A Select Bibliography of Maritime Melbourne

This bibliography is designed to be your starting point. Each quoted work can lead you to others or you can use the National Library of Australia’s Trove search engine to find other references. Many of the government reports can be found on the internet. The State Library of Victoria or your local library can find most of the items listed or suggest others.

Aboriginal Maritime Melbourne

Meyer Eidelson, The Melbourne dreaming: a guide to the Aboriginal places of Melbourne, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997.

Gary Presland, Aboriginal Melbourne: the lost land of the Kulin people, Ringwood Vic: McPhee Gribble, 1994.

Gary Presland, First People: the Eastern Kulin of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Eastern Victoria, Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2010.

Dean Stewart, The Yarra River Story, Melbourne Koori Heritage Trust, 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkMhehS-iqo

Antarctic Research

Stefan Csordas, ANARE: a short history of the Australian Antarctic Research Expedition, Melbourne: Melbourne Maritime Museum, 1991[?].

Bellarine Peninsula

Lynette Willey, The waterholes: a history of Drysdale on the Bellarine, Drysdale Vic: Bellarine Historical Society, c2010.

Birrarung – the Yarra River

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Transforming the Yarra River, Melbourne: Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2016. A sound file. After almost fifty year of trying to 'Clean up the Yarra', Melbourne may finally get a tough, new Yarra River Protection Act. The vision is to deliver a 'world class river' for a 'world class city'. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/platypus,-seals-and- fairy-penguins...-in-the/7580020

Richard Capper, An Episode: Batman and Fawkner: Discovery of the Yarra River, Melbourne: Book Collectors Society of Australia, 1965.

City of Melbourne, Draft River Strategy, Melbourne: City of Melbourne, 2019. https://www.openhousemelbourne.org/draft-city-river-strategy-have-your-say/

Commissioner for Environmental Stability, State of the Yarra and its Parklands, Melbourne: The Commissioner, 2018. https://www.ces.vic.gov.au/reports/state-yarra-and-its-parklands-2018

Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning, Yarra Planning Scheme, Melbourne: The Department, 2019. http://planningschemes.dpcd.vic.gov.au/schemes/yarra

Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning, Lower Yarra River Corridor Study, Melbourne: DELWP, 2016. https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/101027/Lower-Yarra-River-Corridor-Study-Recommendations-Report-Cover- Chapter-1.pdf

Lower Yarra River Management Advisory Committee, Recommendations for Future Funding, Governance and Strategic Considerations of the Management of the Lower Yarra, Melbourne: The Committee, 2018. https://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/739725/Lower-Yarra-River_Future-Funding-Governance-Strategic-Considerations.pdf

Melbourne Water, Yarra River 50-year Community Plan, Melbourne: Melbourne Water, 2019. https://www.melbournewater.com.au/about-us/publications-and-policies/developing-yarra-strategic-plan

Parks Victoria, Lower Yarra River: Recommendations on Future Funding, Governance & Strategic Considerations for Management of the Lower Yarra River, Melbourne: Parks Victoria, 2019. https://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/739725/Lower-Yarra-River_Future-Funding-Governance-Strategic-Considerations.pdf

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Paul Higgins & Tim Burstall, Mainstream Melbourne: the River Yarra on film, Canberra, Screensound Australia, 2004. This collection of rare archival footage provides rich social history of the upper and middle sections of the famous river and its environs, as filmed by professional and amateur cinematographers over the past century. Includes Tim Burstall's award- winning short feature "The Prize" (1960).

Lower Yarra Working Group (LYWG) in conjunction with R. G. Harvey Pty Ltd, Yarra River: use and development guidelines (Docklands to Punt Road), Melbourne: LYWG, 1991.

Melbourne Water, Yarra River 50-Year Community Vision, Melbourne: Melbourne Water, 2018. https://www.water.vic.gov.au/waterways-and-catchments/protecting-the-yarra/50-year-community-vision

Melbourne Water, Yarra Planning Scheme – Significant Landscape Overlay Yarra (Birrarung) River Corridor Environs, Melbourne: Melbourne Water, 2019

Kristin Otto, Yarra: a diverting history of Melbourne's murky river, Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2005.

Screensound Australia, The History of Melbourne’s Yarra River, Melbourne(?): Screensound Australia, [2012?]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R11MpMvleO0

Victorian Government, Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017 No. 49 of 2017, Melbourne: Victorian Government, 2017.

Bolte Precinct

City of Melbourne, City of Melbourne Waterways Operations Concept Plan: Bolte Precinct West April 2017, Melbourne: City of Melbourne, 2017

Development Victoria, Waterways Operation Concept –Bolte Precinct West, Melbourne: Development Victoria, 2017.

Development Victoria, Bolte Precinct West – Addendum to Yarra’s Edge Bolte Precinct Development Plan, Melbourne: Development Victoria, 2018.

Bridges on the Yarra

Institution of Engineers, Australia. Victoria Division, Melbourne Yarra Bridges, Parkville Vic: Victoria Division of the Institution of Engineers, 1984.

Roads Corporation of Victoria, Yarra River bridges, Melbourne; Roads Corporation of Victoria, 1989.

Dacre Smyth, The bridges of the Yarra: a book of paintings, poetry and prose, Toorak Vic, D. Smyth, 1979.

Channel Deepening

Parsons Brinckerhoff Pty Limited, Channel deepening project EES [Environmental Effects Study]: Final inception report, Melbourne: Parsons Brinckerhoff, 2003.

Melbourne Port Corporation, Channel deepening project: deep reef impact assessment briefing, Melbourne: Port of Melbourne Corporation, 2006

Customs House

Department of Works, Melbourne Old Customs House, Melbourne: Department of Works, 1966.

Ivar Nelsen, Patrick Miller & Terry Sawyer, Conservation plan: former Customs House, 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Vic, prepared for Australian Property Group by Australian Construction Services, Melbourne: Australian Construction Services, 1992.

Docklands

Phillip Bentley and David Dunstan, The Hub of Victoria: a History of Melbourne Docklands, Melbourne: Docklands Authority, 1996.

City of Melbourne, Docklands Waterways Strategic Plan 2009-2018, Melbourne: City of Melbourne, 2009. 3

City of Melbourne Parks, Property and Waterways Branch, Strategic Plan of Docklands 2009-2018, Melbourne: City of Melbourne, 2009.

Development Victoria, Docklands Community and Place Plan, Melbourne: Development Victoria, 2012. www.development.vic.gov.au/projects/docklands/publications

Docklands Authority, Seadog tales and maritime yarns: Melbourne Docklands history walk, Melbourne: Docklands Authority, 2002.

Docklands Melbourne, Docklands Melbourne Strategic Plan 2009 – 2018, Melbourne: Docklands Melbourne, 2009. https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/docklands-waterways-strategy-2009-18.pdf

Places Victoria, Access Docklands – a Strategy for the Docklands Transport Network, Melbourne, 2013. https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/access-docklands-strategy.pdf

Stratcorp Consulting, Docklands Melbourne Strategic Plan, Melbourne: Stratcorp, 2009.

Dry Docks

Arthur E. Woodley, Duke's and Orr's Dry Dock: Polly Woodside's historic home, Melbourne: Melbourne Maritime Museum, National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1985.

Fishermans Bend

Context Consultants, Fisherman’s Bend Social History – A Way Through, Melbourne: Context Consultants, 2017.

City of Melbourne & Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Fishermans Bend Recast Vision, Melbourne: City of Melbourne and DEWLP, 2016. https://www.fishermansbend.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/31365/Final_Vision_web_version.pdf

Context Pty Ltd, Social History Study Report and Resource Guide, October 2017, Melbourne: DELWP, 2017. https://www.fishermansbend.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/31584/Social-History-A-Resource-Guide-FINAL-August-2017.pdf

Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Fishermans Bend Framework, Melbourne: The Department, 2018. A plan for parks, schools, roads, transport and community facilities and services to ensure liveability as the precinct grows over the next 30 years. The Framework is supported by a suite of evidence-based research reports, strategies and plans and its development benefited from more than 12 months of engagement with community and other stakeholders. Available at www.fishermansbend.vic.gov.au/framework.

Fishermans Bend Taskforce, Fishermans Bend Community Infrastructure Plan, Melbourne: DELWP, 2017. https://www.fishermansbend.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/31671/Community-Infrastructure-Plan_-FB-Taskforce_Sep-2017.pdf

GTA Consultants, Fishermans Bend Planning Review Panel Integrated Transport Plan Peer Review Expert Witness Statement, Melbourne: GTA Consultants, 2018. https://www.fishermansbend.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/33139/Fishermans-Bend-Expert-Report-Strategic-Transport-ITP-Peer- Review-John-Kiriakidis.pdf

Allan Meiers, Fisher Folk of Fishermans Bend, Port Melbourne, Vic.: Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society, 2006.

Geelong

Richard Everist, Geelong & the Bellarine Peninsula, Geelong West Vic: Best Shot! Publications, 2004.

Geography

Gary Presland, The Place for a Village: how nature has shaped the City of Melbourne, Melbourne: Museum Victoria Publishing, 2008.

Harbour Management

Benjamin Hoare, Jubilee history of the Melbourne Harbor Trust: compiled from the original records of the Trust and from the Victorian Hansard, Melbourne: Peacock Brothers, 1927. 4

Harbour Vessels

Robert C. Leek, Lighters and ships converted into floating docks, bathing ships and bethel ships of Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne: Bob Leek & Peter Taylor, 2006

Lighthouses

E.T. Raison, Lighthouses at Port Phillip Heads, Point Lonsdale Vic: Queenscliff Historical Publications, 1997.

Maritime Heritage & History

Brad Gregory Duncan, Maritime infrastructure heritage project stage one : Melbourne region (updated to March 2006), Melbourne: Heritage Victoria, 2006.

J.K. Loney, Tall ships and sailormen: a concise survey of Victoria's early maritime history, Dimboola Vic: J.K. Loney, 1974.

Melbourne Maritime Museum, Maritime heritage booklet, Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Vic), 2004.

John Noble, Port Phillip Panorama: a Maritime History, Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1975.

Port of Melbourne Corporation, Port Heritage trail: linking Melbourne's maritime heritage, Melbourne: The Corporation, between 2004 & 2010. A coloured map showing tourist information with relief shown pictorially.

Maribyrnong River

Jill Barnard, Maribyrnong River heritage trail, Melbourne: Maribyrnong City Council, 1968.

Maribyrnong River Plan Steering Committee, Maribyrnong River plan 1984, Melbourne: Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, 1984

Melbourne Parks and Waterways. Planning and Environmental Services, Maribyrnong River: vision for recreation and tourism development. overview report, Melbourne: Planning and Environmental Services for the Waterways Division, 1996.

Marinas

Brian O'Neill, Evolution of planning policy and practice for small boat harbour construction in Victoria: Port Phillip Bay, 1945- 1986, Clayton Vic: Monash University, 1987.

Maritime Defence

Bob Nicholls, Statesmen and Sailors: Australian Maritime Defence 1870-1920, Sydney: Bob Nicholls, 1995.

Melbourne’s Early Years

C. P. Billot, Melbourne: an annotated bibliography to 1850, Geelong Vic: Rippleside Press, 1970.

Michael Cannon, Old Melbourne town before the gold rush, Main Ridge Vic: Loch Haven Books, 1981.

A.G.L. Shaw, A history of the Port Phillip District: Victoria before separation, Carlton Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1996.

Melbourne Heritage Fleet

Melbourne Heritage Fleet, Melbourne Heritage Fleet – Benefits and Contributions, Melbourne: Heritage Fleet, 2017.

Urban Enterprises, Melbourne Heritage Fleet Feasibility Study and Business Case February 2015, Melbourne: Urban Enterprises, 2015.

Migration 5

Don Charlwood, The Long Farewell: the Perilous Voyages of Settlers under Sail in the Great Migration to Australia, Ringwood Vic: Allen Lane, 1981.

Michael Veitch, Hell Ship: the true story of the Plague Ship Triconderoga, one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, Crows Nest NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2018.

Missions to Seamen & Seafarers Rest Park

Apostleship of the Sea, 100 golden years of Catholics caring for seafarers, 1895-1995: the Apostleship of the Sea and its Stella Maris Centres, Melbourne: The Apostleship of the Sea, [1995?].

RBA Architects and Conservation Consultants Pty Ltd, Mission to Seamen Building, 717 Flinders Street, Melbourne: conservation management plan prepared for Department of Treasury and Finance, St Kilda Vic: RBA Architects and Conservation Consultants Pty Ltd, 2002.

Biosis 2018, Seafarers Rest North Wharf Park, 731-739 Flinders Street, Docklands, Cultural Heritage Management Plan 16265, Report for City of Melbourne, authors Walther E., Nuridin E., Vines G., Biosis Pty Ltd, Port Melbourne.

Moonee Ponds Creek

City of Moonee Valley, Moonee Ponds Creek Strategic Opportunities Plan August 2019, Moonee Ponds Vic, 2019.

Mornington Peninsula

Hunter Rogers, The early history of the Mornington Peninsula, Mornington, Vic: Mornington Leader, 1980. Covers Westernport, Frankston, Geelong & Queenscliff

Museums

Cerberus Preservation Trust, Proposal for a maritime museum for Victoria: to be located on the site at present occupied by Dukes & Orrs Amalgamated Dry Docks Ltd. South Melbourne, Melbourne: The Trust, [1972?].

Maritime Museums Victoria and Maritime Heritage Association of Victoria, Docklands Maritime Centre – Proposal, Melbourne: Maritime Museums Victoria, 2011.

Tracy Watt and Associates, A proposal for the staged development of the Melbourne Maritime Museum, Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1986.

Pilots

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Historic ship Wyuna 'saved' after donors join forces to fund return voyage to Melbourne, Melbourne: ABC News, 2017. Available at: www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-27/money-found-to-save-historic-ship-wyuna/9087782

J. Noble, Port Phillip: Pilots and Defences, Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1973.

Point Nepean

Barrie I. Follows, Defence at Nepean: a history of defence at the Nepean Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, 1802-1997, Sorrento Vic: Nepean Historical Society, 2011.

Peter McConchie, Port Nepean, Melbourne: Peter McConchie, 2006.

Frances O’Neill, Point Nepean: a History, Melbourne: Ministry of Housing and Construction, Victoria, 1988. Parks Victoria, Quarantine Station Audio Tour, Fort Nepean Audio Tour, Around the Park Tour. Available at parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/point-nepean-national-park/things-to-do/take-a-self-guided-audio-tour

Victoria. Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, Point Nepean National Park: management plan, Point Nepean Section: a project funded by the Commonwealth/State Bicentennial Program, Melbourne: Conservation, Forests & Lands, 1989.

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Port of Melbourne

John N. H. Britton, The ports of Victoria: a freight study of commodity movements in the hinterlands of Melbourne, Geelong and Portland, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1964.

Judith Raphael Buckridge, The long and perilous Journey: a history of the Port of Melbourne, Melbourne: Melbourne Books, 2002.

A.A. Geeves & J.A. Saulwick, Port of Melbourne development plan, Melbourne: Melbourne Harbour Trust, [1974?].

Olaf Ruhen, Port of Melbourne, 1835-1976, Stanmore NSW.: Cassell Australia, 1976.

Port of Melbourne Authority, Port of Melbourne, Melbourne: Port of Melbourne Authority, 1990.

Port Phillip Bay

Wilson P. Evans, Through the rip: ships and seamen of old Port Phillip, Adelaide: Rigby, 1977.

Charles Grimes, Port Phillip Survey Map, 1803. In 1802 the Governor of New South Wales, Philip King, instructed his Surveyor-General Charles Grimes to travel from Port Jackson to the Port Phillip Bay area and to explore and survey the area, and report on any suitable sites for settlement. Their ship entered Port Phillip Bay on 20th January 1803. His party found the mouth of the Yarra and proceeded to explore both the Saltwater (Maribyrnong) and the Freshwater (Yarra) Rivers. Grimes explored the Yarra by boat for several miles until he reached Dight's Falls on 8 February 1803. His survey chart is extremely detailed. Available at www.livingmuseum.org.au/download%20pdf/FlemingMap.pdf

Richard Hawkins, Creeks and harbours of Port Phillip: a guide to cruising and fishing, Mt. Martha Vic: Saltwater Publications, 1996.

Colin & Margaret Kerr, Port Phillip Bay, Adelaide: Rigby, 1979.

Parks Victoria, Our Bays our Vision: The Bays and Maritime Initiative Works Melbourne: Parks Victoria, 2009.

Parks Victoria, Victorian Coastal Strategy, Melbourne: Parks Victoria, 2014

Parks Victoria, Coastal Hazard Assessment for Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne: Parks Victoria, ? https://www.marineandcoasts.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/397015/Port-Phillip-Bay-Coastal-Hazard-Assessment- fact-sheet.pdf

Parks Victoria, Port Phillip Bay Environmental Management Plan, Melbourne: Parks Victoria, 2016.

Mike Smith, Richard Hawkins & Val Curtis, Creeks and harbours of Port Phillip: a mariner's companion and a guide to cruising and fishing with a section on 'The bird life of Port Phillip', Torquay Vic: Lawling Press, 2012.

Victorian Government, Marine and Coastal Act 2018 No. 26 of 2018, Melbourne: Victorian Government, 2018. http://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/Domino/Web_Notes/LDMS/PubStatbook.nsf/f932b66241ecf1b7ca256e92000e23be/15E6C A0FC48714D5CA2582B800126926/$FILE/18-026aa%20authorised.pdf

Port Phillip Foreshore

City of Port Phillip, Dredging, draining, dipping and shipping: a history of the foreshore and low-lying lands of the city of Port Phillip, Melbourne: City of Port Phillip, 1996. A catalogue of items in an exhibition covering the early history of the city of Port Phillip, including the heritage of Port Melbourne, South Melbourne, and St Kilda. It includes objects, photographs, works of art and emphema.

Princes and Station Piers

Allom Lovell & Associates, Princes Pier & Gatehouse, Port Melbourne, Victoria: heritage report to the Princes Pier Precinct Committee prepared for City of Port Phillip [by], Conservation Architects, July 2004, Melbourne: Allom Lovell & Assocs., 2004.

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Jill Barnard, Welcome and farewell: the story of Station Pier, Kew Vic: Arcadia in association with Department of Infrastructure, 2004.

Heritage Alliance, Station Pier, Port Melbourne: conservation analysis and management plan, North Melbourne: Heritage Alliance, 2002.

Museum Victoria, Station Pier: gateway to a new life, Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2004. YouTube, Princes Pier Restoration - Full construction timelapse, Development Victoria, 2012. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDG2thpFaNo

YouTube, Port of Melbourne Heritage Reel, Development Victoria, 2012. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Gta5Jllm0. This is a beautiful collection of film celebrating the vital role both Princes and Station Piers in Port Melbourne have played in creating Australia and Victoria's wartime, maritime and multicultural history.

Queenscliff

Barry Hill, The enduring rip: a history of Queenscliff, Carlton Vic: Melbourne University Press, 2004.

Settlement

G.W. Rusden, Discovery, survey and settlement of Port Phillip, Carlton Vic: Queensberry Hill Press, c1985. Reprint of: Original, London: Williams and Norgate, 1872.

Ship & Boat Restoration

Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd, Conservation management plan for the Polly Woodside, Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 2000.

Bob Botterill & others, The restoration of the barque Polly Woodside; The restoration of a 100 ft steam yacht: a methodology: preliminary outline of paper; Building a sail training ship; Sail training: a New Zealand perspective, Nedlands WA: University Extension, 1987. Papers delivered on 15 January 1987, on day two of: Sailing Ships & Sailing People: Seafaring throughout the ages: a joint conference of the Australian Association for Maritime History and the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, held in Perth, Western Australia, 12 to 23 January 1987.

Ship Visits

Robert A. Hart, The Great White Fleet: its voyage around the world, 1907-1909, Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

Cyril Pearl, Rebel Down Under: When the Shenandoah shook Melbourne 1865, Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1970.

Shipwrecks

Ross Anderson, Wrecks on the reef: a guide to the historic shipwrecks at Port Phillip Heads, Melbourne: Heritage Council of Victoria, 1997.

Peter J. Williams & Roderick Serle, Wrecks of Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne: Maritime Historical Productions, 1964.

Southbank

Melbourne City Council, City of Melbourne neighbourhood character study: Southbank '96, Melbourne: Melbourne City Council, 1996.

Melbourne City Council, Southbank and South Wharf from Southbank to Fisherman’s Bend Heritage Review, Melbourne, Melbourne City Council, 2017.

Ministry for Planning and Environment Victoria, Central Melbourne: Southbank: a development strategy, Melbourne: Ministry for Planning and Environment, Victoria, 1986.

Delia Taylor, South Bank Maritime Precinct: Conservation Analysis, Melbourne: Ministry of Housing, 1990.

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Victorian Government, Heritage Tourism and Ecotourism in Victoria: Parliamentary Paper No. 353, September 2014, Melbourne: Victorian Government, 2014.

Victorian Government, Victoria Visitors Economy Strategy 2016, Melbourne: Victorian Government, 2016.

Victoria Harbour (formerly Victoria Port)

City of Melbourne & Places Victoria, Conservation Management Plan Victoria Harbour Docklands June 2012, Melbourne: City of Melbourne & Places Victoria, 2012. https://s3.apsoutheast2.amazonaws.com/hdp.au.prod.app.comparticipate.files/8614/1221/3715/Victoria_Harbour_Conservation_Management _Plan_CMP.pdf

Lovell Chen, Victoria Harbour: Docklands, Conservation Management Plan, Melbourne: Lovell Chen, 2012.

Waterfront

Tas Bull, Life on the Waterfront: an Autobiography, Sydney: Harper Collins, 1998.

Glen Thomas Curry, Assessment of the State of Victoria's Container Terminal Capacity and Required Container Port Infrastructure to Deal with Future Trade Demands, Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2013. A thesis available from the University at http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/18101

Lew Hillier, Meet the ship painters and dockers, St Kilda Vic: L. Hillier, 1981.

Rupert Lockwood, Ship to shore: a history of Melbourne's waterfront and its union struggles, Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1990.

Rupert Lockwood, The Miraculous union: a hundred years of waterfront unionism, Melbourne: Waterside Workers Federation, 1995.

Katharin Lowenstein & Tom Hills, Under the hook: Melbourne waterside workers remembering working lives and class war, 1900-1998, Melbourne: Melbourne Bookworkers, 1998.

Westernport

Adrian J. Martin, History of Westernport and the establishment of Flinders Naval Depot, Melbourne: Spindrift Press, 1927.

Wharves, Jetties and Piers

Jill Barnard, Jetties and piers: a background history of maritime infrastructure in Victoria, Melbourne: Heritage Council of Victoria, 2007.

Williamstown Port

Kinhill, Williamstown: Port of Melbourne development potential, Melbourne: Kinhill, 1974.

Parks Victoria, Williamstown Foreshore Strategic Plan: Stony Creek to Point Gellibrand, Melbourne: Parks Victoria, 2010. https://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/313457/PV_Williamstown-Plan.pdf

Lynne Strahan, At the edge of the centre: a history of Williamstown, North Melbourne: Hargreen Publishing, 1994.

World War Two

Janet Robert Billett, Memories of War: Members of the Naval and Military Club Recall World War II, Melbourne: Naval & Military Club, 2004. Includes interviews with members of the Yachtsmen’s Scheme.

Stephen Carruthers, Japanese Submarine Raiders 1942: A Maritime Mystery, Narrabeen NSW: Casper Publications, 2006.

David Jenkins, Battle Surface! Japan’s Submarine War against Australia 1942-44, Milsons Point NSW: Random House Australia, 1992.