Written by Jan Perry, Museum volunteer, with Gabrielle Sexton, Museum volunteer Anna Gadd, her spouse Johan Frederik Gadd and her young son Julius Gad...
Posted on Friday 29 January 2016
Written by Jan Perry, Museum volunteer, with Gabrielle Sexton, Museum volunteer Anna Gadd, her spouse Johan Frederik Gadd and her young son Julius Gad...
Posted on Tuesday 22 October 2013
The Torrens Island Quarantine Station (TIQS) story continues to unfold with the discovery of the diary of Gladys Ward at the State Library of South Au...
Posted on Tuesday 13 August 2013
Without its team of qualified coxswains, South Australian Maritime Museum’s historic launch Archie Badenoch wouldn’t be able to leave its berth ...
Posted on Monday 27 May 2013
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...
Posted on Thursday 18 April 2013
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...
Posted on Friday 15 March 2013
At the tender age of 27, Matthew Flinders took command of HMS Investigator under Admiralty instructions to chart and explore the last unknown Australi...
Posted on Monday 04 February 2013
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 ...
Posted on Tuesday 27 November 2012
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...
Posted on Thursday 01 November 2012
When the South Australian Maritime Museum received a donation of various personal possessions that previously belonged to a naval officer who had serv...
Posted on Wednesday 03 October 2012
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...