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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Written by Jan Perry, Museum volunteer, with Gabrielle Sexton, Museum volunteer Anna Gadd, her spouse Johan Frederik Gadd and her young son Julius Gad...