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MARITIME MUSEUMS

Australia

• Australian National Maritime Museum: Darling Harbour, Sydney. The National maritime museum of Australia. Collection includes replica bark Endeavour, HMAS Vampire, HMAS Advance, submarine HMAS Onslow, Krait
• Sydney Heritage Fleet. Sydney. Mission - To acquire, conserve, restore and operate heritage vessels with a significant maritime background; and to acquire and conserve related maritime artefacts for the benefit of all Australians. 
• Australia's Maritime World: An exploration of Australia's and New Zealand's maritime history and today's sea, ship and shore attractions, activities and adventures
• Western Australian Maritime Museum: Fremantle. Provides exhibitions on shipwrecks discovered off the Western Australian coast and Western Australia's Maritime endeavours. Includes submarine HMAS Ovens.
• South Australian Maritime Museum. Port Adelaide. Custodian to one of the oldest nautical collections in Australia, a museum within a museum. Its floating collection  comprises Yelta, the State's last working steam tug, the launch Archie Badenoch built for military use in the 1940s, and the MV Nelcebee, assembled in Port Adelaide in 1883, the third oldest vessel in the Lloyd's Register.
• Whyalla Maritime Museum: Whyalla. Specialises in naval history, BHP shipbuilding industry, maritime heritage and natural history of the upper Spencer Gulf
• The Maritime Museum of Tasmania. Carnegie Building, Hobart. Dedicated to the preservation and presentation of Tasmania's rich maritime heritage for all time.
• Melbourne Maritime Museum:  Melbourne. Afloat in Melbourne's original wooden walled dry dock, Polly Woodside is the main exhibit of the maritime museum. Historically listed 1930s cargo sheds house a rich collection of displays, artefacts, models and photographs.
• Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum. Warrnambool. Recreated maritime village and interpretive centre - hear, see and experience the hardships of those who sailed the high seas.
• Museum of Tropical Queensland.  Townsville. Home to the Pandora exhibit and the State's marine archaeology centre.
• Townsville Maritime Museum: Townsville. The original museum was begun by the Seafarers Association to ensure the safe keeping of local maritime cultural history.
•  Ballina Naval & Maritime Museum:  Ballina.  Home of the Las Balsas raft (1973). "Largest collection of naval and merchant ship models in Australia." Displays of Port of Ballina and local history, a tribute to women in the Navy, interactive displays, naval and merchant memorbilla.
• P & O Heritage Collection. Website focusing on the history of the P & O shipping line, highlighting its collections and providing users with fact sheets for over 2,000 ships owned or operated by P & O, family history research guides and potted histories for a number of subsidiary shipping companies which P & O owned.
• North Stradbroke Island Maritime Museum. Open at Wesley St., Dunwich from 10am to 2pm Wednesdays and Saturdays. For more information. Phone 61 7 3409 9699 (No web site)

Accross The Seas

• Barque Picton Castle
• Baltimore Maritime Museum: Baltimore, MD, USA
• Chatham Historic Dockyard: Chatham, England
• HMCS Haida Naval Museum: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• Hampton Roads Maritime Museum: Norfolk, VA, USA.\
• Imperial War Museum: London, England.
• Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Maritime Museum of British Columbia: Victoria, BC, Canada
• Maritime Museums in Britain and Ireland - alphabetical listing
• The Museum Small Craft Association (USA). A group involved in the study and preservation of traditional small craft, representing a diversity of professions, including museum professionals, historians, archaeologists, and academics. All members share a common interest in boat conservation and restoration, skills preservation, boat documentation, small craft history and interpretation, and academic research
• Mystic Seaport --Mystic CT, sight of the 1997 Wooden Boat Show
• The National Maritime Museum Association. A not-for-profit organization dedicated to maritime preservation and education in order to enhance public understanding,  appreciation, & enjoyment of  the USA's national maritime heritage.  Site has some good technical papers on wooden boat documentation and presentation presented at the 1997 International Preservation Conference
• National Maritime Museum: Greenwich, London
• Naval and Maritime Museums List - USA
• Netherlands maritime Museum: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• New Zealand National Maritime Museum: Auckland, NZ
• Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum: Charleston, SC, USA.
• Royal Naval Museum: Portsmouth, England
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park: San Francisco, CA, USA.
• San Diego Maritime Museum: San Diego, USA
• Vancouver Maritime Museum: Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Wisconsin Maritime Museum: Manitowoc, WI, USA
• Yokohama Maritime Museum
• Robert Smith's Index to Maritime Museum Internet Resources

Historic Ships and Replicas

• Aorere -- A beautiful 1898 Length/Sail Area rule cutter under restoration in WA
• Duyfken, the West Australian built replica of the first reported European ship to chart Australia's coastline.
• HM Bark Endeavour Another West Australian replica, built by many of the crew who went on to build the Duyfken.
• HMS Belfast: World War 2 cruiser. London, England.
• HMS Victory: World's oldest commissioned warship, Portsmouth, England.

MARITIME ASSOCIATIONS

Australian

• Royal Marines Association Queensland (RMAQ). Committed to providing a harmonious and supportive association for former and serving Royal Marines to meet.
• Australia's Maritime World, a portal to various Australian maritime web sites.
• The Classic Yacht Association of Australia.  Membership of the Classic Yacht Association of Australia is open to all who have an interest in the preservation, restoration and sailing of classic yachts.
• Clean Up Australia
• Couta Boat Club - CoutaNet - Your online opportunity to keep up to date with everything Couta
• Australia's Maritime World: Collection of links to Australia's and New Zealand's maritime history and today's sea, ship and shore attractions, activities and adventures
• Naval Association of Australia, Queensland Section
• Queensland Yachting Association.
• Wooden Boat Association

Overseas

• The Museum Small Craft Association (USA). A group involved in the study and preservation of traditional small craft, representing a diversity of professions, including museum professionals, historians, archaeologists, and academics. All members share a common interest in boat conservation and restoration, skills preservation, boat documentation, small craft history and interpretation, and academic research
• Scuzbums. aka SCBMS  Southern California Small Boat Messabout Society (USA).   A like-minded group of small boat enthusiasts across the Pacific. Email the ScuzMum Annie Kolls, donator of the skiff Fury, at ScuzBum@aol.com
• The Small Wooden Boat Association of Nova Scotia Canada. Formed in 1994 to enable boating enthusiasts to meet and share information and ideas about small wooden boats.
• Swedish West Coast Square Metre Class Assoc. In Sweden not surprisingly.
• Wooden Boat Association of Texas. That's Texas USA, not Texas QLD.  Mostly mahogany runabouts.
• The Wooden Boat Foundation     A Maritime Educational Centre in  Port Townsend, Washington Sate USA
• Woodies on the Web. An Online Resource for the Classic Powerboat Enthusiast (USA)

MARITIME PUBLICATIONS

• Australian Amateur Boatbuilder, the information source for Australasia's amateur boat builders
• Boat Books Suppliers of shiploads of nautical books including: fiction, humour, how to build, design, survey, sail, repair or dream about all sorts of boats/yachts/ships. If you've seen it in Wooden/Classic Boat magazines, it's probably on the shelf. They also have digital and paper charts (with updating service), instruments and software.
• Boating Books & Charts Australia - Online. Boat Books' (Melbourne) web page.
• BoatPoint.  Trade-A-Boats on-line search index.
• Classic Boat Magazine. A magazine for classic sail, rowing and power boats of any construction.
• Duckworks Magazine. An ezine for amateur boat builders.  Links to lots of interesting projects (although some fall into the "but it has lots of headroom" category).
• Maritime Books - Jean Louis Boglio (Master Mariner).  A great source for new, second-hand and out-of-print books, with very good turn-around time.
• Offshore Yachting Magazine - On-Line magazine of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.
• Ships in Scale Magazine's Information Seaway.  A good modelling FAQ.
• Water Craft a bi-monthly magazine produced by Pete Greenfield, previously creator of Classic Boat and The Boatman. A good mix of deign, technical and dreaming articles, similar to WoodenBoat 
• Wooden Boat Magazine. Lots of US and international links as well.  The standard by which all other classic/wooden boat publications are judged.  A great website with an online/downloadable index of issues, discussion groups, bookshop, boatshop etc.  The place to cruise, rather than surf, the web, checking out all the little inlets and backwaters.
• Professional BoatBuilder Magazine --The Trade Magazine for Those Working in Design, Construction, and Repair

MARITIME AND BOATBUILDING SCHOOLS

• Brisbane TAFE Certificate III in Boatbuilding. Apprenticeship training to develop a broad range of practical skills applicable to the boatbuilding industry
• Great Southern Regional College - Albany - Western Australia. Certificate IV in Wooden Boatbuilding. A 1-year fully accredited and Austudy approved course in traditional wooden boat building.
• Shipwright's Point School of Wooden Boat Building in Franklin, Tasmania, 45 kilometres south-west of Hobart on the banks of the Huon River.  The School aims to preserve the traditional boatbuilding knowledge and skills of the Huon region, develop them in the context of contemporary opportunities and pass them on to a new generation of students.
• Duck Flat Wooden Boats, Adelaide South Australia.  A group of people who run a wooden boat business learning, exchange, teaching programmes, clothing design, materials, supply, world wide plans agency and many other things we haven't yet thought of.
• Sydney Wooden Boat School - Mortlake, Sydney Ph (02) 9660 7884 Fax (02) 9560 6104
• Westlawn Inst. of Marine Technology (USA) External courses in yacht design.
• WoodenBoat School (USA)

GENERAL

Queensland Links

• South Bank Park Lands Beautiful parklands next the the Qld Maritime Museum
• South Bank - always Creating The heart of Brisbane's culture, entertainment, recreation and education, Brisbane's South Bank enjoys one of Brisbane's best locations and is unlike any other lifestyle precinct in the world.

Queensland History

• Brisbane's Living Heritage - a Discovery Guide
• The HMQS Gayundah page. Back when Queensland had her own navy.