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Torquay and District Historical SocietyPhotograph (copy) of a newspaper article, Scammell Collection, Melbourne Herald article 15 July 1939
Article retells the story of the rescue of the Scammell deckhouse which was incorporated into a Torquay home.A warm story of the survival of a significant part of the Scammell wrecked off Torquay in 1891.Black and white photograph -
Torquay and District Historical SocietyNewpaper article (copy), Scammell Collection
Newspaper article and photos detail the raising of the Scammell anchor by members of the Geelong Skindiving ClubThe Scammell anchor was recovered from the wreck and is now set up on the lawns adjacent to the front beach at Torquay.Black and white photocopy -
Torquay and District Historical SocietyPhotograph (copy), Scammell Collection
Photograph shows locals swimming and playing around the keel of the Scammell on the beach at Torquay circa 1900The Scammell was wrecked off Point Danger Torquay in 1891.Black and white photographshipwrecks great ocean road victoria -
Torquay and District Historical SocietyPhotograph (copy), Scammell Collection
Photograph shows the Scammell flag hanging from a building in Nova ScotiaThe Scammell was wrecked off Point Danger Torquay in 1891.Black and white photographshipwrecks great ocean road victoria -
Torquay and District Historical SocietyPhotocopy, Legacy of the storm ,Scammell house
Scammell house Photocopy of original walls and doorsscammel deckhouse, wreck of joseph h scammell -
Torquay and District Historical SocietyLegacy of the storm ,Scammell house, Photocopy
Scammell HousePhoto of front of house & Drivewaywreck of joseph h scammell -
Torquay and District Historical SocietyPhotograph (copy), Keel of Scammell on beach
Keel of the Scammell on the beach; locals swimming and playing around it.contemporary photograph of last remnants of the wreck of the Scammellblack and white copy of photograph of the keel of the Scammell ; early 1900 -
Torquay and District Historical Societycolour photo, Scammell collection
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Koorie Heritage TrustBook, Barrett, Charles, White blackfellows : the strange adventures of Europeans who lived among savages, 1948
Stories of William Buckley (1835) - Victoria; Sammy Cox or Samuel Emanuel Jervis (1789) - Tasmania; James Murrells or Jemmy Morrill (1846) - Qld.; James Davis called Duramboi &? Wandi Bracefield or Bracefell (1826) - Wide Bay, Qld.; Mrs. Fraser (1835) - Qld. on the Stirling Castle; wreck of the Charles Eaton, survivors were John Ireland and William Doyley (1834) - Murray Is.; Thomas Pamphlet, Richard Parsons, John Finnegan (1823) Moreton Bay; William Jackman (1836) - Great Australian Bight; Barbara Thomson (1848) - Cape York; Chapter on Aborigines and bushrangers.xvi, 261 p., [23] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.Stories of William Buckley (1835) - Victoria; Sammy Cox or Samuel Emanuel Jervis (1789) - Tasmania; James Murrells or Jemmy Morrill (1846) - Qld.; James Davis called Duramboi &? Wandi Bracefield or Bracefell (1826) - Wide Bay, Qld.; Mrs. Fraser (1835) - Qld. on the Stirling Castle; wreck of the Charles Eaton, survivors were John Ireland and William Doyley (1834) - Murray Is.; Thomas Pamphlet, Richard Parsons, John Finnegan (1823) Moreton Bay; William Jackman (1836) - Great Australian Bight; Barbara Thomson (1848) - Cape York; Chapter on Aborigines and bushrangers.wilderness survival -- australia. | aboriginal australians -- social life and customs. | australia -- history -- 1788-1851. -
Port Fairy Historic Lifeboat Stationbag, oil bag, early 20th Century
Item acquired from Lakes Entrance boat builder/owner who sold it to the PFHLS in 2008. Oil bags were part of the lifeboat equipment. Only one other example known is at the Port Albert Maritime Museum The oil bag was used to put oil on the sea's surface, to inhibit spray, wave burst and fear for survivors transferring from the shipwreck to the lifeboat. This was essential, as the lifeboat would never come close to the wreck, to avoid the risk of being damaged itself. The item is rare, and a vital part of the lifeboat's rescue equipment. The technique probably generated the phrase "pour oil on troubled waters" textile (flax) bag, shaped like a tennis racquet cover, with a brass tube attached to bag. The tube has a series of very small circular holes (in lines) arranged along the length of the tube. These were to allow the light oil contained within the bag to be sucked from the bag by a venturi action. The bag has a light line attached to it to secure to the lifeboat when in use (by casting the bag into the sea).. no markingsno markingsoil bag -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.Article, Protests on hall wrecking, ca 1965
Article on Council decision to demolish Moreton Park Hall (used as Regal Theatre) in order to build a branch library (ca 1965).Article on Council decision to demolish Moreton Park Hall (used as Regal Theatre) in order to build a branch library (ca 1965). Copy from scrapbook of Jessie Wiliams.Article on Council decision to demolish Moreton Park Hall (used as Regal Theatre) in order to build a branch library (ca 1965). moreton park hall, regal theatre, blackburn, blackburn branch library, williams, jessie, johnson, bob -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Old house wrecked by vandals, 4/03/1970 12:00:00 AM
Article in Nunawading Gazette re vandalising of 100 year old house in Mitcham.Article in Nunawading Gazette re vandalising of 100 year old house in Mitcham. The house was the first private school in Mitcham.Article in Nunawading Gazette re vandalising of 100 year old house in Mitcham. elijah, e.g., lee parade, mitcham -
Inverloch Historical Society004438 Book - Loney, JK (1976); Wrecks on the Gippsland Coast (5th Edition) - from E Henderson
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Moorabbin Air Museum
Book (Item) - "Pacific Wrecks" - wrapped in brown paper, unsure if wrecks of aircraft or ships
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Moorabbin Air Museum
Book (Item) - SETTING SUNS CAPTURED & WRECKED JAPANESE AIRCRAFT IN WWII, Tom Laemlein
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Moorabbin Air Museum
Book - SETTING SUNS CAPTURED & WRECKED JAPANESE ARICRAFT IN WWII, SETTING SUNS CAPTURED & WRECKED JAPAANES AIRCRAFT IN WWII
12.5cm x20cm Green Covers back Glossy white pages black printing photographsnon-fiction -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Book - japanese aircraft world warii captured and wrecked, tom laemlein, setting suns captured and wrecked japanese aircraft in world warii, 2007
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Ballarat Tramway MuseumNewspaper, "Tram wrecked in smash with 'semi' ", 17/09/1970 12:00:00 AM
Newspaper clipping from a newspaper (possibly Melbourne Sun) of 17/9/1970, reporting on the a head - on collision or accident between tram and a semi trailer in Ballarat the previous night. Reports on the injuries to the passenger (Maree Matthews), truck driver (Ronald Cox) and the tram driver (Ian Tierney), gives names and details, time of collision, location and the name and account of an eye-witness. Location given as Victoria St. and Queen St. Reference item with Reg. No. 551 for photo and other details of references etc. See also items Reg Nos. 1088, 1089.In red ink in upper right hand corner, '17/9/70'trams, tramways, accidents, 20, victoria st, collision -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document (Item) - Wrecks by aircraft type ,refer description description for type and serial numbers
Vengence A27-82,83,207,209,213,245,266,275,276 C.A.C Boomerang A46-85,109,112,116,119,132,148,149,181,1898,216 PBY Catalina A24-9,34,43,49,,08428,08436,44-33889 Avro Anson AX120,LT294 Bell P-39 Aircobra 40-0122,0147,0232,0290,0377.41-6802,7053,7129,7136,7148,7165,7204,7222,6780,6802,6970,3834.41-3834.42-19033,19045,19963,19991,19999,20107,20351,20353.44-3569,3589.BW117,128,139,plus unknowns. Spitfire A58-145.230,546 Grumman Avenger 25303 , NZ2507,2512,2518,2521,2530,2541,4544 Lockheed Hudson A16-91,101,126,153,163,181,201,216,NZ2033 Lockheed Ventura Bu34802,NZ4522,4609,1613,1623 Stinson L-5 Sentinel,42-98066,98074,98085 Dauntless NZ5050,5051,41-15798 B-26 Marauder 40-1468,1492,1508,1529 C-47 , A65-56,61,KN344,VH-CFX,VH-CGZ,VH-CUP,41-18564,18568,18601.42-23487,23605,23959,24228,5647,92049,92062,93499.43-16011,16114,16224,16230 ,plus unknowns Bristol GAF Beaufort , A94-84,89,106,183,186,197,204,211,213,225,244,247,236,262,313,376,374,483,493,517,517,571,6650,661,625,599,630,660,701,plus unknowns UC-64A Norseman 43-5172 C-46 Curtiss Commando , 42-101046,101207.44-78490 Northrop P-61 Black Widow, 42-5515,62,39445 Chance Vought F4U Corsair, 17435,17804,37114,40652,NZ5204,5205,5207,5221,5236,5241,5255,5271,5274,5276,5283,5287,5292,5306+,5317,5319,5336,5376,5379,5400,5402,5412,5413,5414,5415,5429,5450,5464,5480 Kittyhawk, A29-5,15,93,100,108,141,160,313,327,343,348,350,371,407,432,437,457,464,472,507,514,536,537,538,554,568,570,571,574,577,581,601,631,641,649,821,824,901,42-104986,105477,C3-562,NZ3121,3126,3137,3153,3154,3155,3165,3166,3169,3175,3186,32188,plus unnkowns -
Ballarat Tramway MuseumDocument - Photocopy, Alan Bradley, "Tram front wrecked but driver unhurt", mid 1990's
Yields information about tramway accidents in Drummond St Ballarat, during the SEC era and in particular on in 1963 when a tram was in a collision with a cattle truck. Significance is reduced by the quality of the photocopy but gives the source details.Photocopy of a photograph and article that appeared in The Courier, Ballarat newspaper of 22/1/1963 tram No. 27 that had collided with a truck at corner of Drummond Nth and Mair St the previous Saturday. Refer to Reg Item 4045 for further details. Shows the tram after the collision with the St John of God Hospital in the background. Collected by Alan Bradley from State Library - see note on Reg Item 4045.trams, tramways, accidents, collision, drummond st, mair st -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumLeisure object - Model SS Time, Jim Sutherland
10.00AM - Received call to prepare and proceed to S. S. Time aground on Corsair Rock with other members of salvage party. Took taxi home to pick up warm clothing and gear returning at once to Fleet Forge works. Arrangements made to board tug Eagle at 5 North Wharf at 1.30PM with diving gear and salvage pumps.Scale model of SS timess time, wrecks, port phillip, corsair rock, model ship -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumDomestic object - 10 items recovered from the Cambridgeshire wreck site
CAMBRIDGESHIRE (J. Marshall) was on voyage from Gravesend UK to Sydney, New South Wales with a cargo of general goods and a crew of 40, when she was lost off Cambridgeshire Reef. Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?543123 glass bottles, 3 ceramic ink bottles, 2 ceramic bottles, 1 brass door knob, 1 engraved metal discunderwater relics, salvage, glass bottles, ceramic bottles, ceramic ink wells -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumFunctional object - Doors
There are only seven shipwrecks in Victoria that have had more than 100 objects recovered from them reported as a result of the Commonwealth Amnesty held in 1993-94. These are the Loch Ard (1878), Schomberg (1855) and Fiji (1891) - all situated along the western district 'Shipwreck Coast' - and the George Roper (1883), Light of the Age (1868), Joseph H. Scammell (1891) and Victoria Tower - all situated along the short section of the 'Surf Coast' between Point Lonsdale and Torquay.The Victoria Tower is archaeologically significant as the wreck of an international inward-bound passenger and cargo vessel. It is educationally and recreationally significant as a coherently intact example of a British built iron clipper ie: representative of a class or type. Along with the wrecks of the Light of the Age (1868 - American-built wooden clipper ship) and Sussex (1871 - Blackwall frigate) nearby these vessels represent the three major design classes, and span the evolution of commercial and immigrant sailing ships used by the British in the colonial Australian trade in the last half of the nineteenth century.2 Doors from the 'Victoria Tower' made from teak and mahoganydoors, salvage, shipwreck, torquay, victoria tower -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumSign - Metal letter A
The steamship, SS Australia, was built in Greenock, Scotland in 1892, for the P & O Steam Navigation Company. Australia was considered to be one of the most luxurious vessels afloat and she held the speed record from England to Australia at the time. On 21st June 1904, due to pilot error, the Australia hit the notorious Corsair Rock, part of the Point Nepean Reef, on the eastern side of Port Philip heads, opening a gaping 5 meter hole along her keel. Passengers and some of the crew were rescued by craft sent from Queenscliff.Relic from a significant wreck on Corsair Rock at Point NepeanMetal letter A mounted on timber board in front with salvage account on the backAccount of salvage of artefactsign, ships name, ss australia -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumFurniture - Chair, canvas
Thought to be from the SS Time as donor's relative was part of the salvage group in 1949As the salvage group was made up of fishermen form Queenscliff the wreck of the SS Time at Port Phillip Heads as well as its salvaged items are still of great significance to the community at Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale. Timber chair with arm rests and canvas seat and backchair, ss time, salvage -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumFunctional object - Propeller
HMS J3 (later HMAS J3) was a J-class submarine operated by the Royal Navy and later the Royal Australian Navy. After the war, the British Admiralty decided that the best way to protect the Pacific region was with a force of submarines and cruisers. To this end, they offered the six surviving submarines of the J-class to the Royal Australian Navy as gifts. J1 and her sisters were commissioned into the RAN in April 1919, and sailed for Australia on 9 April, in the company of the cruisers Sydney and Brisbane, and the tender Platypus. The flotilla reached Thursday Island on 29 June, and Sydney on 10 July. Because of the submarines' condition after the long voyage, they were immediately taken out of service for refits. Apart from local exercises and a 1921 visit to Tasmania, the submarines saw little use, and by June 1922, the cost of maintaining the boats and deteriorating economic conditions saw the six submarines decommissioned and marked for disposal.The wreck of JR can still be seen off Swan Bay2 propellers from the J3 submarine 'HMAS Reaper'j3, j class submarines, hmas reaper -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumFunctional object - Snuffer for Candles
Candle snuffers, off "Loch-Ard" RelicsRelics recovered from the wreck site of the Loch Ard prior to amnestyConical candle snuffer from the Loch Ardloch ard, ships relics -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumDomestic object - Candle Holder metal trays (6)
Relics from the shipwreck of the 'Loch Ard'Well known shipwreck near Port Campbell, Victoria, wrecked in 1878 with only two survivors.Six pressed metal trays with varying degrees of damage, corrosion and encrustation. salvage, ships relics, loch ard -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Functional object - Salvage from Couta Boat
The couta boat Pilota was hand built by Alf Fredrickson of Portland in 1900 for Les (Slippery) Eales of Port Fairy. The vessel was wrecked at Port Fairy in the 1980s with loss of two lives. The oar was broken during the wreckingCouta Boat Parts: mast, rudder, centre board plate, 1 oar blade & loom in 2 parts, pair of knees, samson post, fairlead, 2 tiller & bow sprit [Jib boom] from the couta boat PILOTA built in 1900. couta boat, boat parts, salvage, port fairy, les eales, portland -
Queenscliffe Maritime MuseumLeisure object - Toy train wheels
The Loch Ard ran aground crashing into Mutton Bird Island in 1878. The only two survivors Tom Pearce and Eva Carmichael managed to drag themselves to the safety of the beach inside Loch Ard Gorge. For a moment, these two tragic teenagers were the talk of the English-speaking world, which very much hoped they would marry (they did not).Relics from a very well know wreck near the Twelve Apostles in VictoriaForty miniature toy train wheels some with encrustations.loch ard, toys, salvage
