Without its team of qualified coxswains, South Australian Maritime Museum’s historic launch Archie Badenoch wouldn’t be able to leave its berth ...

I was walking the line behind Port Dock Station the old woolstores gave a strange vibration strapped up with steel, wood beams and bricks it was about...

Motorists travelling to Outer Harbor in the 1940s and 1950s would invariably have to contend with a horde of livestock across the roadway near Taperoo...

At the tender age of 27, Matthew Flinders took command of HMS Investigator under Admiralty instructions to chart and explore the last unknown Australi...

Just below the north-west end of Port Adelaide’s Birkenhead Bridge is an empty inlet, without boats or any sign of human activity.  Apart from the ...

In the early morning of 2nd October 1979, the night watchman on the dredge H.C. Meyer, Wally Patro, contacted the signal station at Outer Harbour adv...

When the South Australian Maritime Museum received a donation of various personal possessions that previously belonged to a naval officer who had serv...

Written by Emily Jateff | October 3rd, 2012 Whiz Bang IV belongs to the last generation of timber powerboats. Its plywood clinker hull was built by JP...

Written by Jan Perry| August 13th, 2012 This photograph, taken from the back of the cabin-cruiser Heatherbelle or its predecessor, shows that home-ma...

Written by Kevin Jones | June 4th, 2012 Torrens Island Quarantine Station has stood in splendid isolation since the 1880s … until we provided tours ...