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Society For Underwater Historical Research
The Society for Underwater Historical Research (SUHR) was an amateur maritime archaeology organisation operating in South Australia (SA). It was formed in 1974 by Recreational diving, recreational scuba divers and other persons to pursue an interest in maritime archaeology and maritime history. The SUHR was renamed as the South Australian Archaeology Society in March 2012 as part of a plan to expand its activities beyond maritime archaeology to include other archaeological disciplines. Origins The SUHR was founded in September 1974 by recreational scuba divers principally from the Underwater Explorers Club of South Australia (UEC) and Professional diving, occupational scuba divers from government agencies such as the South Australian Museum and the South Australia Police, South Australian Police, as well as a number of individuals interested in maritime history. The origin of the SUHR is due in part to the positive public response to the aftermath of a successful expedition in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Archaeology Society
The South Australian Archaeology Society is an avocational archaeology organisation operating in South Australia. It evolved from the Society for Underwater Historical Research The Society for Underwater Historical Research (SUHR) was an amateur maritime archaeology organisation operating in South Australia (SA). It was formed in 1974 by Recreational diving, recreational scuba divers and other persons to pursue an int ... which was renamed in March 2012 as part of a plan to create an organisation with a broader community base in archaeological practice.Reynolds, Steve; (2012) 'Club News' in ''SDF News Sheet – June 2012” (Scuba Divers Federation of South Australia), at http://www.sdfsa.net/newsletters/2012/2012-06-News-Sheet.pdf, retrieved 11/06/2012 References Archaeological organizations 2012 establishments in Australia Clubs and societies in South Australia {{australia-archaeology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loch Vennachar
''Loch Vennachar'' was an iron-hulled, three-masted clipper ship that was built in Scotland in 1875 and lost with all hands off the coast of South Australia in 1905. She spent her entire career with the Glasgow Shipping Company, trading between Britain and Australia. The company was familiarly called the "Loch Line", as all of its ships were named after Scottish lochs. The ship was named after Loch Venachar, in what was then Perthshire. In 1892 ''Loch Vennachar'' survived being dismasted by a cyclone in the Indian Ocean. In 1901 she was sunk when a steamship collided with her in the Thames Estuary. She was raised, repaired and returned to service. In 1905 she sank again off Kangaroo Island. In 1976 marine archaeologists found ''Loch Vennachar''s wreck just off West Bay, Kangaroo Island. The Commonwealth ''Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976'' protects the wreck. Parts of one of her anchors were recovered in 1980 and are now preserved on Kangaroo Island. Building James and Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Lincoln
Port Lincoln is a town on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. It is situated on the shore of Boston Bay, which opens eastward into Spencer Gulf. It is the largest city in the West Coast region, and is located approximately 280 km as the crow flies from the State's capital city of Adelaide (646 km by road). In June 2019 Port Lincoln had an estimated population of 16,418, having grown at an average annual rate of 0.55% year-on-year over the preceding five years. The city is reputed to have the most millionaires per capita in Australia, as well as claiming to be Australia's "Seafood Capital". History and name The Eyre Peninsula has been home to Aboriginal people for over 40 thousand years, with the Barngarla (eastern Eyre, including Port Lincoln), Nauo (south western Eyre), Wirangu (north western Eyre) and Mirning (far western Eyre) being the predominant original cultural groups present at the time of the arrival of Europeans. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishery Bay
__NOTOC__ Sleaford Bay is a bay located in the Australian state of South Australia on the southern coast of Eyre Peninsula. It was named by the British navigator, Matthew Flinders in 1802. Extent & description Sleaford Bay is located on the south coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about south-west of the municipal seat of Port Lincoln. It lies between the headland of Cape Wiles at its western extremity and headland of Cape Tournefort at its eastern extremity. A subsidiary bay named Fishery Bay is located on its west side about north of Cape Wiles. History The bay was named after the town of Sleaford in Lincolnshire, England by the British navigator, Matthew Flinders in 1802. The Barngarla name for Sleaford Bay is ''Dhanana''. Zuckermann, Ghil'ad and the Barngarla (2019)Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together)'', Barngarla Language Advisory Committee.''Barngarlidhi Manoo'' – Part II The Baudin expedition who visited after Flinders gave it two names – Baudin used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semaphore, South Australia
Semaphore is a northwestern suburb of Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia. It is located on the Gulf St Vincent coastline of the Lefevre Peninsula about from the Adelaide city centre. History Semaphore was first surveyed for sale in 1849, at which time it was isolated by swamps to the south and the Port River to the east. In 1851, George Coppin, a prominent publican, theatrical entrepreneur and actor, built a two-storeyed timber hotel on the southern corner of The Esplanade and Blackler Street. A very high flagpole was erected to signal to his "White Horse Cellars" hotel at Port Adelaide the approach of ships, earning the area the name Semaphore, often called "The Semaphore". In 1856, an official government signal station was established at the intersection of The Esplanade and Semaphore Road, where officers would record the details of all vessels in Gulf St Vincent. It was also used to record information on water depth, tides and cargo loading. A Telegraph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Neill, South Australia
Port Neill (formerly Carrow) is a small coastal town on the eastern side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia about 3 km off the Lincoln Highway between the major towns of Whyalla and Port Lincoln. It is 576 km by road from Adelaide. The town offers protected beaches for swimming, as well as providing a venue for fishing, boating, sailing, skiing or skin-diving. History Matthew Flinders sailed past on 7 March 1802 and reported 'low front land, somewhat sandy, with raised land inland and of a barren appearance, its elevation diminishing to the northward.' The first land-based European exploration took place in April 1840, when the party of Governor Gawler, John Hill, and Thomas Burr explored the Spencer Gulf coast on horseback, they being the first Europeans to traverse the landward regions of this coast between Port Lincoln and the Middleback Ranges near Whyalla. They roughly followed the route of the present Lincoln Highway. During this expedition Gawler named Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Kinnaird (1877)
''Lady Kinnaird'' was a three masted barque which was built in 1877 at Dundee, Scotland by Brown & Simpson for W.B. Ritchie. She operated between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom and the Australian Colonies, Australian colonies. She was lost after running Ship grounding, aground in Spencer Gulf south of Cape Burr on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia early on 21 January 1880. Her main anchor was recovered from her wreck site in 1979 and was placed on display in the nearby town of Port Neill in January 1880 as part of the commemoration of the centenary of her loss. Origins ''Lady Kinnaird'' was built at Dundee in 1877 by Brown & Simpson for W.B. Ritchie. She was of iron construction and had three masts. She was reported as having at least one sister ship - ''Lord Kinnaird''. Career ''Lady Kinnaird'' had a career sailing between ports in the United Kingdom and ports in the Australian colonies which was shortened by her loss aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the city of Adelaide. Port Adelaide played an important role in the formative decades of Adelaide and South Australia, with the port being early Adelaide's main supply and information link to the rest of the world. Its Kaurna name, although not officially adopted as a dual name, is Yartapuulti. History Prior to European settlement Port Adelaide was covered with mangrove swamps and tidal mud flats, and lay next to a narrow creek. At this time, it was inhabited by the Kaurna people, who occupied the Adelaide Plains, the Barossa Valley, the western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, and northwards past Snowtown. The Kaurna people called the Port Adelaide area Yartapuulti, and the whole estuarine area of the Port River ''Yertabulti'' (''Yerta B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago (1856 Ship)
The ''Santiago'' was a 455-ton barque launched in 1856. It was built by Henry Balfour of Methil, Fife for the Liverpool shipping company Balfour Williamson. It sailed mainly between Liverpool and Chile, but also to Australia. Its remnant hull, which lies in a ships' graveyard in South Australia, is considered 'the oldest intact iron hull sailing vessel in the world.' Career After service with Balfour Williamson, she was sold in 1888 to a German company, and in 1890 to Norwegians. In 1901, the Adelaide Steamtug Company purchased the ship and sailed it from Newcastle, New South Wales to Port Adelaide with a cargo of coal. She was subsequently dismasted and used as a lighter. On 21 December 1907, she was used by Adelaide Steamtug Company in association with other vessels to recover the steamer Jessie Darling, which had collided with and sunk on top of the unmarked wreck of the barque ''Norma'' on 21 April 1907. The ''Norma'' had been sunk after a collision with the ship ''Ard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Haven, South Australia
North Haven is a north-western suburb of Adelaide, in the state of South Australia, Australia. It is located 20km from the CBD, and falls under the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is adjacent to Osborne and Outer Harbour. The post code for North Haven is 5018. It is bounded to the north and east by Oliver Rogers and Victoria Road, to the south by Marmora Terrace and the west by Gulf St Vincent. The small residential area north of the Gulf Point Marina is a part of Outer Harbour, though it lies within the boundaries of North Haven. History North Haven originally started as a private sub-division in Section 769 in the cadastral unit of Hundred of Port Adelaide. Its creation in 1976 was originally opposed by the Postmaster General of Australia due to "size & duplication of name else in Australia". Its boundaries have been altered as follows since 1976 – boundary with the suburb of Outer Harbour, addition of land from the suburb of Osborne and other 'unnamed land', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grecian (barque)
''Grecian'' was a sailing ship which was wrecked in a storm off Port Adelaide, South Australia in October 1850. History ''Grecian'', a fine barque, of 518 tons, sailed from The Downs bound for South Australia on 15 June 1850, almost exactly one year after her first such voyage. The trip was uneventful and she arrived in Gulf St Vincent on Sunday, 13 October, and made the light ship at about 4 pm. The weather was very stormy, with the wind blowing a full gale from the west-north-west. ''Grecian'' was anchored in apparent safety riding with a single anchor, with 65 fathoms () chain, and the passengers were served their dinner. At about 5:30, the gale increasing, another 75 fathoms were added to the anchor chain. About 7 pm, the gale still increasing, and the ship driving rapidly towards the shore, the second anchor was let go. Despite the two anchors, of 70 and 90 cwt. (3.5 and 4.5 tonnes), the ship continued driving until 9 pm, when she struck the beach. The rudder and sternpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Willunga, South Australia
Port Willunga is a semi-rural suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is known as Wirruwarrungga or Ruwarunga by the traditional owners, the Kaurna people, and is of significance as being the site of a freshwater spring said to be created by the tears of Tjilbruke, the creator being. The 2016 Australian census reported a population of 1,637 people. Port Willunga is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson and the local government area of the City of Onkaparinga. Port Willunga beach is one of the most photographed beaches in South Australia and is a popular wedding location featuring the remains of the old Port Willunga Jetty with its golden cliff faces, crystal clear waters and soft white sands. History Before the British colonisation of South Australia, the Port Willunga area, along with most of the Adelaide plains area and down the western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, was inhabited by the Kaurna people. There is a significan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
