Sydney Maritime Museum - Oral History Collection, 1983-1992

MLOH 134

fonds

1983- 12 October 1992

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

412476

Digitised

105 audiocassettes (87 hr., 3 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

The Sydney Maritime Museum was founded in 1965 by a group of individuals interested in restoring and preserving the 1902 Vice Regal steam yacht 'Lady Hopetoun'. The Museum was known originally as the Lady Hopetoun & Port Jackson Marine Steam Museum.

The Sydney Maritime Museum is a community based non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of Australia's maritime heritage. The Museum's collection includes maritime artifacts, historical photographs, books and maritime records along with a number of vintage vessels. Vessels in the Museum's collection include: 'James Craig', an iron barque built in 1874; 'Kanangra', a Sydney Harbour ferry built in 1912; 'Gretel II', a 12 metre yacht which competed in the America's Cup Race; 'Boomerang', an Edwardian schooner built in 1903; 'Protex', a motor launch built in the 1920s; 'John Oxley', a pilot steamer built in 1927; and 'Yendys', an 18 foot skiff built in the 1920s.

The Sydney Maritime Museum membership includes many dedicated volunteers who restore, operate and maintain the fleet of vintage vessels using traditional methods and skills.

Volunteer members of the Sydney Maritime Museum conducted an Oral History Project from 1983 onward. Margaret Reid, a volunteer, conducted the first series of interviews which she also transcribed. Margaret Reid conducted interviews with men and women involved in maritime industries and occupations and particularly sought out those who had some involvement with vessels in the Museum's vintage fleet.

Item 1: James Graeme interview by Vincent Rowe
Item 2: Kylie Tennant interview by Vincent Rowe
Item 3: Colin Goss interview by Mori Flapan
Item 4: Marjorie Macrae and Margaret Brown interview by Margaret Reid
Item 5: T. A. (George) Hunter interview by Vincent Rowe
Item 6: Murray Geeves interview by Mori Flapan
Item 7: Lady Jessie Richmond interview on the Craig Shipping Line
Item 8: Ron Thiele interview by Margaret Reid
Item 9: John Maitland-Thomson interview by Vincent Rowe
Item 10: Alvin Purdon interview by Margaret Reid
Item 11: Milford Alfred Loraway interview by Margaret Reid
Item 12: George Kerr interview by Barry Groom
Item 13: Bob Hewitt interview by Margaret Reid
Item 14: John West interview by Vincent Rowe
Item 15: Albert Matthews interview by Vincent Rowe
Item 16: Brian Hill and Geoff Winter interview by Mori Flapan and Peter Jones
Item 17: Ms Dennis Adams interview by Margaret Reid
Item 18: Mr Leonardi interview
Item 19: George McGoogan interview by Barry Groom
Item 20: Norman J. Wright interview by Barry Groom
Item 21: George Robert Lundie interview by Barry Groom
Item 22: Victor Loscocco interview by Margaret Reid
Item 23: Leslie Brooks interview by Margaret Reid
Item 24: Maurice Mulcahy interview by Margaret Reid
Item 25: Carl Eric Mann interview by Margaret Reid
Item 26: Owen Allan interview by Margaret Reid
Item 27: Alexina Greig interview by Margaret Reid
Item 28: Jack Warren interview by Margaret Reid
Item 29: Frank Broder interview by Margaret Reid
Item 30: Leslie Reynolds interview by Margaret Reid
Item 31: Owen John Edwards interview by Margaret Reid
Item 32: John Sargeant interview by Margaret Reid
Item 33: Alfred Settree interviewed by Margaret Reid and Geoff Winter
Item 34: Ron Wayling interview by Margaret Reid
Item 35: Arthur Hocroft interview by Margaret Reid
Item 36: Jim Tough interview by Vincent Rowe
Item 37: Max Phillips interview by Marcia Bass
Item 38: Bert Weston interview by Margaret Reid
Item 39: David Munro interview by Margaret Reid
Item 40: Douglas Swanson interview by Margaret Reid
Item 41: Sir Alexis Albert interview by Elizabeth Harris and Margaret Reid
Item 42: Enid Berntsen interview by Margaret Reid
Item 43: Stanley Jeavons interview by Margaret Reid
Item 44: Patrick Sweetensen interview by Margaret Reid
Item 45: Bill Langlois interview by Marcia Bass
Item 46: Charles Sparrow interview by Judy Lee
Item 47: Dennis Allan McGoogan interview by Judy Lee
Item 48: John Edward Martin interview by Judy Lee
Item 49: John B. Winning, Snr interview by Judy Lee
Item 50: Shirley Reid interview by Judy Lee
Item 51: William L. Fesq interview by Judy Lee
Item 52: Elizabeth Datson interview by Margaret Reid
Item 53: Edward C. Martin interview by Margaret Reid
Item 54: W. Harry Geary interview by Margaret Reid
Item 55: Carl Halvorsen interview by Judy Lee
Item 56: Pam Brinsmead interview by Judy Lee
Item 57: C. Hugh C. Powell interview by Margaret Reid
Item 58: Lillian and Brian Mabey interview by Margaret Reid
Item 59: Captain Edward Liley interview by Margaret Reid and Mori Flapan

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Logs and transcripts of tapes are available
Papers accompany tapes.
Copy available at CY MLOH 134/1-105