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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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…)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...