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24.01.2022 The Australian National Maritime Museum is planning a number of HMB Endeavour voyages to Tasmania, New Caledonia and New Zealand in 2019. See below for more information.

22.01.2022 A big thank you to Robin & Pam Hicks for hosting our Wind-up gathering. The collection gets bigger & better each year!

21.01.2022 On December 4th, the Duyfken replica was loaded onto heavy-lift ship Marsgracht last Friday at F Berth (Fremantle Passenger Terminal). Marsgracht had two 80-tonne capacity cranes to lift the 120-tonne wooden ship onto its deck. After a lot of lashing and fastening in the afternoon, Marsgracht set sail for Newcastle at 6pm that day. Duyfken will be based in Sydney. Farewell little dove!

19.01.2022 Our Pre-Christmas Journal makes great reading and membership includes free quarterly editions. A great Xmas present! Membership application forms and past Journal copies can be downloaded from our website.

16.01.2022 Radio interview with Ian Forsyth about A Hazardous Life, biography of harbour master Capt. George Forsyth. Be listening to Tony Howse's Capital Events programme on Saturday 13 April from 9am on Capital Radio 101.7FM (Perth) or Capital Digital. Painting by Capt. George Forsyth of the harbour master's lugger painted in 1888.

13.01.2022 Wonderful End of Year lay up at Robin Hick workshop in Orange Grove. Launch of the MHA new publication’The Waugal and Swan’ by Jill Worsley.

12.01.2022 Getting ready for our big day.

12.01.2022 This beautiful 3.5m traditional wooden dinghy is reluctantly offered for sale by the Maritime Heritage Association. Looking for a new appreciative home!

09.01.2022 The official launch of A Hazardous Life took place on Tuesday evening at Fremantle Ports. Our thanks to Fremantle Ports for hosting the event; perfect location to recall the life of a former Fremantle harbour master. See more about the book at a-hazardous-life.com

07.01.2022 Albany Festival of the Sea 2019 Saturday 20 April (Easter Saturday), 10.00am - 4.00pm, at the Albany Boatshed A festival of food, wine, beer, cooking, boat building (build a boat in a day), gaff riggers, old boats and music. The MHA’s Ross Shardlow and Robin Hicks will be presenting a display of marine art and traditional maritime tools and artefacts. They attracted a big crowd at last year’s event (photo below of part of their display before the crowds arrived).

06.01.2022 You can buy your copy of A Hazardous Life, recently published by the MHA, from the following bookshops: The Chart and Map Shop, Fremantle New Edition, Fremantle Crow Books, East Victoria Park WA Maritime Museum shop, Victoria Quay, Fremantle... Saga Bookshop, South Fremantle Millpoint Caffe Bookshop, South Perth Collins Booksellers, Cottesloe Fremantle Arts Centre Paperbark Merchants, Albany And by mail order from: http://www.maritimeheritage.org.au/?page=publications

04.01.2022 Beginning on Saturday 8 June at the Fremantle Arts Centre an exhibition of works by Capt George Forsyth, the subject of the biography, A Hazardous Life, which was published by the MHA earlier this year. Entry is free.

03.01.2022 Thanks to Fremantle Shipping News for your coverage of MHA's latest publication, the never before told story of Captain George Forsyth, Mariner and Harbour Master, authored by his great grandsons Ron and Ian

02.01.2022 The Waugal and the Swan by Jill Worsley Published in 2019 by the Maritime Heritage Association.... This is a story of a river. Now called the Swan, the river was known to the local Nyungar people as the Durbal Yaragan The Nyungar had used the river and its environs for thousands of years, but in 1650 they witnessed the arrival of the first European ships off the coast, an event that was eventually to bring big changes to their way life. In this book, Western Australian maritime historian, Jill Worsley, explores the traditional use of the river and charts the changes that took place with the arrival of Europeans between 1650 and 1850. Dutch, and later french, explorers visited the area but it wasn't until 1829 that British colonists settled along the river. The arrival of the first convicts in 1850 began a new phase of development, as labour became available to begin building the city of Perth we know today. Use of the river may have changed but it remains important in the lives of those who live here. Understanding the ways in which the river has been used over this particular 200 year period may lead to a greater appreciation of our different connections with it. Order on line at our website: www.maritimeheritage.org.au