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The Lighthouse Keepers
Stuart Buchanan
Samford: Coral Coast Publications, 2000. -
Early Shipping in Moreton Bay, 1846 – 1863 (2 Volumes)
Winifred Davenport; Betty Mottram
Brisbane: Winifred Davenport and Betty Mottram, 1998-2002.Volume 1: June 1846 – December 1859. Volume 2: January 1860 – December 1863 (Second Edition). A history of the ships that came and went from Moreton Bay taken from The Moreton Bay Courier and includes all named passengers and many other interesting details.
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Mirror of the Australian Navigation
Jacob Le Maire
Sydney: Hordern House, 1999.Australian Maritime Series No. 5. A facsimile of the ‘Spieghed der Austalische Navigatie…’ being an account of the voyage of Jacob Le Maire and William Schouten, 1615 – 1616, published in Amsterdam in 1622. With an introductory essay by Edward Duyker, New South Wales History Fellow, and English text by Alexander Dalrymple.
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Sailing Directions for the Coast of New South Wales (Gabo Island to Tweed Heads)
Department of Navigation, N. S. W
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, 1920.Issued under the Authority of the Colonial Treasurer.
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I’ll Go No More A-roving
Charles Ladds
Brisbane: The Bunyip Press, 1945.Charles Ladds (1903-1971) was an Australian writer who ran away to sea at the age of fourteen, and at the ripe old age of twenty-two wrote this story of his adventures, fist published in 1934. It earned praise from the critics, including G. K. Chesterton. He later lived at Burleigh Heads.
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Rules and Regulations as to Masters’ Certificates
Amalgamated Navigation Committee
Grimsby: Albert Gait, 1913.Includes examination questions and answers.
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Official Handbook: The Port of Sydney, N.S.W.
The Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners
Sydney: The Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners, 1919. -
The Kangaroo Heads South: Midshipman Cruise Alfa – USS Canberra – June 8 to August 6, 1957
Canberra (Guided missile heavy cruiser : CAG-2)
Norfolk: Tidewater Offset Printing Service, [1957].Being a Pictorial Voyage of the Kan-Do Kangaroo, on a Midshipman Training Cruise from the US east coast to South America and back. A cruiser of the United States Navy named to honour the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra sunk during the Battle of Savo Island. The first USN warship named after a foreign capital city. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the crew and illustrations of kangaroos. A ship tune, ‘sail on, Canberra’, sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda. Inscribed by a US Navy Captain to the front cover. 1 copy in OCLC at the United States Naval Academy.
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Early Australian Steamers
A. B. Portus
Sydney: The Builder Printing Works, 1905.A paper on early steam boats in Australia by Alexander Brown Portus (1834-1905), late Superintending Engineer of Dredges for the Public Works Department of New South Wales, read before the Australian Historical Society, 30th June, 1904. Describes the ships, their arrivals, movements, events, repairs, wrecks, and other historical minutiae, largely in New South Wales, but also of their movement and events in Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, and New Zealand.
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Hospital Ships
Rupert Goodman
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2016.Foreword by B. T. Treloar, AO, Rear Admiral RAN (Rtd).