Chris Frame: The Evolution of the Passenger Ship
The SMSA will host Chris Frame who will examine the evolution of the passenger ship and explore the changing shape of these ships, Wed 10 Oct, 2-3pm.
Hell Ship: the journey of the Ticonderoga
This History Week, Lake Mac Libraries and Michael Veitch share one of Australia’s most horrific maritime journeys, that of the emigrant ship Ticonderoga.
Songs of Life and Death at Sea
As part of History Week 2018, the Australian National Maritime Museum invites you to join them for a night of songs about both life and death at sea.
Life and death in paradise – the Bounty mutineers and their descendants on Pitcairn Island
Dr Nigel Erskine, Head of Research at the Australian National Maritime Museum will talk about the history of life and sometimes gruesome death on Pitcairn Island.
The 1857 Dunbar Disaster
The City of Sydney Historical Association invites you to join them on Saturday 14 April for a guest lecture by historian John Lanser who will tell the story of Sydney’s most famous shipwreck.