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Bound for South Australia 1836
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24.01.2022 A great archaeological find! http://www.abc.net.au//pirate-blackbeard-booty-arc/5059478
23.01.2022 Sounds like fun! :)
22.01.2022 Primary teachers might be interested in this event in About Time: a series of professional discussions about how the Festival events can be linked to the Australia Curriculum: History. http://abouttime.sa.gov.au//exploring-australian-curriculu
22.01.2022 Uncle Matt While everyone seems to know about Flinders' trusty feline Trim, I bet few know of his family ties with one of the 19th century's most intrepid adven...turers. Here's a hint he disappeared in the Arctic searching for the North West Passage. Explorer Sir John Franklin perhaps acquired his taste for adventuring when he sailed as a 14-year-old midshipman on his Uncle Matthew's ship Investigator. Franklin later went on to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania (1836-1843). In 1841 his wife, Lady Jane visited Point Bolingbroke near Port Lincoln. She convinced the Governor of South Australia to erect a tablet on behalf of Sir John honouring Flinders, ' the illustrious Navigator' and his first glimpse of the southern coast. This marble tablet is part of the SA Maritime Museum collection and is on display in our exhibition First Voyages: Exploring the Southern Coast.
22.01.2022 Exciting! Don't miss your chance to see the tall ships!
22.01.2022 Still plenty to see in SA in May. Don't forget the Monday afternoon sessions for primary teachers about Exploring the Australian Curriculum: History through About Time events. There are still some places left. http://abouttime.sa.gov.au//exploring-australian-curriculu
21.01.2022 Who knew? Happy International Archives Day to one and all!
21.01.2022 SA Maritime Museum have been doing some great work to help protect the Protector!
19.01.2022 Attention Primary school teachers! We've still got some places left for the Bound for South Australia video conference sessions in week 10 (31 March-4 April) Ideal for your 4 and 5. Contact Allison at History SA 8203 9891 if you'd like to find out more.
19.01.2022 Lots of history happening in South Australia in May!
19.01.2022 Free entry to the SA Maritime Museum during the Port Festival, and a spooky production to see! Don't miss out! http://maritime.historysa.com.au/events/2013/haunted
18.01.2022 A mystery at Torrens Island!
18.01.2022 The tall ships are coming! The tall ships are coming! Don't miss out! TODAY in Port Adelaide. https://www.facebook.com/events/210512319113260/
17.01.2022 One for the diaries!
16.01.2022 Looking for something to do during school holidays? Always worth checking out the South Australian Maritime Museum!
16.01.2022 Some great material for family historians.
15.01.2022 Last day of About Time: South Australia's History Festival. So soon?
15.01.2022 They have some great guided and self-guided tours here. Worth a visit!
14.01.2022 Attention teachers! In response to feedback you've given us about the education resources, we've added downloadable PowerPoint presentations and short audio casts to the weekly themes pages on the website. Check them out - one of each for each week. This is the link to week 1 - check out the other 44! http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au/for-schoo/week-01.html
12.01.2022 Maritime history buffs might be interested in a few events in the About Time history festival program. Axel Stenross Maritime Museum in Port Lincoln will be showing off the restoration work on their tugboat 'Nabilla' on Sundays throughout May (http://abouttime.sa.gov.au//conservation-work-tug-boat-nab) , and the Port Victoria Museum is offering guided tours exploring the history of the Windjammer era. abouttime.sa.gov.au/content/windjammer-era. Enjoy!
12.01.2022 Looking for something fun to do? How about a visit to the Aviation Museum? Sunday 10 November is family fun day. http://www.saam.org.au/
11.01.2022 Windjammers exhibition closes soon - visit the South Australian Maritime Museum this Sunday and you can climb on board the One and All, too!
11.01.2022 Anchor argy-bargy Navigator Matthew Flinders anchored off Middle Island at the western end of the Great Australian Bight in May 1803. His crew went ashore to ...hunt geese, collect salt, cut firewood and boil down seal oil. Preparing to leave, Investigator's anchors dragged and a fresh wind threatened to blow the ship ashore. Flinders gave orders to sever the anchor cables and sail out to sea, abandoning two anchors. He meticulously recorded their position in his journal: longitude 12312’5 east, latitude 3005’1 south. 170 years later, in 1973 a South Australian expedition led by Doug Seton relocated Flinders’ anchors. Doug claimed the best bower anchor for South Australia. This ignited a heated bit of argy-bargy between Western Australia, South Australia, the Commonwealth and Britainall claiming ownership of the precious relics. The smaller stream anchor is now owned by the National Museum of Australia while Investigator's best bower anchor has pride of place in our exhibition First Voyages: Exploring the Southern Coast.
10.01.2022 Commonwealth War Graves Commission is searching for relatives of war dead. Please help by sharing this message. More info: http://ow.ly/nOHvH
10.01.2022 Some of the people who came to SA on those first nine ships are buried in West Terrace Cemetery. You can come and learn more about them and other early arrivals during About Time. http://abouttime.sa.gov.au/content/brave-few
09.01.2022 Looks interesting!
08.01.2022 So much history to explore in SA next month!
08.01.2022 Some great SA history events happening in May! The About Time program is online at http://abouttime.sa.gov.au/
07.01.2022 This might be of interest to some of our friends on Facebook...
06.01.2022 Thanks, Robyn. An interesting read.
06.01.2022 Did you make it down to the port for the tall ships?
06.01.2022 Doesn't this look beautiful? Maybe check it out if you are in Sydney this week.
05.01.2022 Theft, drunkenness and disorderly conduct, along with the threat of mutiny caused chaos at the new South Australian settlement on Kangaroo Island 177 years ago ...this week. The fledgling settlement, consisting of crew and passengers from the Duke of York and Lady Mary Pelham, is now in its third week and conditions are far from idyllic. In fact, the crew of the Lady Mary Pelham have turned mutinous, threatening to desert and refusing to work. They are constantly drunk, and there is a good deal of pilfering. Things get worse when some of the settlers take sides with the raucous crew. Added to this is increasing anxiety over their failure to find an adequate fresh water supply, which doesn’t help the quarrelling and complaining by all present. In fact, the climate becomes so threatening that a nervous Company Manager arms himself and sits up all night to guard the company’s liquor store. To further compound the situation, within days, the John Pirie and Rapid, captained by William Light, arrive on the Island, effectively doubling the number of people to be cared for on a daily basis. Then the well that has been dug now seems brackish, causing near panic. Will they be forced to abandon the Island settlement? With five more vessels still plying the waters, the South Australian experiment looks rocky to say the least. The South Australian Company had convinced their supporters that the Province would be a superior place to live, with no convicts a good place for respectable families. But the reality proved to be far more chaotic. In fact keeping people sober enough to do any work at all seemed to be the greatest challenge! See more
04.01.2022 What a great opportunity to go dolphin spotting at the Port. This weekend and next. http://maritime.historysa.com.au//archie-badenoch-dolphin-
02.01.2022 Teaching resources from the Australian War Memorial
01.01.2022 Nights with Nelly It was a wild dark night when the skipper informed Bruce that the globe had blown on Nelly's foremast lantern and the ketch was now invisible... at sea. With the globe clenched between his teeth, Bruce scaled the ratlings as the mast lurched from port to starboard. On 27 May Bruce Wallis, his son Shane, daughter-in-law Anna-liese and granddaughter Ottie visited the ketch Nelcebee and relived some of those stories. In 1964 Bruce Wallis and his mate Jimmy Adams were touring Australia on a working holiday. Heading to Port Adelaide in search of work they saw Nelcebee pulled up on the dock. Bruce asked the old bloke on the wharf if it still worked. Captain Eddie Powers informed him not only did it work, but they were looking for two deckhands. Next afternoon, the two travellers were chugging down the Port River headed for the gulf ports. Bruce was trained as a mechanical fitter and soon took over the position of engineer, working on Nelcebee for nine months. He recreated the photo of him in the engine room during his visit on Monday. Our ketch Nelcebee was constructed in Scotland in 1883 and reassembled in Port Adelaide. It worked until 1982one of the longest serving ketches in the Southern Hemisphere.
01.01.2022 Anyone keen to help the National Archives with a transcription project?
