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Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Instrument - Binnacle Compass
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Built in 1914 by Fleming and Ferguson in Paisley Scotland as Sir William Matthews for the Ceylon Government, she was a twin screwed steam bucket dredge. She was purchased from the Western Australian Government by the Melbourne Harbour Trust on 10 October 1941. After an extensive overhaul, the vessel was renamed the George Kermode and commenced operation in Victorian waters on 22 June 1942. The George Kermode was scuttled by the Department of Conservation, Forests and Land off Phillip Island on the 1 April 1976 as part of an artificial reef program. This vessel was used to dredge the Port Phillip channels from 1942 and is of cultural significance to Queenscliffe.Binnacle compass from the 'George Kermode'Compass No. 3127N Sestrel Type 89098bucket dredge, port phillip, melbourne harbour trust -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Furniture - Lap Writing Desk
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Brought to Australia by English Captain William Parsons during the 1830s.Donated by Robert Nissen in memory of Gaye Marie Nissen, daughter of Robert Nissen and Mary Wentworth, a descendant of William Charles Wentworth.Mahogany lap writing desk with roll top, ink wells, writing slope, drawer and other compartments.Copper plate on top panel is inscribed with "M.A."writing desks, william charles wentworth -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Functional object - Portable writing desk
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Black portable writing desk with writing pad, ink wells and other compartmentsportable writing desk, domestic item -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Equipment - Hand held aquatic emergency light
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Example of aquatic safety at sea equipmentHand held aquatic emergency lightemergency light, safety at sea -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Equipment - Personal EPIRB
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Pains Wessex Mini Resqsat RB3 Personal 121.5 / 243 MHz EPIRBKinetic Technology Int Pty Ltdepirb, safety at sea -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Equipment - Emergency Life buoy light
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...A battery operated emergency life buoy light4.88emergency light, safety at sea -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Photograph - Photograph of young Harry Greenberg in silver frame
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Photograph of young Harry Greenberg in silver framephotographs, harry greebberg -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Equipment - Harpoon
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Harpoon belonged to Cappy Felman, one of several fishermen from Barwon Heads post WWIIMetal Harpoon tip missing handlefishing, harpoon -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Plaque - Name Plate, 'Katoomba'
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...McIlwraith McEacharn Line Pty.Ltd., reg. Melbourne. 1918: Commandeered as a troopship. 1919: Returned to owners. 1920: Resumed Australian coastal service. 1941: Commandeered as a troopship. 1942 Aug 4: Fired upon in the Great Australian Bight (WA) by a Japanese submarine. 1946: Returned to owners & sold to Compania Maritima del Este, reg. Panama. Refitted at Genoa and sailed under Greek Line flag. 1947: Chartered to French Line for Caribbean service. 1949: Refitted at Genoa & placed on Europe-Canada run. 1954: Neptunia Shipping Co. 1957: Laid up at Bremerhaven. 1958: Laid up at Piraeus. 1959 Sept.29: Arrived at Nagasaki, Japan having been sold to shipbreakers.Served with SS Duntroon leaving Melbourne on 12 February 1942, to join convoy MS5 to Colombo escorted by aircraft carrier HMS Enterprise. She then embarked 640 Second AIF troops to be redeployed to the South West Pacific after serving in the middle east.Brass name plate 'SS Katoomba'SS KATOOMBAwwi, wwii, passenger steamships, ss katoomba -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Tool - Adze
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...A hand held tool used for vigorously shaping timber with a blade horizontal to users grip2 Gill Pin....gis? Mill Warranted FAI 27tools, adze, boat building -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Equipment - Fire Hose Nozzles
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Two brass fire hose nozzles and a fire hydrant lever.fire fighting, fire hose fittings -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Instrument - Telescope in timber box
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...A telescope in its own timber box.Turn this to change powertelescope, navigation -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Equipment - Signal Light Box / flashlight
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Flashlights where a vital tool for night time map reading, signaling with coloured lenses and many other uses. The blackout during the war also meant for a extended popularity of flashlights. Many carried them onto the streets to see as the streetlights where very rare and to top that of mostly blacked out. Most flashlights where fitted with blinds or coloured lenses to hide the bright light they produced. These coloured lenses where also used to signal between individual soldiers. Mostly used in the 1940s by the military and civilians alike. A small metal light signal box or flashlight.Petrix No. 678signal box, flashlight, petrix 678 -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Instrument - Sextant in wooden box
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...This sextant was used by Captain J Menzies, Harbour Master in Warrnambool who testified in the Victorian Royal Commission of 1925 on the development of Warrnambool Harbour.A maritime instrument with links to Victorian Harbour Development history of the early twentieth century.A brass sextant in wooden box'J Menzies' hand written on box lid.sextant, capt. j. menzies -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Print - Framed copy of an engraving of the sailing ship 'Nelson' in the Alfred Graving Dock in Williamstown, 1868, HMVS Nelson in the Alfred Graving Dock, Williamstown, Victoria, 1868
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...As the White Ensign was reserved entirely for the use of the Royal Navy, the Admiral decided to approve of a new ensign for the Victorian Navy and this was flown for the first time from Nelson on 9th March 1870. The new ensign was very similar to the present day national flag and incorporated the Union flag with five white stars on a blue field.Following upon a series of ‘Russian scares’ in the 1870s, Nelson presumably by permission of the Admiralty, was converted into a fighting ship for the Victorian Navy; she was cut down to a single- decker, the fore and mizzen masts were removed, and the armament modified by the landing of several of the old muzzle-loaders and the addition of a number of new breech-loading guns. This conversion was carried out in the new drydock in 1881.A framed copy of an engraving entitled: 'Opening of the Graving Dock, Williamstown'.Opening of the Graving Dock, Williamstownhmvs nelson, alfred graving dock, williamstown -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Instrument - Telescope
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Spencer and Browning was established by William Spencer and Samuel Browning in 1778, before they entered into partnership with Ebenezer Rust in 1784. After the death of Ebenezer Rust's son, the successor business was known as Spencer, Browning & Co. The firm of Spencer, Browning & Rust made a variety of navigational instruments, including octants and sextants.This telescope was manufactured by a London firm established in 1778. The telescope is believed to be from around 1863.Two piece brass day or night telescopeSpencer, Browning and Co. London Day or Night telescope, navigational instruments -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Tool - Cranks for Barlow winch
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Started way back in the mid sixties, Malcolm Barlow first started to build BARLOW winches in a small garage in Sydney. Even though, or maybe because of the uncanny resemblance of those early winches to the American manufactured BARIENT winches, they have stood the test of time.Australian made yachting winch equipment made in the 1960sA wooden box containing 3 winchesBarlow, Australia yachting, barlow winches, winches -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Furniture - Paillasse mattress
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...The donor's husband served in the navy and used this mattress on a hammock during war years.A single mattress stuffed with waddingEssanjay Mfg. Co. Sydney 1941 palliasse, hammock -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Clothing - Fishermen's Smock
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...This smock was hand sewn by Florence Kelly for her husband Reuben Kelly to be used as protective clothing when catching couta in Port Fairy 1948.Fishing industry from Queenscliffe to Port Fairy up to the 1950s /60s. A hand sewn fishermen's smock used by the maker's husband as protective clothing when fishing for couta.couta fishing, protective clothing, fishing industry, port fairy, fishermen's smock -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Uniform - Hat Band
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...In the evening of 20 November 1940, while en route from Queenscliff to Portsea in Port Phillip Bay where she intended to anchor for the evening, she collided with the 10,364 ton, outward bound passenger liner, MV Duntroon, which struck her amidships on the port side. Duntroon’s captain had believed that she was on a parallel course to Goorangai and overtaking her. By the time he realised Goorangai’s true course, with Duntroon travelling at more than 17 knots, it was too late to avoid the collision. Goorangai was cut in two and sank in less than a minute with the loss of her entire crew of 24. Just six bodies were recovered in subsequent salvage operations. She was the first ship lost by the RAN in World War II.This event is still remembered by the community at an annual ceremony in Queenscliffe. The hat band holds Victorian Heritage Register number S294 / 151982A hat band of Signalman Jack Herbert RAN mounted on a display board containing a copy of a signed photograph of the HMAS Goorangai ships company and an extract of his service record.hmas goorangai, mv duntroon, wwii, royal australian navy, port phillip -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Functional object - Spectacle Rings
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Part of a collection of maritime artefacts donated by Wilfred [Bill] Libby These items were used on sailing ships.Two metal spectacle rings or ironsspectacle rings, shackels, spectacle irons, sail fittings, sailing -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Letter - Letter ex Ports & Harbour re Rocket Practice at Split Point Lighthouse 1920, Letter of notice, 28 April 1920
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Ports & Harbour notice to Split Pt lighthouse 1963 of Rocket PracticeRocket based rescue practice, 1963.Letter of Notice re Rocket Practice 28th April 1920Reverse " NIL "rocket practice -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Letter - Letter ex Borough of Queenscliffe re sea rescue commendation to Queenscliff Lifeboat Crew 4-12-1961, Letter of commendation, 4-12-1961
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Commendation to Queenscliff Lifeboat Crew 1961Queenscliff Lifeboat Crew Letter ex Borough of Queenscliffe re sea rescue commendation to Queenscliff Lifeboat Crew 4-12-1961Reverse " NIL "lifeboat resue -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Letter - Letter ex Borough of Queenscliffe re WANGARA rescue 4 Dec 1961, Letter of commendation, 4-12-1961
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Commendation to Queenscliff Lifeboat Crew re WANGARA 1961Queenscliff Lifeboat Crew Letter ex Borough of Queenscliffe re WANGARA rescue 4 Dec 1961Reverse " NIL "lifeboat resue -
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Photograph - B&W photos of QMM c1987 x 2, Two B&W QMM photos c1987, c1987
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Queenscliffe Maritime Museum historyQueenscliffe Maritime MuseumEarly black & white photos of the east elevation of Queenscliffe Maritime Museum, c1987.Reverse " NIL "queenscliffe maritime museum -
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Photograph - B&W photos of Queenscliffe Maritime Museum [aka Centre] c1987 x 7, B&W/Colour photos of QMM c1987, c1987
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Queenscliffe Maritime Museum historyQueenscliffe Maritime MuseumBlack & white/colour photos of the east elevation of the then Queenscliffe Maritime Centre, c1987.Reverse " NIL "queenscliffe maritime museum -
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Photograph - QMM Interior photos c1987, B&W/Colour photos of QMM interiors c1987, c1987
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Queenscliffe Maritime Museum historyQueenscliffe Maritime MuseumBlack & white/colour photos of the lifeboat QUEENSCLIFFE installed in the then Queenscliffe Maritime Centre, c1987.Reverse " NIL "queenscliffe maritime museum -
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Photograph - Arial colour photograph of Queenscliffe & environs, Arial photo of Queenscliffe c1950, c1950
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Queenscliffe area historyQueenscliffe from the air c1950Queenscliffe & environs, piers & township arial colour picture, c1950Reverse " present from / (North Arm was removed ? / see Mike Bailey "queenscliffe township -
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Photograph - AKUNA 1 being rowed to an incoming ship in Port Phillip, AKUNA 1 pilot boat, c1925
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Queenscliffe pilot boat historyProbable last photo of AKUNA in Port Phillip1. Photo of Akuna 1 c1925 & copied negative of AKUNA 1Reverse " NIL "queenscliffe pilot boats -
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Photograph - Photo of lifeboat house & slipway Queenscliffe, Lifeboat house plans, 26 February 1926
... Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf St Queenscliff geelong ...Queenscliffe pilot boat housing historyPlan of Lifeboat Shed & Slipway 1926B&W Photo of lifeboat & slipway plans for Queenscliffe 25 Feb 1926Reverse " NIL "queenscliffe pilot boats