Maritime History's research

Department of Fisheries files held at the State Records Office
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This page links to a resource developed by the Maritime History department which lists all records from the Department of Fisheries that are currently held at the State Records Office. This list can be used for research purposes, and to browse by topic and subject.

The resource is available as either a CSV file, Excel file, or a web page table:
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Maritime History Podcasts
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Batavia Lecture Series 2010 - Nelson, Napoleon and Wellington: How three men shaped the destiny of Europe

NOTE: This lecture was delivered by a guest speaker to the Museum, Michael Sargeant (Chairman, Nelson Society of Australia Inc.)

Friday 22 October 2010 - Western Australian Museum

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Marine History - peer-reviewed publications
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2006

May, S. (2006). Australia’s Antarctic (Southern Ocean) Fisheries: A Case Study of the Development of Trans-national Capitalism. International Journal of Maritime History 17(2): 323-350.

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Maritime history boats and watercraft
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The Museum’s Watercraft Collection comprises of around eighty watercraft, ranging from a freezer lid that was used as a life raft to an Oberon submarine, HMAS Ovens.

The collection is one of the largest in Australia and has been loosely classified into four main collecting areas:
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Maritime History Immigration and Migration Collection
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The Maritime History department maintains an extensive Immigration Collection that documents maritime immigration into Western Australia.

This collection includes artefacts such as: documents, on board images, clothes, shipboard newsletters, posters and postcards of ports visited during the voyage, crossing the line certificates, menus, tableware, table and bathroom linen, memorabilia, personal souvenirs, commercially produced souvenirs, cabin luggage, trunks and suitcases and shipboard games.
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Maritime history oral histories
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The Maritime History department focuses on Western Australian maritime history within the context of the Indian Ocean. The Maritime History department’s Oral History Collection holds over two hundred interviews with people who are directly associated with the department’s collections, or who are associated with a specific area of research undertaken for publication or exhibitions.

Maritime History staff mostly conduct these interviews, however, sometimes volunteers from relevant fields perform the interviews on behalf of the Museum.
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Marine engine, science and technology collection
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The Marine Engine, Science and Technology Collection comprises of marine steam machinery, pumps and generators used on ships that operated off Western Australia’s coast.

The collection includes combustion engines made in Western Australia, and Australian engines with a strong Western Australian provenance. The Maritime History department also collects imported marine engines that have a strong Western Australian marine history or represent major trends in the history and development of marine engineering in this State.
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Maritime history artworks
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The Maritime History Art Collection comprises of paintings, etchings, watercolours and other art works representing maritime scenes and subjects, particularly ship portraits, that relate to Western Australian maritime history, or Western Australian maritime history in the context of the Indian Ocean.
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Maritime History's research

Batavia Lecture Series 2010 - Nelson, Napoleon and Wellington: How three men shaped the destiny of Europe