Trade Statistics.Reverse " NIL "

Museum display provider's tax incentivesTax incentives for provision of museum displayTri-fold ATO pamphlet re Arts Tax Deduction c1980.Reverse " NIL "

Six items of memorabilia; ships' plaques, liner souvenirs, school bookships' plaques, ocean liner souvenirs, school book

The cash box was used at the Williamstown Customs House.Cash box in use by the Port Phillip Sea Pilot Service for many years.a tin cash box inscribed with Port Phillip Sea Pilots on front sideChubb's Patent: Makers to her Majesty: 1456475: 28 Queen Victoria St: London. Port Phillip Sea Pilots on the outside.ppsp, sea pilot service, cash box

For over 45 years, Richard has used Wendy regularly for recreational fishing and occasional sailing out of Queenscliff. He has the original cotton canvas sails that were fitted on the boat when she was built, and which still are in working condition. Richard says that one of his favourite pastimes has been trolling for pike around Swan Island, close by Queenscliff, ensuring that the heritage of this Lacco-built boat fishing boat is preserved. In about 2015, Wendy underwent a rebuild including: a new centre-case, ribs and deck, and a new Yanmar engine. The works were done by Bryon Miller of Peninsula Wooden Boats. Wendy remains berthed, fore and aft, at Number 12 pile in front of Queenscliff Lonsdale Yacht Club. Well known couta boat in QueenscliffeAustralian made Kopsen vortex bilge pump.Kopsen Vortexcouta boats, 'wendy", bilge pump

Formerly of Station Works, Wakering Road, Barking, Essex, Henry Browne & Son were important British compass makers. The company was founded in the nineteenth century in Barking and London. They were respected English instrument makers who made fine quality compasses, ships clocks, inclinometers, sextants and chandlery items for over 140 years. Their "Dead Beat" compass, which was well dampened to reduce oscillation, was fitted to many Allied ships during the Second World War. Sestrel was their famous Trade Mark brand. The company was sold to John Lilley & Gillie Ltd and SIRS Navigation, both UK companies, in 1993. Example of a hand held compass used in WWIIA Sestrel hand held bearing compass with wooden handle in own glass fronted, wooden container.Sestrel Henry Browne & Son Ltd Barking Londoncompass, navigation

8 cm compass Pattern 9628 in wooden boxCompass Patt 9628S Delicate instrument handle with care 287A/62compass, navigation

The ship was built in 1953 by Ferguson Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow, Scotland for the Port Phillip Sea Pilots organisation as a pilot cutter. Her role as a pilot cutter was to sail with pilots on board to meet ships entering Port Phillip Bay. Pilots would be transferred by the Wyuna's workboat to the vessel requiring pilotage while it was stopped dead in the water, with shelter provided by the vessel itself.Brass Deck Light with globemv wyuna, port phillip pilot service

A hand driven echo roller reader.echo sounding, hydrography

The light was powered by a kerosene lantern that had to be kept alight by the keepers until the introduction of bottled acetylene gas in 1925. The light operated for 111 years until 1985 when it was turned off for a trial period. It was never turned back on. A sun valve is a flow control activated by sunlight heat which automatically shuts off gas during daylight hours. Relic from the Hovell light run on acetylene from 1925 to 1985Sun valve from the Hovell Pile Lighthovell pile light, south channel, port phillip

A round hand held navigational engineer compassEngineer Compassnavigation, compass

A conical timing mechanism with Shell Timing Mechanism and cone cover.ordnance, shell timing mechanism

Navigational equipmentNavigational equipment A timber and brass parallel ruler and brass dividersparallel ruler, dividers, navigation, chart reading

Marlin Depth recorder DIR 110A paper type recorder fishing, depth recorder, instruments

Coin and other metal objects retrieved from the ocean floorMultiple coin and other metal objects collected by a diver from local waters.A collection of various coin and other metal objects retrieved from the ocean floor showing corrosion and encrustation.salvage, diving, ship relics

Various artifacts from the steamship 'Wattle'. The Steam Tug Wattle, a steel ship, was built as a harbor tug in 1933. Steam is supplied from a two-furnace Scotch Marine wet-back boiler which was originally fired with dewatered and filtered waste oil but has recently been converted to burn distillate for environmental and maintenance reasons. It was launched at Cockatoo Island on 27 June 1933 by Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Co. Ltd. (CODECO) on order from the Commonwealth Shipping Board. Now fully restored it operates excursions in Port Phillip and the Yarra. One of a very few still operating steam tugs.Brass inclinator mounted on timber plate.steam tug wattle, harbour tugs

Various artifacts from the steamship 'Wattle'. The Steam Tug Wattle, a steel ship, was built as a harbor tug in 1933. Steam is supplied from a two-furnace Scotch Marine wet-back boiler which was originally fired with dewatered and filtered waste oil but has recently been converted to burn distillate for environmental and maintenance reasons. It was launched at Cockatoo Island on 27 June 1933 by Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Co. Ltd. (CODECO) on order from the Commonwealth Shipping Board. Now fully restored it operates excursions in Port Phillip and the Yarra.Solar Reflector with spirit level in wooden boxst wattle, navigational intruments

William Withers and Edward Ryan drowned near Point Lonsdale on 19 October 1954 when they tried to enter the Rip at Port Phillip Heads against an ebb tide with a strong south-west wind blowing. They were sailing a large crayfishing boat, the 'Robert John', returning with a load of crayfish from King Island.Photograph shows William (Bill) Withers and Edward Ryan who worked in the local Queenscliff and Victorian fishing industry. The commercial fishing industry developed in Queenscliff from the 1860s, with early fishing developing around the couta boat and barracouta fishing. Crayfishing and shark fishing also became important, especially as the supplies and popularity of barracouta as a commercial species waned. Local Queenscliff fishermen often fished outside Port Phillip into Bass Strait and had to navigate the dangerous entry to Port Phillip, known as 'The Rip', with its turbulent and variable water and weather conditions. This added to the everyday dangers of sailing faced by fishermen in their industry. The local fishermen often had the local knowledge of these waters, but the fishing community in Queenscliff also lived with the threat or fear that the Rip could rob them of one of their own. The entrance to Port Phillip with this Rip is the scene of many shipwrecks,often resulting in tragic loss of life or injuries, including passenger and cargo ships travelling to/from Melbourne and Geelong as well as accidents to local Queenscliff and Port Phillip sailors such as the fishermen or sea pilots. A B/W photograph of two Queenscliff fishermen, William (Bill) Withers and Edward Ryaninformation about photo and donation handwrittten on backfishermen, queenscliff fishermen, withers, william withers, ryan, edward ryan, robert john crayfish boat, shipwreck, port phillip

First ocean going vessel in world built of mild steel. Was known as the "Greyhound of the Pacific". Laid up December 1920 and hull sunk in Bass Strait in 1928.RealismMounted sepia photograph of a painting by A V Gregory of the steam ship S S RotomahanaS S Rotomahana and A V Gregorysepia photograph, a v gregory, ss rotomahana, steam ship

The 'Rescue' was one of the first metal hulled tugboats. The 'Ballarat' became a troop carrier & was sunk by a submarine's torpedoe.RealismBlack & white photograph of the tug "Rescue" moving the bow of "SS Ballarat" at Melbourne's Railway Pier 1893'Rescue' and 'SS Ballarat'steel tugboat, ss ballarat, railway pier melbourne

Undated black & white photo of the lifeboat sailor in Scotland.RealismMrs D BeavisBlack & white photo of a lifeboat sailor from ScotlandOn the reverse - 'year 1890?', 'one of the lifeboat crew', 'duplicate may be had any time' - Wm McLeod, 20 Keith St Stornoway'.lifeboat, boat crew, sailor, uniform

Undated black & white photo of HMVS Childers torpedo boatRealismMr T ArnottBlack & white phot of HMVS Childers torpedo boat, with a moored lifeboat in the foreground and tri-masted square-rigged boat and steamship in the background .On the reverse - Childers Torpedo Boat, RAN 1911, 1st Class, Gift MAAV T. Arnottlifeboat, torpedo boat

Postcard showing the BASP lifeboat under sailRealismPostcard photograph in sepia of the BASP being a Watson Class lifeboat.On the reverse - National Lifeboat Museum - Bristol with a full description [refer notes for full details]lifeboat, watson class, sails