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Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Jill Barnard et al, Welcome and Farewell: The Story of Station Pier, 2004
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...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 VictoriaBook, Steve Humphries, The Call of the Sea: Britain's Maritime Past 1900-1960, 1997
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictiondonation, queenscliff maritime museum -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Samuel Robinson, A Sailor Boy’s Experience Aboard a Slave Ship, 1996
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionapprentices, slavery -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Roy Jones, The Life and Adventures of a Trinity Boy, 2007
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictiondonation, queenscliff maritime museum -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, David L. Williams and Richard de Kerbrech, Cargo Ships: A Colour Portfolio, 2007
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictiondonation, queenscliff maritime museum -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Graham Hindle, Dear Daughter :The Messenger Letters, Voyage of a Sailing Ship Captain 1890-1898, 1998
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictioncaptain's daughter, thomas messenger -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Tom Peppitt, The Crew, A Portrait of Merchant Seamen at the End of the Tramp Steamer Era, 2000
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictiontramp, tramp steamer, merchant navy -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook - Autobiography, Peter Biddick, A Tramp About the World, 1994
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictiontramp, peter biddick, merchant navy, autobiography -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Victor G. Saundercock, Harbour Vessels, 1985
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionharbour vessels, tug boat -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Edward Paget-Tomlison, Shipping Company Colours, 2005
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionshipping companies, colours, house flag -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Reg Cooley, The Unknown Fleet , The Army's Civilian Seamen in War and Peace, 1993
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionmerchant navy, ww2 -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, D. K. Rickard, Australia’s Navy: The First 100 Years . A 365 Day Almanac of Notable Events, 2005
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionalmanac, australian navy, royal australian navy, ran -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Jack Loney, An Era at Port Phillip Heads, 1830-1900, 1973
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionport phillip heads, jack loney, william buckley -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Michael Bouquet, No Gallant Ship, 1959
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, H. M. Tomlinson, Great Sea Stories of all Nations, 1967
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Robert G. Thelwell, I Captained the Big Ships, 1961
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, James Bisset, Sail Ho!, 1961
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol. 2, 1927
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, J. Lennox Kerr, Touching the Adventures of Merchantmen in the Second World War, 1955
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, George P. Morrill, Dark Sea Running, 1960
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, John F. Moyes, Scrap-Iron Flotilla, 1943
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, A. Donaldson, Fifty Years Too Soon, 1948
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Alan Villiers, Sea-Dogs of To-Day, 1934
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, A. E. M. Bayliss, Dampier's Voyages, 1945
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation, navigators, dampier -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, H. V. Morton, Atlantic Meeting, 1945
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Margaret E. MacKenzie, Shipwrecks, 1964
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Sidney Howard, Our Merchant Navy, 1942
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Sydney D. Waters, Ordeal by Sea: The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited. The Company's History in the Second World War 1939-1945, 1949
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...The men and ships of the New Zealand Shipping company and their participation in the British Merchant Navy during WWII. Includes details of the company's ships lost through enemy action, including the Turakina, victim of the German raider Orion in the Tasman Sea in August 1940 which was the first of the company's ships lost. Also covers the sinking of the Rangitane and Cambridge, as well as the salvage of the Hororata and the Battle of the Atlantic with the Essex in the Malta Convoy.non-fictionThe men and ships of the New Zealand Shipping company and their participation in the British Merchant Navy during WWII. Includes details of the company's ships lost through enemy action, including the Turakina, victim of the German raider Orion in the Tasman Sea in August 1940 which was the first of the company's ships lost. Also covers the sinking of the Rangitane and Cambridge, as well as the salvage of the Hororata and the Battle of the Atlantic with the Essex in the Malta Convoy. keith oliver, ww2, merchant navy, new zealand shipping company, turakina, rangitane, hororata -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Bill Thomas, The Early Days and I, 1998
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaBook, Jack Loney, Wrecks on Victoria's South West Coast, 1975
... Mission to Seafarers Victoria 717 Flinders Street Docklands ...non-fictionkeith oliver, donation
