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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Lowell Thomas, Raiders of the Deep, 1964
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Oliver Warner, A Portrait of Lord Nelson, 1958
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Digital photograph, Black and white, Charles Daniel Pratt (1892-1968), c. 1927
The tennis court was built in 1924, after a suggestion from seamen. It was used until the 50s when it was too damaged and costly to keep. The Hawthorn branch of the LHLG raised the funds. Aerial photograph of the Yarra river depicting the Siddeley and Flinders buildings with the tennis court.tennis court, sports, charles daniel pratt (1892-1968) -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Digital photograph, Black and white, Charles Daniel Pratt (1892-1968), c. 1927
The tennis court was built in 1924, after a suggestion from seamen. It was used until the 50s when it was too damaged and costly to keep. The Hawthorn branch of the LHLG raised the funds. Aerial photograph of the Yarra river depicting the Siddeley and Flinders buildings with the tennis court.tennis court, sports, charles daniel pratt (1892-1968), fishmarket, spencer street bridge, sailors' home, siddeley street, flinders street, mission to seafarers, seamen's mission, seamen's institute -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Hay Doddy, War Under the Red Ensign, 1982
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Jill Barnard et al, Welcome and Farewell: The Story of Station Pier, 2004
In the mid-nineteenth century, Victoria’s primitive maritime infrastructure was not coping with the volume of passenger and cargo traffic arriving in and departing from the burgeoning gold-fevered colony. However, the opening of Railway Pier at Port Melbourne in 1854 greatly improved the situation. Railway Pier serviced the steamships, which plied Port Phillip Bay and the Victorian coastal waters beyond, and also offered berths for vessels on the regular runs to other Australian colonies and to overseas destinations. However, as the larger and more powerful steamships of the early twentieth century found berthing increasingly difficult at Railway Pier, the need for a more modern pier became apparent. By 1930, the new Station Pier had replaced its predecessor. Itself extended and upgraded several times including during the past decade, Station pier still offers every contemporary convenience to shipping services using its busy facilities, just as did its predecessor Railway Pier, 150 years ago. The Victorian Government commissioned Welcome & Farewell to celebrate the 150 years since the opening of the Railway Pier. In doing so, it was mindful that the story of the site is not limited to its contribution to national and state economies, or to its physical development. The Government wanted a history that would also speak to ordinary Victorians, and other Australians, of their own experiences of this significant place. For indeed the Station Pier site has played its part in almost every milestone or phase in our history: at moments of celebration and commemoration, during economic booms and depressions, during times of war and peace. It has also won a place in the hearts of ordinary individuals affected by the welcomes and farewells they have experienced there: those for visiting royalty and celebrities, for servicemen and medical personnel off to war or returning home, for migrants from distant countries and refugees from war zones, for friends and family travelling for personal, professional or cultural reasons. Welcome & Farewell thoughtfully examines Station Pier’s significance and offers a splendid visual panorama of the experiences lived out there between 1854 and 2004.Illustrated large-format book with 224 pages [36] p. of plates. : ill., maps, ports.Bibliography: p. 199-201non-fictionIn the mid-nineteenth century, Victoria’s primitive maritime infrastructure was not coping with the volume of passenger and cargo traffic arriving in and departing from the burgeoning gold-fevered colony. However, the opening of Railway Pier at Port Melbourne in 1854 greatly improved the situation. Railway Pier serviced the steamships, which plied Port Phillip Bay and the Victorian coastal waters beyond, and also offered berths for vessels on the regular runs to other Australian colonies and to overseas destinations. However, as the larger and more powerful steamships of the early twentieth century found berthing increasingly difficult at Railway Pier, the need for a more modern pier became apparent. By 1930, the new Station Pier had replaced its predecessor. Itself extended and upgraded several times including during the past decade, Station pier still offers every contemporary convenience to shipping services using its busy facilities, just as did its predecessor Railway Pier, 150 years ago. The Victorian Government commissioned Welcome & Farewell to celebrate the 150 years since the opening of the Railway Pier. In doing so, it was mindful that the story of the site is not limited to its contribution to national and state economies, or to its physical development. The Government wanted a history that would also speak to ordinary Victorians, and other Australians, of their own experiences of this significant place. For indeed the Station Pier site has played its part in almost every milestone or phase in our history: at moments of celebration and commemoration, during economic booms and depressions, during times of war and peace. It has also won a place in the hearts of ordinary individuals affected by the welcomes and farewells they have experienced there: those for visiting royalty and celebrities, for servicemen and medical personnel off to war or returning home, for migrants from distant countries and refugees from war zones, for friends and family travelling for personal, professional or cultural reasons. Welcome & Farewell thoughtfully examines Station Pier’s significance and offers a splendid visual panorama of the experiences lived out there between 1854 and 2004.port melbourne, station pier -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Steve Humphries, The Call of the Sea: Britain's Maritime Past 1900-1960, 1997
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Samuel Robinson, A Sailor Boy’s Experience Aboard a Slave Ship, 1996
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Roy Jones, The Life and Adventures of a Trinity Boy, 2007
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, David L. Williams and Richard de Kerbrech, Cargo Ships: A Colour Portfolio, 2007
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Graham Hindle, Dear Daughter :The Messenger Letters, Voyage of a Sailing Ship Captain 1890-1898, 1998
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Tom Peppitt, The Crew, A Portrait of Merchant Seamen at the End of the Tramp Steamer Era, 2000
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book - Autobiography, Peter Biddick, A Tramp About the World, 1994
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Victor G. Saundercock, Harbour Vessels, 1985
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Edward Paget-Tomlison, Shipping Company Colours, 2005
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Reg Cooley, The Unknown Fleet , The Army's Civilian Seamen in War and Peace, 1993
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, D. K. Rickard, Australia’s Navy: The First 100 Years . A 365 Day Almanac of Notable Events, 2005
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Jack Loney, An Era at Port Phillip Heads, 1830-1900, 1973
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Michael Bouquet, No Gallant Ship, 1959
non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, H. M. Tomlinson, Great Sea Stories of all Nations, 1967
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Robert G. Thelwell, I Captained the Big Ships, 1961
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, James Bisset, Sail Ho!, 1961
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol. 2, 1927
non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, J. Lennox Kerr, Touching the Adventures of Merchantmen in the Second World War, 1955
non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, George P. Morrill, Dark Sea Running, 1960
non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, John F. Moyes, Scrap-Iron Flotilla, 1943
non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, A. Donaldson, Fifty Years Too Soon, 1948
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, Alan Villiers, Sea-Dogs of To-Day, 1934
non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, A. E. M. Bayliss, Dampier's Voyages, 1945
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Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, H. V. Morton, Atlantic Meeting, 1945
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