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our maritime history & present day news. No. 3 Autumn 2003. cost: gold coin donation The Mariners’ Church c1910. Tasmaniana Library, State Library of Tasmania in this issue The Tasmanian Viking: Jorgen Jorgenson White House Ferries Cooking with Lucky Pierre Wooden Boat Festival Report The Bob Jane Award Modellers Exhibition Report Maria Island Challenge Race Errol Flynn Society School’s In Letters to the editor, quiz and more Ubique at the Wooden Boat Festival Maritime Museum of Tasmania CARNEGIE BUILDING Cnr Davey & Argyle Sts. 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 Open Daily (except for Good Friday & Christmas Day) 9am - 5pm Editor: Bob Petrass Phone 6225 1004 Design & production: Ricoh Studio Phone 6223 4311 [email protected] Museum photography: Ricoh Studio Huia Historic perspective view by CF Beautemps-Beaupre of South-eastern Tasmania looking west from 1000m above Tasman Peninsula. From D’Entrecasteaux Atlas (courtesy Philip Fowler) editorial Many thanks to all those readers who took the trouble to compliment us on the Summer Edition of our newsletter. They included messages from Victoria, New South Wales and Maatsuyker Island. We will do our best to maintain this high standard in future publications sad loss of respected and have no doubt we can do so if our members continue to be involved by providing us members with such varied and interesting articles and photographs. It is with deep regret that we Last issue we told you of our AIMS and NEEDS and are delighted to report our needs are record the passing of two of our diminishing with: most respected members, Ted Davis and Terry Gillies. 1. Further advertisers coming to the party and recognising the value of our publication and sponsorship (welcome aboard K&D Warehouse and our newest sponsor Richard Both men gave great service Fader – Tasmanian Shipping Supplies). as volunteers, our sincerest sympathies go to their families. 2. Members continuing to provide items of interest, …. but we need more. There are sure to be others still “thinking about it” so act now as new blood is always welcome. May they rest in peace. (Just ask any vampire). 3. Most pleasing of all was the offer from members Larissa Deck and Charles and Helen Scarafiotti to assist Fran Hall with the typing of articles for publication. Finally, congratulations to Neville Payne on organising a most enjoyable after work function for volunteers in the Carnegie building on 4th April. It was particularly pleasing to see our president Joe Cannon up and about after his recent operations. A good time was had by all, nobody listing to port or starboard as they left the building. At least not as far as I could tell ….. Bob Petrass (editor) president’s message Please remember to book in at the Museum by phone, mail, email or in person, on or before Wednesday 18th June for the Annual Dinner, to be held on Wednesday 2nd July at 7pm for 7.30 pm at the Derwent Sailing Squadron Clubhouse. It will be a very pleasant evening, with BOB JANE AWARD noted Marine Artist, Bill Mearns as after-dinner speaker. A three-course meal with choices for each course, plus a complimentary pre-dinner drink is economically priced at $40. Last issue we did a feature item Members are asked to organise a four-couple table booking if possible, non-member friends on our splendid Gift Shop. Our 4 are welcome (particularly if it may encourage them to later join as Members). Of course year old model Benjamin “Little individual bookings are also very welcome. Buddha” Denduang did a great job promoting it and won the Over 50,000 of the statewide Maritime Tourism Trail Brochures have been printed and hearts of many readers, however distributed. This was attained with the generous help and advice of our previous Chairman, he didn’t win the award for his Malcolm Wells and his secretary, Dorothy Langdon. It is an attractive brochure and we are mini BMW. This went to the man confident of it being very effective. responsible for his unTYREing volunteer work in running the City Council approval has been received for the installation of the stainless steel sink in the shop, ROLPH OMANT. volunteer’s lounge. This will be installed without further delay. Council have also approved the placing of the Whistler anchor outside the Museum building, facing Argyle Street, and its Rolph’s contribution to the early removal from the grounds at Secheron House has been arranged. museum is outstanding and we congratulate him as a very worthy The returns from members strongly favoured the TMAG option in seeking professional winner of this award. administrative help. Bill Bleathman, who is Director of the TMAG and Government nominee on our Management Committee is presenting this proposal to the Premier’s Department. Joe Cannon about the front cover THE MARINERS’ CHURCH: 1863 - 2003 Our photograph shows the old Mariners’ Church, since rebuilt as St Peter’s, Sandy Bay, on its original site, now occupied by the Hobart Ports Corporation (former Marine Board) building. The church celebrates its 140th anniversary this year. Alongside the church and fronting on Franklin wharf is an old Customs building, with Customs sheds behind. By this date, Federation had taken over the former state customs service. The handsome Franklin Wharf “island” building, still standing, housed the Marine Board offices, the offices of the Union Steamship Company and the offices of Burgess Bros, merchants. On the corner of Morrison and Argyle Streets is the former Howards Hotel, a substantial hostelry capable of accommodating passengers from the vigorous inter-state steamship trade. Horses and carts can be seen on the wharf, and in the immediate vicinity of the vessel berthed at the pier, two buildings artistically designed as urinals. Readers will spot other items of historic interest. Audrey Hudspeth phone calls to the editor new members Somebody gave me a copy of your Maritime Times Summer Edition. I enjoyed reading it so We welcome the following new much I couldn’t put it down, until I had read it all. Loved the photos too. Could you please members to our association: put me on your subscribers list for future copies and send me previous ones. Patricia Kuffer (Patterson Lakes Vic.) Larissa Deck Doone Kennedy Great magazine, top pics, even the advertisements were interesting. Keep up Allister Martin the good work. Bill Foster Laurie Bahr ( Sandy Bay) Geoff Lilley Colin Rose Will Hallinan Congratulations on the excellent newsletter. Peter Malone Scott Dunn (Tasmanian Water Police) A. L. Scobie John Spooner The newsletter is great and I just loved the Little Boy on the cover. My friends Alan Whittaker loved it too. Margaret Morgan (South Frankston Vic) We encourage all members to give their friends a read of our Please send me another copy of your summer newsletter. I forwarded the newsletter and hope they will copy I had to a friend overseas. Also could I have a copy of the next edition accept our invitation to join us as as I still have a few months to go here at the lighthouse. new members in the near future. Wendt Jelinek (Maatsuyker Island) Also we look forward to meeting our new members and their No problems Wendy, but I expect a story from you in return. Ed. friends at our annual dinner on Wednesday 2nd July. did you know? When a giraffe is born it falls Recently 2 rare creatures were found dead on Carlton Beach, south-east of Hobart. The from a height of six feet. 150kg sub-adult male and female pygmy sperm whales were seen rolling in the surf but were dead by the time Parks and Wildlife staff arrived at the scene. DNA samples were In England, the speaker of the taken for an international bank to contribute to global understanding of these little known house is not permitted to speak. denizens of the deep. They have been known to frequent Tasmanian waters only 3 times in the past 100 years. By licking a stamp, you consume one tenth of a calorie. A team of scientists left Hobart recently aboard the French ship “Marion Dufresne” on a $1 million federally-funded voyage. They intend to chart the seabed from the west coast of Tasmania to Fremantle W.A. One area of particular interest is the largely unexplored deep- sea Murray canyon system, about 60km south of Kangaroo Island. What weird and wonderful secrets will Australia’s own “Grand Canyon” yield?? Did you know that Italian navigator, 50 year old Amerigo Vespucci, explored the coast of Venezuela and his name AMERIGO was given to the two continents through the erroneous belief that he had discovered the mainland the year before Christopher Columbas. If not for this error would America now be known as CHRISTOPHERA?? Footnote:- The sailing ship “Amerigo Vespucci” was launched in Italy in 1931. It is currently on an 18 month world tour as the Italian Navy’s sail training ship with a crew consisting of 19 officers,73 petty officers and 218 sailors. After attending the America’s Cup in New Zealand, they visited Melbourne and are due home in Italy on October18. When they sail around the world on this ship ..is that AMERIGOROUND (Ed.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir Just a few words with a breeze from my Danish Maritime World. I visited Hobart on my own for three days in January where I had walked around Sullivans Cove and the docks. On my last day I brought myself to visit your Museum.