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Torquay and District Historical Society
Copy Magazine Article and photo, Legacy of the storm Scammell house
Interview with Margaret Ganley about Scammell HouseArticle & PhotoArticle from Real Life Magazine by Michelle Ednacott & Barbara Maher -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Keeping things ship shape, Legacy of the storm Scammell House, Article from Surf Coast Times 12-02-2008
Reports address to local Probus Club by Carleen ThornbergArticles and photos -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Black & White Photograph, Legacy of the storm Scammell House
Photograph of deck house room downstairs (Eastern Side )scammel deckhouse -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Black & White Photocopy, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell House
Photograph of Scammell House as it was in 1936 -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Copy Photograph, Legacy of the Storm Scammell House
View of front Scammell House -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Photocopy, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell House
Pride Family on picnic at AngleseaPhotocopy of Pride family Pride family on picnic at Angleseapride family -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Photocopy, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell House
Photo of Martha Pride Pride Family Photocopy -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Legacy of the storm ,Scammell house, Photocopy
Scammell HousePhoto of front of house & Drivewaywreck of joseph h scammell -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Photocopy, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell House
Pride Family dressedin Britanica costume at Centenial ball at TIAPhotocopy -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Photocopy, Legacy of the storm,scammell house
Scammell HousePhotocopyscammell house -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Copy Photo, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell House
Photograph of William Prides house at 10 Latrobe Terrace Geelong in 1890,SWilliam prides home in GeelongSepia copy photo Nowilliam pride -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Copy Photo, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell house
Possibly members of the Pride Family watching tennis at Beales Street during 1920.sScammell HouseSepia copy photo1920s tennis spectators -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Photocopy, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell House
Pride sisters -Margarets Aunties Photocopy scammell house, pride family -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Copy Photo, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell house
Various members of the Pride Family at Torquay Beach 1920sScammell HouseSepia copy photo -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Photocopy, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell house
Scammell HousePhotocopy of residents in front of house -
Torquay and District Historical Society
Copy Photo, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell House
Shows group of beach goers on Torquay Beach in front of Bathing boxes early 1920.sSepia copy photo1920s beach goers -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Painting, Madeline M.Ravenna Lewellin, Start Point Light, Devonshire, 1875
This painting was inspired by an original painting by Wilhelm Melby held at the National Gallery of Victoria. Melby is a Danish artist (1824-1882). It depicts a famous Devonshire coastal region famous now for its lighthouse and the pick up point for the pilot when entering waters approaching Dartmouth. The sailing vessels pre-date the construction of the famous lighthouse. Over the centuries the view would have been familiar to many sailors as they left or approached the English mainland and south coast ports in the English Channel. Madeline Mary Ravenna Lewellin (1854 – 24 November 1944) was born in Victoria to Dr John Henry Hill Lewellin, a physician, and Grace Elizabeth (née Danneby). She was one of five daughters, and the family lived in Prahran. Lewellin's brother, Captain Herbert Gordon Hill Lewellin, was a commander in the P. and O. fleet (apprentice on the Romanoff, Lieutenant RNR on the HMS Arethusa in 1899, RMS Mongolia in 1913 sunk in 1917, Naldera in 1920). She studied painting at the National Gallery School in 1879 under Eugene von Guerard. She's also known for collecting and painting specimens, and became a member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria in 1885. In 1884 she won a silver medal for her studies of fungi. She collected plants for Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller, and the variety of Dicrastylis lewellinii (Purple sand-sage) is named after her. Miss Lewellin, who had a love of the sea and ships as subject matter is listed in 1910 as a donor as a 10/6 member donating to the motor launch fund and in 1918 as a working member of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild which involved regular volunteer shifts at the Mission to Seamen on canteen and other duties.The donor of this highly regarded painting at the Mission , Miss Madeline R. Lewellin (1854-1944), the artist of this version was actively painting in Victoria between 1877 and 1910, was a silver medallist for studies of fungi. She liaised with Von Mueller and studied under Eugene Von Guerard at the National Gallery, School of Painting in 1879. Her works are represented in the State Library Victoria and a silver medal awarded in 1884 is held by Museum Victoria. This painting represents a tangible link with one of the ladies who interfaced with the seafarers. She had a connection with the sea thanks to her brother, Captain Herbert Gordon Hill Lewellin, who was a commander of the RMS Mongolia during WWI, and became the commodore of the P.&O. Fleet.This oil painting has a dark polished wood and gold leaf slip. The painting depicts two masted boats. The choppy sea takes up the lower-third of the painting, and the other two-thirds of the image of made up of stormy grey clouds. A rocky cliff face can be seen on the right-hand side of the painting. A small church can be seen on the hillside. The ship on the left third of the painting sits on the horizon line of the sea. The centre ship with two masts appears to be leaning to the right and its deck is exposed to the viewer showing four men attempting to handle the masts and rigging. The left-hand ship with three masts is surrounded by two grey distant silhouetted mast ships. There are three seagulls at the upper left-centre of the image. There are another three gulls down on the lower-left of the image. Front: ENGRAVED PLAQUE: Start Point Light. Devonshire. SIGNATURE: After W. Melby / M.M.R Lewellin. 1875. Reverse: IN BLACK MARKER PEN: * Hang from two points * WHITE STICKER WITH CONSERVATOR DETAILS: Art Conservation Frames / 118 Bridport Street, Albert Park, VIC, 3206 / 9696 9066 / artconservationframers.com.aupainting, ships, mast, church, sea, storm, oil painting, seagulls, madeline r. lewellin, artwork-paintings, ngv, wilhelm melby, eugene von guerard, botanist, rms mongolia, captain herbert gordon hill lewellin (1862-1935), paddy lewellin -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Equipment - Bilge Pump Barrel, Alexander Hall and Son, 1855
This bilge pump barrel is part of the ship's bilge pump machinery. Bilge or water can find its way into the hull of a ship and if it is not removed the ship will eventually sink. The bilge pump is designed to efficiently remove the bilge water. The Schomberg was a large three-masted full-ship rigged wooden ship built in 1855 by Alexander Hall and Co in Aberdeen, Scotland for James Baines' famous Black Ball Line at £43,103. The vessel was 288 feet (88 meters) in length, with a beam of 45 feet (14 meters), a depth of 29.5 feet (8.99 meters) of 2,284 tons. The mainmast was 210 feet (64 meters) high and she carried 3.3 acres of sail. The vessel was constructed with three skins. One planked fore and aft, and two diagonally planked, fastened together with screw-threaded trunnels (wooden rails). The Schomberg is one of only three clipper wrecks in Victorian waters that operated the England to Australia run. While the other two, Empress of the Sea and Lightning, were built by the famous American shipbuilder, Donald Mac Kay. Schomberg was an attempt to build a faster ship than Mac Kay and a vessel fast enough to break the sailing record to Australia. The Schomberg sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool on 6 October 1855, under the command of Captain James Forbes, on its maiden voyage to Australia with general cargo, jewellery, spirits, machinery, and 2,000 tons of iron rails and equipment intended to build the Melbourne to Geelong Railway and a bridge over the Yarra from Melbourne to Hawthorn. She also carried a cow for fresh milk, pens for fowls and pigs, plus 90,000 gallons of water for washing and drinking. She also carried 17,000 letters and 31,800 newspapers. There were approximately 473 passengers and a crew of 105. It was hoped that Schomberg would make Melbourne in sixty days, setting a record for the voyage, but light winds at the equator dashed those expectations. The ship sighted Moonlight Head in southwest Victoria on Christmas Day but through a deadly combination of wind, currents and unmarked sand spits, the vessel gently ran aground on 26 December 1855 on a spit that juts into Newfield Bay, just east of Curdies Inlet, and the present town of Peterborough. Fortunately, the SS Queen was nearby and managed to save all passengers and crew. The steamers Keera and Maitland were dispatched to salvage the passenger's baggage and the more valuable cargo. Other salvage attempts were made, but deteriorating weather made the work impossible, and within two weeks the Schomberg's hull was broken up and the vessel abandoned. The wrecking of the Schomberg caused quite a public stir, particularly in light of the fact the vessel was supposed to be, the most perfect clipper ship ever built. Captain Forbes was charged in the Supreme Court under suspicion that he was playing cards with two female passengers below decks when his ship ran aground. Despite a protest meeting, two inquiries and the court proceedings, he was found not guilty and cleared of all charges. In 1975, divers from Flagstaff Hill, including Peter Ronald, found an ornate communion set at the wreck. The set comprised a jug, two chalices, a plate and a lid. The lid did not fit any of the other objects and in 1978 a piece of the lid broke off, revealing a glint of gold. As museum staff carefully examined the lid and removed marine growth, they found a diamond ring, which is currently on display in the Great Circle Gallery at the Flagstaff Hill Maritime museum that also displays ship fittings and equipment, and personal effects. The Schomberg has historical significance as one of the first luxurious ships built to bring emigrants to Australia to cash in on the gold rush era. And is included on the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR S612). The collection of Schomberg artefacts held at Flagstaff Hill Museum is primarily significant because of the relationship between these recovered items having a high potential to interpret the story of the Schomberg and its foundering during a storm. The shipwreck is of additional historically significance for representing aspects of Victoria’s shipping history and for its association with the first passenger ship, which was designed not only to be the fastest and most luxurious of its day but foundered on its maiden voyage to Australia.Bilge pump barrel,; brass cylinder with screw thread at the base and fittings on one side. A piece of the ship's timber is attached. The object was recovered from the wreck of the shipo Schomberg. Nonewarrnambool, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, schomberg, shipwrecked-artefact, clipper ship, black ball line, 1855 shipwreck, aberdeen clipper ship, captain forbes, peterborough shipwreck, ss queen, bilge pump, ship's plumbing, bilge pump barrel, bilge -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Stretton, Alan, Soldier In A Storm: An Autobiography
Few Australian professional soldiers have become so well known in recent years as Major-General Alan Stretton.Few Australian professional soldiers have become so well known in recent years as Major-General Alan Stretton. stretton, alan, 1922-2012, australia - armed forces - biography -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Lewis, Jon ed, The Mammoth Book of True War Stories
Gripping tales of real-life horror and heroism from the history of human conflict.Gripping tales of real-life horror and heroism from the history of human conflict.war - press coverage, desert storm, killing fields of vietnam -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - SANDHURST BOYS CENTRE COLLECTION: MINI TORNADO DAMAGE
Four photographs showing destruction caused by a mini tornado to a Nissen hut on 8 June 1978 which had been used for storage of vegetables and feed for fowls.bendigo, institutions, sandhurst boys centre, storm damage; tornado; -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - SANDHURST BOYS CENTRE COLLECTION: MINI TORNADO DAMAGE 8 JUNE
Two photographs showing destruction caused by a mini tornado on 8 June 1978 to a Nissen hut which had been used for storage of vegetables and feed for fowls.bendigo, institutions, sandhurst boys centre, storm damage; tornado;