Scrapbook with newspaper clippings
Date1970-1975
Object numberANMS0180[014]
NameScrapbook
MediumPaper
DimensionsOverall (Closed): 470 x 515 x 25 mm,
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum Collection
DescriptionScrapbook with newspaper clippings, mostly of articles related to shipping during the first half of the 1970's. Some of the ship clippings that can be identified from the newspaper clippings are FRANCE, NIEUW HOLLAND, ROYAL VIKING SKY, PATRIS, SS UNITED STATES, ORONSAY, SS MONTEREY, ALKIMOS, PACIFIC STAR, TRAVANCORE, DUKW, TROPIC QUEEN, MONTE BELLOS, CLAIRE CROUCH, PATRIS, CHARLES TODD, GREAT BRITAIN II, EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN EMBLEM, PACIFIC PRINCESS, DERWENT HUNTER, APOLLO, BALLYHOO, GOLDEN PLOVER, HMAS ENCOUNTER, KRAIT, SIR BEDIVERE, OSCAR W, KIRITI, OCEAN ENDEAVOUR, REGIONAL ENDEAVOUR, BROSEA, ORIANA.
The newspaper clippings are related to the FRANCE, the world’s longest luxury liner arriving in Sydney in 1974, converting ships into accommodation and housing, maiden voyages, last trips, accidents, people stranded in Darwin due to cyclone Tracy in 1975, London Financial Times round the world clipper race, crisis in the South Australian fishing industry 1975, whaling, Elio Cherini runaway skipper, Southern Cross International Ocean Racing 1975, KRAIT raid Operation Jaywick, oil rigging, Environmental cases 1975, SHENANDOAH Incident, Transportation Workers Union fight 1975, ORIANA holiday advertisements.
