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Maritime Times of Tasmania Maritime Times of Tasmania No 72 – Spring 2020 $3.50 TASMANIAN TRADE The Tasmanian Fruit Trade Portrait of a merchant ship Trading ketch S.M.H.T. Electrona Carbide Trade Cargo ships trapped in the Suez TasPorts news Aust Maritime College MUSEUM NEWS President's message Notes from the curator and all our regular features Maritime Times of Tasmania Spring 2020 | 1 Maritime Museum of Tasmania by Kim Newstead CARNEGIE BUILDING from the president’s log Cnr Davey & Argyle Streets, Hobart, Tasmania Postal Address: GPO Box 1118, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Phone: 03) 6234 1427 Fax: (03) 6234 1419 email: [email protected] www.maritimetas.org MUSEUM REDEVELOPMENT UPDATE TIMING Open Daily 9am–5pm Acknowledgements (except Good Friday and Christmas Day) At the June Committee meeting, unanimous approval was It is now twenty years since the Museum relocated from Secheron House to the Carnegie Acknowledgement of Country Closed temporarily due to COVID restrictions given to an exciting plan to progressively redevelop the The Maritime Museum of Tasmania acknowledges the Tasmanian Aboriginal Maritime Museum. building in Argyle Street and the initial permanent peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of the waters and islands of exhibitions have remained largely unchanged. Yet during Tasmania that inform our work. We acknowledge and pay our respects to their This project will, in the first instance, see the development of this time we have gained considerable extra space following Elders, past and present, and those emerging. new exhibitions centred on Tasmania’s maritime history and our assuming responsibility for the Carnegie Gallery and our a new temporary exhibition gallery. This decision follows collections have continued to develop through generous Our Patron The Maritime Museum of Tasmania is pleased to acknowledge the support of its Patron: Committee’s consideration of the Museum’s exhibition donations and purchase. Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AC, Governor of Tasmania. needs over the past twelve months. As with all Museums the time comes when the exhibitions Our Supporters Strategically the redevelopment of the Permanent require an update and refresh; our time has arrived. The Maritime Museum of Tasmania gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Hobart, Murdoch Clarke lawyers, TasPorts and Arts Tasmania. Exhibition spaces offers the opportunity for the following outcomes over the next ten years: To enable the new exhibition and temporary gallery development to be undertaken in the most cost-effective • to better achieve the Museum’s mission; way possible the Committee has decided that the Museum will remain closed until early December 2020. More recent • to better achieve the objectives of the Museum’s Exhibition events in Victoria and New South Wales confirm in hindsight Policy; the wisdom of this decision. MMT Committee Members for 2020 • to increase the proportion of the Museum’s collection of In making this decision we are also taking advantage of a Kim Newstead, President Chris Tassell, Vice President Michael Stoddart state and national significance on display; period of abnormally low interstate visitation, our major 03) 6224 6660 [email protected] 0409 854 847 source of visitors. While no one really knows, it is forecast [email protected] [email protected] • to better meet the needs of the Museum’s principal visitor that interstate travel and in particular interstate air services group, interstate and overseas visitors; Beth Dayton, Secretary Rex Cox Pip Scholten are unlikely to return to anything approaching normal until, 0407 873 852 03) 6234 1865 03) 6267 4416 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] • to develop and maintain a sustainable temporary at the earliest, March/ April 2021. exhibition program to potentially attract more repeat Ross Studley, Treasurer Paul Armstrong Peter Wright FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS [email protected] 0407 932 641 03) 6288 7168 Tasmanian visitors; [email protected] The Museum is receiving the Government’s Job keeper The Committee also includes representatives from external organisations: • to develop a temporary exhibition gallery that meets assistance for its three staff members. This combined with Alderman Jeff Briscoe (Hobart City Council), Scott Carlin (TMAG), and Sara Schwarz (TasPorts) contemporary gallery environmental conditions for touring some successful smaller grant applications will enable us exhibitions. Maritime Times of Tasmania to achieve a comparable amount to that initially budgeted The quarterly magazine produced by the Maritime Museum of Tasmania The location of the main permanent exhibition focused on until the end of September. ISSN 2652-1393 print | ISSN 2652-1342 digital Tasmania’s maritime history in the Carnegie Gallery offers Because interstate visitation during October and November the opportunity to create a more structured and logical Cover images Back cover will be almost non-existent, we anticipate that we will incur Front cover top inset: Swedish reefer Atlantide visitor circulation route. Hobart, June 1970 a small loss whether we are open or closed during these New Zealand Pacific using double pallet gear months. From an income admission perspective there is loading containers of apples Significantly the use of Gallery 2 as a temporary exhibition Photo: AOT Hobart, April 1988 space offers the opportunity of direct visitor access to the no better time to implement the redevelopment. We are Photo: Noel Brown confident of our ability to continue attracting community lower inset: Brisbane Star Gallery independent of the core permanent exhibitions. This support, including grants throughout 2021 and beyond, for loading at Ocean Pier will provide alternative ticketing opportunities and greater Hobart, 12–13 March 1937 flexibility in managing visitors (particularly residents). the Museum and its diverse programs. Photo: Noel Brown (continued on next page) Work is well underway on the reconstruction of the Captain’s in this issue Maritime Times of Tasmania welcomes original historical or newsworthy articles for publication Cabin from HMAS Derwent. The layout design for the Contributions, reflecting the Museum’s mission to promote Images must have a caption, be credited to the photographer cabin has been finalised, and Ian Gibson has worked hard Tasmanian Trade research into and the interpretation of Tasmania’s maritime or to the source, and have written permission to publish. developing the design and material quantities. Through heritage, can be short notes, or articles with text about Please post your contributions to The Editor, 'Maritime HMAS Cerberus, we contacted a former Captain’s steward, 6 Portrait of a Merchant Ship - Sir John Rae Reid 700–1200 words, accompanied by images if possible. Times of Tasmania', GPO Box 1118, Hobart, TAS 7001, or who actually worked in the cabin! His visit brought back 11 Trading Ketch S.M.H.T. Text will be edited to comply with the magazine's style email with attachments to [email protected] and publication is at the discretion of the editor. many memories and helped us confirm furniture locations, 14 Electrona & the Carbide Trade Alternatively, you can leave your contribution at the supported by deck plans and cabin layouts. 18 The Tasmanian Fruit Trade Ideally, your contributions will be in a Word document, front desk of the Museum at the street address above. with embedded images or, preferably, with separate 300 Include your contact details. Add to your calendar: 22 Tasmanian Fruit sunk in the Suez dpi JPEG or TIFF files. We can accept legible handwritten The new Gallery 2 downstairs has been stripped for the 34 TasPorts news articles, with loose photographs, which we will copy. Deadline for the next issue is Monday 2 November 2020. contractors to commence the fit-out. PLUS Maritime Museum news and regular features 2 | Maritime Times of Tasmania Spring 2020 Maritime Times of Tasmania Spring 2020 | 3 from the president's log (cont.) THE OVERALL PLAN from the brig in remembrance The overall redevelopment program has a number of THE MODERN WORLD REVOLVES AROUND TRADE, new exhibitions is proceeding with a reopening planned individual components, some are interrelated and some with endless processions of goods and products being for early December. By presenting new exhibitions, are stand alone, basically the projects fall into three moved around the planet by sea and air. A product we hope that we will be able to encourage many more phases: will often have been transported to multiple locations locals to explore our stories even if interstate borders at different points in the production cycle, sometimes remain closed. While much of our current focus is on 1. Immediate July–December 2020 locally, sometimes in different countries or even redevelopment, staff and volunteers continue to explore • Convert existing Carnegie Gallery to Permanent Exhibition continents. Tasmania is part of this web. Some years ago other ways of engaging audiences with our Museum. One I bought some Tasmanian smoked salmon to take to a such project, Pics on the Rig, is described on page 28 and Peter Campbell • Create New Temporary Exhibition Gallery on ground floor family event on the mainland. When I collected the fish will bring something entirely new to Constitution Dock. on May Queen from the company’s office in Hobart I was asked where in D'Entrecasteaux • Refresh downstairs permanent exhibition I was taking it. 'Mount Barker,' I replied. My contact The COVID situation has required us all to adapt and Channel on a voyage change our behaviours and plans. Global trade has also between Hobart and laughed and told me that that was where my salmon Raminea, c.1940s • Upgrade off-site, Mornington, storage facility had just returned from as the company’s smoker was been affected. It is a testament to how strongly the located there. trade links and supply chains are across the world that, Photo: Peter Campbell aside from the consumer-led panic buying of the first In this issue we take a look at Tasmanian trade, viewing 2.
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