The Collection

Communication at Sea

Navigation & Mapping

Inventions & Innovations

Lighthouses

The Sea & Sailing Ship
Adventures

Sullivans Cove 1804

Transport, Passengers &
Cargo

Whales and Whaling, Seals and Sealing

Shipwrecks

Explores:

Differences in origins and destinations; reasons for people travelling by sea; trade by sea and types of cargo. The focus is change over time between the 1800's and today. 

Activities include:

Guided Tour of the Docks / Photo Search

Hobart's Port - Changes Over Time

Video:

Trading out of Hobart - an oral history on film (Maritime Museum of Tasmania)

Links:

Build a Model Tall Ship (templates & all instructions included)

Cargoes (explains why transport by sea continues to expand)

Dutch East India Company (trade in 1600's)

East India Company (images from the National Maritime Museum London)

Great Ocean Liners (individual ship histories 1830's to 1960's, maritime trivia, facts & figures)

Life on Board a Cargo Ship (an internet sampler on this topic)

Lost Liners (a tour of greatest lost liners, with a teacher resource section)

LostLiners - Honoring the Gold Age of Ocean Travel (extensive collection detailing many ships including Queen Mary & Titanic)

Marine Institute (choose from 24 topics designed for teachers & students)

Maritime Information Gateway (great starting point for researching all things maritime!)

May Queen (Tasmanian tall trading vessel built at Franklin)

Monsters of the Sea (features the great ocean liners; includes a large photo archive)

Print a Map (from National Geographic - choose the world or just part to use with your class)

Shipping List for Hobart (current)

Ships of State: the Great Atlantic Liners (includes their art, history & the men who made them great)

Spices & the Spice Islands (trade in 1600's)

Tasmanian Images 1 (search State Library for ports, ships etc.)

Tasmanian Images 2 (search Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery)

Trade and Empire (Britain 1750-1900 inc. teachers' notes, online & downloadable activities)

Voyaging through Strange Seas (from the National Library of Australia - compares the experiences and voyages of four women who travelled in the Pacific between 1768 to 1851)

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