The Brasseys visited Australia in winter 1887. After the publication of her previous travel diaries on the yacht the Sunbeam, Lady Annie Brassey mentions the Williamstown and Port Melbourne Sailors' Rest and Seamen's meeting.

Lady Brassey and her husband Lord Thomas Brassey donated the proceeds of the Sunbeam visitation in Williamstown to the Sailor's Rest (£63). They also presented the Port Melbourne Sailors' Rest with a cheque of £50 as a contribution to the new building fund. Lady Brassey died of malaria at the end of their voyage and was buried at sea. Lord Brassey also donated £10 every year to the Seamen's Mission. Lady Brassey was remembered during the opening of the new building in Port Melbourne in February 1889. A portrait of her was dedicated in November the same year. Lord Brassey came back in Victoria on the Sunbeam to become the new Governor in 1895.

PDF copy with illustrations

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Paperback blue cover with red English merchant Navy flag. 74 pages

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From the 1942 cover: We are proud to announce this book by Frank Laskier, "a sailor, an Englishman," the merchant seaman who gave the ever-memorable postscript after the BBC news on the first Sunday in October. The millions of listeners who heard that deeply moving voice will welcome an opportunity to read many more stories of the war at sea, which Laskier tells with the incomparable vividness of simple truth, and which made him a great broadcast speaker overnight. Laskier sounds, too, the note of victory that will bring a universal response-"Remember what we have been through; remember what we're going through; and fight and fight, and never, never, never, give in!" The publisher of this new edition has included an introduction and explanatory footnotes, as well as an appendix listing the ships mentioned in the book along with their descriptions. First published in 1942 by George Allen & Unwin, London

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Content: WHC Darvall's death Mission's motor boat New central mission Institute Williamstown Rest condition LHLG and their work Thanks Opening hours Advertising

Published for some 30 years by the Victorian Missions to Seamen issued to supporters the series contributes to the history of the organisation. It is a key cross reference supplying many details and dates of Chaplain and LHLG activities in both Melbourne, Port Phillip and other States where Missions were gradually established and information not able to be included in Annual Reports. It is also a source of images.

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From AUSTRALIAN POTTERY AT BEMBOKA website: "Gabrielle Brunsdon grew up in Sherbrooke Forest, Mt Dandenong. In the 1990s, she developed a method of painting ceramics using glazes in many colours inlaid with lines of oxide to define the image, and high-fired to produce vivid glassy colours. She also makes a line of lustre ware and works in other media as well - silks, wool, photography and design. Her ceramic work is marked with an incised 'Gabrielle Brunsdon Australia' or 'G Brunsdon Australia'."

Arts and Crafts

Bulbous shaped vase, bright floral pattern on deep blue background.

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From AUSTRALIAN POTTERY AT BEMBOKA website: "Gabrielle Brunsdon grew up in Sherbrooke Forest, Mt Dandenong. In the 1990s, she developed a method of painting ceramics using glazes in many colours inlaid with lines of oxide to define the image, and high-fired to produce vivid glassy colours. She also makes a line of lustre ware and works in other media as well - silks, wool, photography and design. Her ceramic work is marked with an incised 'Gabrielle Brunsdon Australia' or 'G Brunsdon Australia'."

Arts and Crafts

Bulbous shaped vase, bright floral pattern on deep blue background.

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During the Covid 19 pandemic, the Mission to Seafarers was forced to close and stopped its activities on site. However the staff continued the ship visiting, shopping and delivering their goods to the seafarers. The wearing of the face mask was enforced during the second lockdown.

The face mask is the symbol of the 2020 pandemic.

Blue fabric face mask with black elastic

Logo of the Mission to Seafarers with the Flying Angel

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Navy blue cover with gilded title. viii, 216 p., [30] p. of plates : ill., 2 maps, ports. Bibliography: p. 208-210.

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An account of the Volum family, largely Peterhead in Scotland, where they were involved with whaling, but also in Geelong Australia, Ceylon, England and Peru. It has fourteen appendices on a variety of topics plus forty-one illustrations.

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Although donated with the Volum collection, this candle holder may have not been used on board ship,. The trademark with the trumpet and banner indicates it was made after 1879 (according to reference) by Sheffield manufacturer James Dixon & Sons.

Victorian silver electroplated candle holder with candle

Maker's mark underneath: Z / Trumpet symbol / J / D / & /S / E / P / B / M / 389 / b

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Mahogany chest

Label on top lid:

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Because of the initials JV on the bottom part this portable desk possibly belonged to James Volum (1803-1884) The volum family originally from Peterhead, Scotland, had a long seafaring history. Several members of the family were mates, ship captains in the whaling industry and the merchant navy. James Volum settled in Geelong with his brothers, Andrew Volum and William Volum. He purchased brewery there (Volum Brewery) and the Barwon paper mill at Fyansford.

This set is a rare example of campaign furniture, a type of portable furniture an officer or ship captain would take with him to bring his personal belongings. This type of secretary would have been used by Volum to write in the ship log.

2 sets of drawers setting one on top of each other. The top part is fitted with a secretary drawer

On top of the bottom set of drawers: initials "J.V" and "# 3"

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The window in this photograph was commissioned by the Sandringham Yacht Club in conjunction with a Masonic Lodge and work carried out by Gerry Cummins in 1980. In the background is the S.S. 'Kanimbla' built 1935, Belfast for McIlwraith McEacham and was the last large passenger ship built specifically for Australian owners. Designed to carry 400 passengers , she plied her trade around the Southern and Eastern Ports of Australia. In WW2 she was an armed merchant cruiser and served in Indian waters and escorted the 1st convoy out of the Singapore after the Japanese invasion. She later operated in the Pacific after the war and after repatriation duties she was decommissioned and subsequently sold to be renamed 'Oriental Queen' which eventually caught fire and sank. . The small yacht in the foreground refers to the Sandringham YC. Window measurements: 600mm x 900mm

Bottom left corner: Proposed Stained Glass Window, Mission to Seamen. (Scale: Full Size) Right Left corner: Gerry Cummings

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Mahogany chest

Label on top lid:

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Navy blue cloth cover with embossed golden lettering on the spine, and mustard dust jacket illustrated by original painting by Commander DGM Gardner. xvi, 176 p. : 16 plates, illus., maps, ports. ; 22 cm. Includes index.

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From dust jacket: This is the unique story of the sailing ships owned by Sir William Garthwaite between 1915 and 1929, which formed in fact the last sailing merchant fleet to trade under the British flag. Captain A.G. Course, a Cape Horner himself, tells the story of this fleet whose vessels sailed so often past the awesome tip of South America, with a wealth of detail, happily marrying factual information and anecdote to produce a valuable historical record. Here are some of the last great characters of the age of sail, both men and ships, brought to life. The author's own close contact with the vessels and their crews allows him to capture the atmosphere most realistically. The Garthwaite ships, for all the effort put into their operation, were fighting a last-ditch stand against the inevitable supremacy of steam. It is with a certain nostalgia that the author records the passing of a fine fleet and documents an important chapter in maritime history.

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"BARAMBAH A37 HMAT" Australian Government / 1912 built as the "Hobart" a cargo steamship for/ the German-Australian line, Hamburg. In 1914 seized at Melbourne and refitted as a Troop transport, renamed "Barambah" and given the prefix A37. Remained in such capacity until 23 May 1918 then transferred to Commonwealth Government Line of Steamers fleet. In early 1925 sold to North German Lloyd, Bremen and renamed "Justin", until scrapped May 1935. The original photograph was by J.E. Barnes of Kew who was also known as the embarkation photographer ( see also Kew Historical Society entries on Vic Collections)

This photograph of significance and interest as it is believed to be Port Melbourne in 1914 quite close to the Mission to Seamen at PM who may have had the mission facilities used by the crew of this ship. It shows: the nature of a small steamship used for troop movement 1914, also some of the family groups gathered to farewell loved ones departing for action during WW1.

Black and white landscape orientation photographic print of steam ship at dock with crowds of people waiting dockside. The print is housed in a plain black frame with glazing, mountboard support with composite board backing 4 removable clips and hanging system composite backing with angled freestanding foot.

printed Label on back of print and handwritten label on back of frame: " BARAMBAH / A37 HMAT / Australian Government / 1912 built as the Hobart a cargo steamship for/ the German-Australian line, Hamburg...." (see also History and Significance this record for full details)

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