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  • Champion of the Seas
    $15.00 Champion of the Seas
    Book Softcover; Rod Fraser. The 2447 ton clipper Champion of the Seas was launched on April 19, 1854 - the largest sailing ship in trade afloat and as fast as she was beautiful. On one of her noon-to-noon runs she covered...
  • Emerald Strand
    $35.00 Emerald Strand
    Book The Irish contribution to Victorian politics, law, medicine, education, engineering and public administration is well known. So is the saga of countless Irishmen who built and maintained roads, bridges, railways and...
  • Lifeboats For Victoria: The Story of Lifeboats and Their Crews in Victoria 1856-1979
    $28.00 Lifeboats For Victoria: The Story of Lifeboats and Their Crews in Victoria 1856-1979
    Book Marten Syme The Colony of New South Wales established the first government supported lifeboat service. The Colony of Victoria confidently moved to provide its coast with a well supported resource from 1856 until the...
  • Passenger Arrivals at Port Phillip and Other Victorian Ports Index 1846
    $20.00 Passenger Arrivals at Port Phillip and Other Victorian Ports Index 1846
    CD record This index lists 2052 entries for arrivals of passengers at Port Phillip and other Victorian ports, throughout the year 1846. The contents of this index have been compiled from State Records New South Wales...
  • Place to lay my head: Immigrant shelters of nineteenth century Victoria
    $44.00 Place to lay my head: Immigrant shelters of nineteenth century Victoria
    Book Life could be grim during the nineteenth century for poor immigrants disembarking at Victorian Ports - unless relatives or friends looked after them until they found employment and could afford to rent a cottage or...
  • Tales from the surf coast, shipwreck coast and their hinterlands
    $14.00 Tales from the surf coast, shipwreck coast and their hinterlands
    Book This is the author's final collection of stories portraying aspects of history around Geelong, on the Bellarine Peninsula, and a long the west coast.The kaleidoscope of persons, places and evenst makes absorbing...

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