More than 850 shipwrecks line South Australia’s coast. They hold stories of disaster, heroism, failure and survival. Whether caused by bad weather, ...

The Lighthouse is Port Adelaide’s icon. It stands at the end of Commercial Road marking the place where the city meets the Port River. First lit in ...

Nine ships left Britain for the newly created Province of South Australia in 1836. Estimates of the precise number of intending settlers vary but the ...

The Port River is home to some of the most urbanised dolphins in the world. A pod of about thirty dolphins makes the river estuary its home and as man...

A favourite for every visitor is the replica ketch Active II. The Active II was built by shipwright Bill Porter and rigged by sailmaker Don Lucas in ...

First Voyages: Exploring the Southern Coast charts a history of exploration from the Greek geographer Ptolemy’s ancient speculation about an unk...

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...

South Australia established its navy in 1884. Her Majesty’s Colonial Ship Protector sailed into Semaphore to overwhelming public support. Colonial l...

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

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...