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Australian Association for Maritime History

Locality: Fremantle, Western Australia

Address: PO Box 1873 6959 Fremantle, WA, Australia

Website: http://aamh.asn.au

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25.01.2022 Winter Reading 3 South Sea Argonaut James Colnett and the Enlargement of the Pacific 1772 -1803 by Granville Mawer. This is a lively biography of a relatively little known Royal Navy officer who was highly and controversially active in the Pacific in the 18th century. His attempt to build a settlement on the Pacific coast of America very nearly triggered a war with Spain. Later expeditions around the South Pacific were also highly controversial. ... This biography contributes greatly to our understanding of British activity in the Pacific - much of it unsavory by today's revisionist sentiment. If one cab get beyond that, the biography reveals a great deal that is worth discovering about a little known now larger than life character. https://scholarly.info//south-sea-argonaut-james-colnett-/

25.01.2022 Hi everyone - the Papers from the Hobart Whaling Conference held in May 2019 have recently been published by Navarine Press as part of the Roebuck Series. Ava...ilable from the following: In Hobart from the Maritime Museum of Tasmania Bookshop - 16 Argyle Street, Hobart 7000 From Conference sponsor - Boglio Maritime Books (look on the internet) Trade orders from Navarine Press - GPO Box 2178, Hobart 7001 See the Hobart Whaling Conference website for other details: https://www.whalingconference.org/

23.01.2022 A story from the State Records Office and State Library to 'buoy' your spirits... In January 1913, Western Australia inventor Mr George Grieve wrote to the Stat...e Government to alert them to his new patented device, a life belt and helmet combined. This sturdy contraption was intended to be an improvement upon existing lifebelts and provide greater buoyancy in even the roughest of seas. Mr Grieve sent photographs of himself proudly modelling his new invention, which you can see in all its glory here. The State Government agreed to test the apparatus and an iron weight was attached to the lifebelt which was placed in deep water for 36 hours and remained buoyant. The Chief Harbourmaster at Fremantle reported that "this apparatus is a very good invention and I think would be the means of saving many lives in a hurricane disaster, if carried on pearling vessels on the North West Coast". However, State Steamships already carried lifebelts and practical concerns were also raised with the sheer bulk of Mr Grieve's invention which would have been difficult to store. As such, the government declined pursuing an order for these new lifebelts and that was pretty much the end of the matter. We're not sure if Mr Grieve went on to patent further inventions, but we do think he looks rather fetching in his lifebelt and helmet. What do you think? State Records Office of Western Australia Western Australian Museum WA Maritime Museum Fremantle Press Fremantle Arts Centre City of Fremantle Visit Fremantle Fremantle History Society Australian Association for Maritime History Royal Perth Yacht Club South of Perth Yacht Club Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club Claremont Yacht Club Museum of Perth Heritage Perth Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour Josh Wilson MP Alannah MacTiernan East Fremantle Yacht Club Swan Yacht Club Hillarys Yacht Club

23.01.2022 Historic Vessel Vega https://www.facebook.com/watch/

22.01.2022 On behalf of the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) we would like to share the following free online talks with you. The ANMMs Classic and Wooden Boat Festival has unfortunately been cancelled this year due to COVID-19. However the talks have gone virtual. The talks are on three consecutive Thursdays (starting this week) and each one includes talented experts in their field. You can find more information here. ... They are all free and run from 7.308.30pm. Registration is essential for each talk. Thurs 14 May | Rot to Ritz https://www.sea.museum//oce/virtual-ocean-talk-rot-to-ritz There are a multitude of decisions to make on any heritage vessel project restoration, rebuilding, replicating and many more. Two people with a huge number of projects under their belts share their stories about heritage vessel works. Thurs 21 May | Seclusion at Sea https://www.sea.museum//virtual-ocean-talk-seclusion-at-sea We think physical distancing and quarantine measures today are challenging. Imagine being at sea for months on end, alone or with the same group of people sailing in some of the worlds most dangerous oceans how would you manage? Thurs 28 May | Famous Racing Yachts https://www.sea.museum//virtual-ocean-talk-famous-restrict Restricted 21-Foot Class Racing Yachts were the mainstay of Australian yachting between the two world wars, and some still exist today. Join this virtual talk to hear three expert presenters from around Australia.

22.01.2022 Book Reviewers Wanted Volunteers with some experience in reviewing books are invited to express their interest for a range of maritime history books. Reviews are included in our journal The Great Circle. Contact the editor: [email protected]

21.01.2022 News today that the 8700-tonne New Zealand owned freighter MV Limerick that was sunk off Cape Byron in 1943 by the Japanese submarine I-177 has been found. https://www.news.com.au///86e94424976dad00897b77a25ed4097f

20.01.2022 200th Anniversary Russian Expeditionary Ships Reach Australia On the 11 April 1820, the Russian ship Vostok, commanded by Commander Fabian Bellingshausen, arrives at Port Jackson on a voyage of scientific discovery to the Antarctic, followed by the Mirnyi on 19th April. http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au//sobelillingshausen

20.01.2022 TSS Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu Some lovely pics from special correspondent Boyd Willis of the 108 year old steamer at Queenstown New Zealand.

19.01.2022 Titanic Concern "The International Congress of Maritime Museums is both deeply concerned and disappointed to learn of the recent decision of a Virginia court over-riding an international agreement newly ratified by the UK and US governments1 to permit the invasive snatching of the radio equipment from out of the wreck of RMS Titanic..." Read more here:https://icmm-maritime.org///01/open-letter-re-rms-titanic/

18.01.2022 AAMH and ANMM National maritime Book Prize Winners Announced in Signals The winner of the 2017 Frank Broeze national book prize of $4,000 is Klaus Neumann for Across the Seas: Australias response to refugees (Black Inc, 2015). The first runner-up was Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick and Annie Clark for Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine inscriptions from Australias immigrant past (Arbon Publishing, 2016... The second runner-up was Alan Powell for Worlds End: British military outposts in the ring fence around Australia 18241849 (Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2016 The Australian Community Maritime History Prize of $1,000 was awarded to Western Australian Museum for Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja (Returning to Mokares Home Country). All the details at https://www.sea.museum//announcing-the-winners-2017-bienni

16.01.2022 Where Empires Collide: Dockyards and Naval Bases around the Indian Ocean - online conference. This one-day conference will examine the role and scope of naval bases and naval support facilities in and around the Indian Ocean. Sat, 31 Oct 2020, 18:30 Sun, 1 Nov 2020, 00:00 AWST https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-empires-collide-dockya

15.01.2022 Sheean VC The Queen has agreed to award the World War II seaman a posthumous Victoria Cross, which is Australia's highest military honour. Why is this the first for the RAN? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Sheean

15.01.2022 Heading to NZ? Make use of the 'bubble' and visit the many sites of NZ maritime history. You might like to visit this website as part of your trip planning. The New Zealand Ship & Marine Society was formed in 1949 and the website contains a random selection of short articles, a list of maritime books, short histories of shipping companies, the ships and personalities. https://nzshipmarine.com/

15.01.2022 Has anyone read "The Saltwater Story"? The Saltwater Story is a book authored by Benjamin Allmon. It is also a documentary film by Jeff Licence. Would you recommend it? I understand it is a discovery of the maritime world of the Bundjalung, Yugambeh, and Quandamooka peoples. https://boatgoldcoast.com.au/the-saltwater-story/

14.01.2022 Winter Reading The Defence Supplement in this Weekend Australian inspired the selection of this first in a series of recommended books for winter. The title of Ian McPhedran's book "The Smack Track: Inside the Navy's war: chasing down drug smugglers, pirates and terrorists" is a good introduction. It is the story of HMAS Darwin's patrol in 2016 across the Indian Ocean. McPhedran writes simply and evocatively of ship board life and the tasks the mostly young crew undertake ra...nging from seizures of heroin from a dhow to exercises with our allies. McPhedran weaves into the narrative enough naval history to provide the context required to appreciate the role the RAN now has. This book is history in the making - it will be a valuable source for future historians. For details see: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/978146075/the-smack-track/

13.01.2022 Indian Ocean Studies Conference a Success. The AAMH sponsored Sheridan College conference on Indian Ocean Studies was held over two days. A wide range of papers were presented. A full report will be published in the next Newsletter (March 2020). In the meantime here a couple of photos from the conference: Professor Erika Techera (AAMH Journal Editor) from UWA is congratulating Professor Heather Goodall, University of Technology Sydney on her paper "Sailors, soldier, traders and independence: Indian Ocean networks 1935 - 1950.

13.01.2022 Celebrating 100 years of container shipping and 110 years of the navy that protects it. In 2019 Australia celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the arrival of the Encounter Bay, commencing the era of international container trade connecting Australia to the world. In 2020 we celebrate 110 years of the Naval Defence Act. Read more here: https://www.navy.gov.au/spc-a... https://shippingaustralia.com.au/australias-maritime-histo/ See more

13.01.2022 New issue of The Great Circle out now with papers from some of the most respected maritime historians in our region. Read about the Walga Rock Ship mystery (Mack McCarthy), the Melbourne Sailors Home (Mark Howard), Capt Anthony Steel (Myra Stanbury), The whaleship Harriet (Rhys Richards), John Marshall's immigration scheme (Liz Rushen)

12.01.2022 Spring Reading - The Master of Hells Gates Well known to AAMH members, Chris Maxwell and Alex Pugh have written an extraordinary biography of a now little known master mariner and colonial identity. Captain William Kinghorne's life encompassed the Napoleonic Wars, smuggling in the North Sea, the brutal penal settlements of Macquarie Harbour and Port Arthur, the atrocities committed against the Aboriginal people of Tasmania, and the whaling industry of Jervis Bay before turni...ng his talents to building a pastoral estate in the Goulburn, Shoalhaven and Bathurst districts. This is the second biography of a member of the extended Chisholm family. Have you read it? What are your thoughts? https://scholarly.info//the-master-of-hells-gates-william/

11.01.2022 Last Cruise of the Emden Author, Wes Olson has sourced of a wealth of first-hand accounts from letters, diaries, memoirs, and German survivor statements to produce a detailed reconstruction of the battle at Cocos Island between HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden. From Seaforth Publishing

11.01.2022 Winter Reading 2 Shackled by Chris Turney is an account of a 2013 Antarctic expedition that had an eerily parallel experience to that of the famous Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition in 1915. Turney's account is lively and provides both historical and contemporary appreciations for Antarctic exploration. ... Christian S. M. Turney FRSA FGS FRMetSoc FRGS FHEA is Professor of Climate Change and Earth Science at the University of New South Wales. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/shackled-9780670079117

11.01.2022 Shipwreck Revealed Due to the on-going erosion of sand, parts of the 165-year-old barque Amazon are being seen for the first time since the commercial sailing ship was wrecked on the Victorian coast on December 15, 1863. The Amazon 1863 Project Inc group are hoping to recover some of the timbers from the beach at Inverloch. ... For more see: http://inverlochhistory.com/the-amazon-shipwreck/

11.01.2022 Call For Papers The Great Circle is the journal of the AAMH and the Editor is inviting researchers to submit papers for the journal. Maritime history is a broad subject and includes just about anything where people interact with the oceans, seas and rivers. Contact: [email protected]

10.01.2022 Your AAMH / Sheridan College Indian Ocean Studies Conference is next Friday. Come along. Subjects include: politics, diseases, commodities & trade routes, slave trade, religion, archaeology. Registration details:https://sheridanicon.weebly.com/

10.01.2022 Another wreck found: The schooner Barbara that was wrecked in 1852 when a northerly gale blew her into shallow waters at Rye in Victoria has been surveyed by Flinders University-based archaeologist Wendy Van Duivenvoorde. https://www.abc.net.au//shipwreck-at-rye-confirme/12103294

09.01.2022 The Conversation is running a series of essays on Captain Cook from different perspectives by different researchers over the coming weeks for the 250th anniversary of Cook's arrival on Australia's east coast. The Conversation is reputed for its academic rigour, and AAMH members are invited to take a look. https://theconversation.com/au/topics/cook250-78244

07.01.2022 Happy New Year Memberships for 2020 now open (as well as renewals) One of the many benefits of being a member is meeting new people. At our conference in November at Sheridan College I met Dr Nick Guoth, an Australian 19th century economic and maritime researcher. ... Dr. Guoth, has been in contact with the AAMH in relation to offering his services to perform research in the UK for Australian academics. Recently he was involved in a lengthy project relating to 18th and 19th century Asian lascars on British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Dr. Guoth now lives in London and thus can provide research services at a minimal cost eliminating the requirement for a trip to the UK, accommodation and living expenses as well as time taken. He has explained that he has access to a variety of archives and library services throughout the UK. If any member is interested in obtaining primary research material from the UK but is either hesitant in making the long journey or was not originally considering such a trip, then perhaps a conversation with Dr. Guoth may be worthwhile. There are no limitations on the topic of research. Dr. Guoth's email is: [email protected]

07.01.2022 1642 Abel Tasman is now available. It is part of a series titled, 'Australia Discovered.' australiadiscovered.com.au

06.01.2022 Anglo-Australian Naval Relations, 1945-1975 Mark Gjessing's book covers personnel, equipment, organisation and operations of the RN and RAN within the context of two great alliances going their not quite separate ways after WW2. The cultural ties between these two allies run deep. Your views welcome https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319927435

06.01.2022 Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network provides opportunities The MMHN aims to awaken Victorians (and Australians generally) to the rich maritime history of Melbourne. Check out their website https://www.mmhn.org.au/

05.01.2022 AAMH AGM: 6.00pm Monday 14 December 2020. Members are asked to attend to find out about what is planned for 2021 and to contribute to our future. Contact us at [email protected] for further details (including attendance via Zoom) if you didn't receive the notice via email.

05.01.2022 Video of the papers presented at the Indian Ocean Studies Conference are now available. Go to https://sheridan.edu.au//ext/2019-indian-ocean-conference

05.01.2022 Call for Papers: Have your research considered for publication in The Great Circle. The Great Circle is the journal of the AAMH and has been publishing maritime history research for over 40 years. Express your interest at [email protected]... For more information about the AAMH and The Great Circle go to www.aamh.asn.au

05.01.2022 Cutting it fine across our stern

04.01.2022 More Aussie maritime history Volume 42 Number 2 of our journal has just been published and is being posted to members today. It contains articles on the Port Phillip lime trade (by Peter Taylor), the voyage of the 'Forlorn Hope' (by Peter Gifford), new light on the portraits of Abel Tasman (by Rudigiger Mack), Berry & Wollstonecraft's 'Belinda' (by Ross Anderson) and a short history of the AAMH's contribution to Aussie maritime history (by Peter Ridgway)

04.01.2022 Boom to Bust: the death of cruising? The Cruise ship industry has gone from boom to bust in about one month with the spread of Covid19. World cruise numbers have been booming with passenger numbers almost doubling in 10 years from 17.8m in 2009 (Statista.com). Australia had the highest market penetration with 5.7% of the population taking a cruise in 2017. This represented a 18% increase per year over 10 years (cruising.org.au). Ship yards have been enjoying a boom too with 1...8 new ships launched in 2019, up from 14 the year before. The cruising trade had featured a trend for enormous ships such as the 227,000-tonne Harmony of the Seas, capable of accommodating more than 8,000 passengers and crew, for a number of years. However, over the last couple of years the trend has been towards small boutique ships (cruisecritic.com.au). This may save the industry in the long run as one doubts that passenger numbers will suddenly boom again. With share prices of the major cruise lines diving (82% drop for Norwegian Cruise Line), there is speculation that some companies and shipyards will go under (Motley Fool.com) as they have been heavily borrowing based on an never ending increase in passenger numbers. The fickle nature of tourism is such that cruising will likely take some time to recover post Covid19. In the meantime how many of the estimated 314 major cruise ships that are now trying to find a port will ever sail again?

03.01.2022 Book reviews in the Great Circle In the current issue: Elsbeth Hardie: The Passage of the damned: What happended to the men and women of the Lady Shore mutiny. Reviewed by AAMH ACT representative Michael Pearson. Francis Steel (ed): New Zealand and the Sea: Historical Perspectives... Reviewed by Kurt Bennett (Flinders University) Ron Forsyth and Ian Forsyth: A Hazardous Life: Captain George AD Forsyth (1843-1894) Mariner and First Harbour Master for the Colony of Western Australia. Reviewed by Peter Ridgway (AAMH). #australianmaritimehistory #maritimehistory #aamh

03.01.2022 The Catch Anna Clark's The Catch: The story of fishing in Australia (NSW) is a lively account of why so many Australian's take up fishing. It takes a deep look at the historical roots of fishing for sustenance and recreation, the species caught and equipment used. The most fascinating aspect that is explored is the culture of fishing.

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