Historical information
These migrant ship cards were used loose by the former Maritime Museum (Polly Woodside), and donated to PMHPS by A Gibson, National Trust Victoria, bound in January 2013 for use in the PMHPS display on migrant ships in Princes Pier Gatehouse
Physical description
One of three sets of laminated information cards, punched and roughly bound into a book for information display at "Piers festival".
(.01) - "Angelina Lauro" to "Esperance Bay" (.02) - "Fairsea" to "Moreton Bay" (.03) - "Northern Star" to "Stathmore"
Inscriptions & markings
The backs of the cards are pasted with sections of nautical maps.
Subjects
- transport - shipping,
- immigration,
- celebrations fetes and exhibitions,
- angelina lauro,
- arcadia,
- australis,
- canberra,
- captain cook,
- captain hobson,
- castel felice,
- chusan,
- dominion monarch,
- ellinis,
- esperance bay,
- fairsea,
- fairstar,
- fairsky,
- galileo galilei,
- suglielmo marconi,
- himilaya,
- iberia,
- johan van olden barnevelt,
- largs bay,
- maasdam,
- mariposa,
- moreton bay,
- northern star,
- orion,
- oriana,
- oronsay,
- ormonde,
- orsova,
- otranto,
- patris,
- roma,
- southern cross,
- stathaird,
- statheden,
- stathmore
