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Near misses and tragic losses – sailing the last commercial wind ships

Posted on Wednesday 24 February 2021

  Built to carry bulk cargo across oceans, windjammers were able to weather all but the most ferocious of storms. The enormous iron and steel shi...

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Sea Shanties on the High Seas

Posted on Wednesday 17 February 2021

On Sunday 23 February 1936 Harry Andrewartha wrote in his diary “The weather today is fine and we have the gramophone out on the deck and we are all...

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Rounding Cape Horn in a Windjammer

Posted on Wednesday 10 February 2021

  The Cape Horn passage, at the southern tip of South America is renowned for frigid weather and monstrous seas. Unimpeded by large landmasses, w...

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New immersive exhibition ‘Windjammers’ to open at the South Australian Maritime Museum

Posted on Thursday 14 January 2021

  Immerse yourself in the newest permanent exhibition to be installed at the South Australian Maritime Museum, Windjammers, open from 25 January ...

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Adam’s Awesome Aquatic-themed Film List

Posted on Friday 08 May 2020

We’re all trying to find something to keep our minds busy during quarantine (including coming up with alliterations for blog post titles…)...

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Yelta

The Port’s Tug

Posted on Friday 11 August 2017

Written by Cassandra Morris | September 11th, 2012 Yelta is a key part of South Australia’s industrial heritage, the last working steam tug in the S...

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Mr Bond’s photographic studio

Posted on Friday 19 May 2017

Written by Lindl Lawton | 19 May 2017 Port Adelaide was a defiantly working class suburb in the first half of the 20th century. Wharfies lived from we...

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Sir James Hardy’s ‘Black Bottle’ Victory

Posted on Friday 21 April 2017

Written By Adam Paterson | 21 April 2017 In late March, 1966, many of Australia’s best sailors were joined by 27 international competitors for t...

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Norma, the headless figurehead

Posted on Friday 07 April 2017

Written By Lindl Lawton | 7 April 2017 Norma once adorned the prow of a four-masted barque built in Glasgow in 1893 that carried vast cargoes of whea...

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Port Adelaide’s wool stores

Posted on Friday 24 February 2017

By Lindl Lawton | 24 February 2017 Lumbering 19th Century wool stories, their jarrah floors steeped in lanolin, line Port Adelaide’s Santo Parad...

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