Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian maritime history

The WikiProject on Australian maritime history is a project to organise and improve of articles on the maritime history of Australia and nearby regions.



Goals

 * To provide guidelines and suggestions for new and existing articles that describe aspects of Australian maritime history.
 * To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australian maritime history by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles related to the subject.
 * To address POV issues and tentative edits in articles within the scope of the project.
 * To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to the maritime history of Australia in Wikipedia.
 * To co-operate and collaborate with the Australian history project

Scope
The project generally considers any article related to the prehistory, and history or maritime affairs of Oceania and Australasia to be within its scope.

As a related project to WikiProject Australian history - to consolidate and link to articles that relate to maritime affairs within Australian history. It would be in tandem in with the Australian history project - but would also co-ordinate the creation of systematic appraisals of coastal shipping, ports, ships and conditions over the Australian history time range.

Geographical boundaries
The boundaries of the legal limits of the Australian seabed and continental shelf control define one aspect of 'Australian Waters' - however this project also extends to the Indonesian Archipelago, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean and Pacific Ocean - each of these regions/oceans and their conditions have governed Australian maritime history.

Included Australian states and territories
With the start up of Australian state Wikiprojects - maritime history project relationship is as a related project.

Project development strategy

 * To take consideration of the issues raised at WikiProject Council/Guide
 * Establish Project page in correct format
 * Determine similar Projects from other countries
 * Establish acceptance of the range of articles, and checking Australian articles for tie-ins
 * Determine a strategy for categorising or listing existing articles
 * Establish a notability criteria for: Voyages, Ships, Ports

Standards and notability

 * Considerable emphasis in this project will be made in referencing and citation usage at the commencement of articles - and hopefully minimal red link usage, to sustain high standards.
 * Refer to WikiProject History for pre-existing standards
 * In general the articles (or lists) are for the whole of Australia - where the information is state or region specific - the hierarchy is first state, then region within the state.
 * Article assessment is available through - WikiProject Australia/Assessment

Notability criteria
In order to maintain a reasonable level of notability for Australian maritime history articles, the minimum inclusion criteria is proposed as follows:

Notability requirements
As part of Wikipedia, our project is required to abide by the notability guideline that apply to all articles. This section does not overrule or

The basic tenent is:

In regards to the notability of people there is an additional criteria (WP:ATHLETE) that states that "people who have competed at the fully professional level of a sport" are "generally notable". However, failure to meet this additional criteria is not conclusive proof that a subject should not be included; conversely, meeting one or more does not guarantee that a subject should be included. Should a person fail to meet this additional criteria, they may still be notable under Notability.

Article creation
Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Australian maritime history articles.

They are identfied by using the maritime=yes parameter within the WP Australia template.


 * Usage:

Images
A gallery of related images is kept at WikiProject Australian maritime history/Images. Feel free to expand.

Parent projects

 * WikiProject History
 * WikiProject Australia

Associated Australian projects and task forces

 * WikiProject Australian history
 * WikiProject Australian historic places


 * WikiProject Military history/Australian military history task force


 * WikiProject Australian Transport

Associated projects

 * WikiProject Ships


 * WikiProject Shipwrecks
 * WikiProject Lighthouses
 * WikiProject Maritime Trades

Linked project

 * Australian history/Exploration

Related projects

 * WikiProject Tasmania
 * WikiProject Victoria
 * WikiProject Western Australia

Related projects in other countries or locations

 * WikiProject Irish Maritime
 * WikiProject Antarctica

Recently created/updated articles
The following Australian maritime history related articles have been recently created or updated:


 * ADV Cape Schanck – Created 16 June 2024 – Calistemon (talk) 10:38, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * ADV Cape Solander – Created 15 June 2024 – Calistemon (talk) 10:38, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Updated Australian Paddle Steamer - Added Standalone listing for Murray River Queen, updated formatting and links.Bishop of Ephesus (talk) 03:55, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Kangaroo Island SeaLink - Added section about new KI vessels and updated details regarding 2021 contract award Bishop of Ephesus(talk) 09:52, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * MV Victorian Reliance, MV Tasmanian Achiever and MV Tasmanian Achiever II - created pages. Please improve. DigitalPanda (talk) 00:35, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * List of Australian shipyards Created page (requested by this group) by adapting and editing other lists. Please improve it. Bogong (talk) 14:41, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Whaling in Australia (Histragic (talk) 07:46, 4 May 2018 (UTC))
 * Lady Kinnaird (1877) - 3 December 2014 - Cowdy001 (talk) 20:48, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * BHP Shipping - 30 January 2014 - Danimations (talk) 10:35, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Whyalla Steelworks includes Whyalla Shipyards & complete list of vessels built - 30 January 2014 - Danimations (talk) 10:35, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Water Witch (1835) - 2 January 2014 - Cowdy001 (talk) 05:07, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Hertford (1920) - 2 November 2013 - Cowdy001 (talk) 00:40, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Southern Cross (1891 Melanesian Mission ship) - 20 February 2013‎ - User:Cowdy001 06:31, 20 February 2013‎ (UTC)
 * HMS Investigator (1798) Anchors - 10 September 2012‎ - User:Cowdy001 22:41, 10 September 2012‎ (UTC)
 * Nautical Archaeology Association of South Australia - 11 June 2012 - User:Cowdy001  09:11, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Society for Underwater Historical Research - 11 June 2012 - User:Cowdy001  09:21, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Otter (ship) - 2 August 2010 - AWHS (talk) 11:47, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ocean (convict transport ship) - 21 July 2010 - AWHS (talk) 03:04, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Surry (ship) - 28 June 2010 - AWHS (talk) 03:04, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * MV Perth - 4 November 2009
 * Ferret (steamship) - 9 July 2009 - SatuSuro 06:10, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Loch Sloy - 18 September 2008 Spy007au (talk) 12:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Concordia (ship 1696) - 12 June 2008 Spy007au (talk) 14:23, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Greycliffe - 23 March 2008. --Merbabu (talk) 16:39, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Loch Vennachar - 21 March 2008. Spy007au (talk) 22:11, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Mort's Dock - Euryalus (talk) 00:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * SS Iron Knight - 6 February 2008
 * SS Fingal - 3 February 2008
 * SS Gothenburg -- Spy007au (talk) 10:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Francis Joseph Bayldon (1872-1948) January 19, 2008
 * Boonah crisis -- 12:56, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MV Sorrento 12:12, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MV Queenscliff 12:12, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Peninsula Princess 12:12, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Koombana -- 8 December 2006
 * List of Australian ports -- 8 December 2006
 * Tryal Rocks -- Hesperian 03:44, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 't Wapen van Hoorn-- Hesperian 06:21, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Vianen (ship) -- Hesperian 12:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ridderschap van Holland (rewrite) -- Hesperian 00:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * List of 17th century shipwrecks in Australia and Template:17th century shipwrecks in Australia -- Hesperian 00:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * City of York (barque) -- &mdash;Moondyne 15:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Koolama -- Grant | Talk 05:40, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Rottnest Island shipwrecks &mdash;Moondyne 12:39, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Participants
Please add your name if you are interested in participating in this project. In addition, participants may wish to add the AMH userbox to their user page by adding: User WPAMH
 * Qualified near-coastal vessel engineer, current Marine Engineering Student
 * interested in the work of the Society for Underwater Historical Research + shipwrecks of South Australia
 * interested in South Australian shipbuilding, commercial shipping + shipwrecks
 * interested in NZ ships - is that within the scope of this project?
 * Pacific whaling in the age of sail
 * interested in various RAN topics, especially ships and ship classes
 * interest: RAN, ferries, Australian shipwrecks
 * interest:ships and people related to discoveries in the Phoenix Islands
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 * Pacific whaling in the age of sail
 * interested in various RAN topics, especially ships and ship classes
 * interest: RAN, ferries, Australian shipwrecks
 * interest:ships and people related to discoveries in the Phoenix Islands
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 * interest: RAN, ferries, Australian shipwrecks
 * interest:ships and people related to discoveries in the Phoenix Islands
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To-do

 * Use this section to list any ideas for new articles or articles which need expansion or improvement. Talk pages of existing articles should be tagged with.

Photos and maps needed
A Painting of the Salamander (3rd Fleet).
 * portrait photo of Francis Joseph Bayldon
 * A map of Cockburn Sound needed, showing Parmelia Bank, Owen Anchorage etc.

Places

 * Anchorages
 * Articles for major Ports and harbours. See Category:Ports and harbours of Australia and List of Australian ports
 * Jetties
 * Articles for Ceduna Jetty, Busselton Jetty, etc.
 * Lighthouses (see Lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia
 * Geographic/bathymetric places of maritime/navigational importance; e.g. Parmelia Bank, Diamantina Deep

People

 * Ship captains - Edward Back
 * Ship crew
 * Ship builders
 * Maritime explorers - need to link with Australian history/Exploration

Ships and boats

 * Verification (citations) for BHP Shipping fleet
 * Coastal traders e.g. Georgette, Champion
 * Convict transports. See redlinks at Convict ships to Western Australia
 * Colonial passenger ships e.g. Parmelia (barque)
 * Explorers ships e.g. Challenger, Naturaliste
 * Disambiguation article on the numerous incarnations of HMS Success (similar to HMS Challenger)
 * Troop ships
 * Pilot Boats

Events and incidents

 * Exploration and charting -- linked with Australian history/Exploration
 * Mapping and surveying
 * Pre 1788
 * Post 1788 - 1901
 * 1901
 * Disasters
 * Shipwrecks (see List of shipwrecks)
 * Shipwreck resource page at WP Australian history/Shipwreck disasters
 * expand Shipwrecks of Western Australia
 * Storms
 * Environmental
 * Kirki (ship)
 * Sanko Harvest
 * Rescues
 * e.g. Tony Bullimore
 * Naval disasters
 * e.g. HMAS Westralia (O 195)
 * Quarantine breaches/incidents
 * e.g. Boonah
 * Escapes e.g. Catalpa rescue
 * Mutinies?

War time operations
Need careful checking with Military history project WikiProject Military history/Australian military history task force


 * World War I
 * Operations
 * Troop transport


 * World War II
 * Operations
 * Foreign shipping based in Australia
 * Fremantle Submarine Base See:

Voyages and routes

 * Voyages
 * Either expand Matthew Flinders or separate article on the voyage of the HMS Investigator (1798)
 * Shipping routes
 * Pacific Ocean
 * Southern Ocean
 * Indian Ocean
 * Consider merge of Clipper route and Roaring Forties

Commercial operations

 * Fishing
 * Bases/Home Ports
 * Fleets
 * Whaling
 * Create entries for whaling in each state (see: Whaling in Western Australia)
 * Cheynes Beach Whaling Station
 * Foreign operators/ships
 * Local operators/ships
 * Stations/Factories
 * Ship manufacturing
 * List of Australian shipyards
 * Shipyard articles
 * Coastal shipping
 * W.A.'s Stateships (formerly "State Shipping Service", and "State Steamships Service")
 * Adelaide Steamship Company
 * Australian National Lines (formerly Australian Coastal Shipping Commission)
 * Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company

Laws and regulation

 * Customs and excise
 * Illegal fishing activity
 * Industrial issues
 * e.g. 1919 Dimboola (ship) crisis
 * Freight Equalisation Scheme agreements between Tas Govt and Fed Govt
 * Acquisitions - signing over authority of lands/waters previously under sovereign UK power
 * 1998 Australian waterfront dispute
 * Services
 * Weather services

Research

 * Archaeology - ANCODS
 * Land with maritime component

Museums

 * Heritage New South Wales
 * Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
 * Museum of Tropical Queensland
 * Queensland Maritime Museum
 * South Australian Maritime Museum
 * Maritime Museum of Tasmania
 * Heritage Victoria

Antarctica

 * Services
 * Ships
 * Voyages

Reference materials

 * Theoretical underpinning of imperial expansions in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans 1600's - 1900's:
 * Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century New York OUP 1981 ISBN 0-19-512832-5


 * Curtin University (and UWA?) co-sponsored conferences in the 1980's (?) - International Indian Ocean Conferences and also a newsletter - which explored all aspects of Indian Ocean issues.

Australian National Shipwreck Database
http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/shipwrecks/database.html

Western Australian Shipwreck Database
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/databases/maritime/Shipwrecks/shipwreck.asp

Images

 * Fremantle Port Authority (plenty of pre-1955 images)

Books

 * Lubbock, Basil (1921) The colonial clippers, J. Brown & son (Glasgow) ltd, Glasgow.
 * Broeze, F. J. A. & Henderson, G. (1986) Western Australians & the sea : our maritime heritage Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Museum. ISBN 0730912442
 * Broeze, F. J. A. (1988) Island nation : a history of Australians and the sea St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1864484241
 * Heath, Byron (2005) Discovering the Great South Land Dural, N.S.W. ISBN 1-877-58-31-9
 * McHugh, Evan (2006) 1606: an epic adventure Sydney, N.S.W. University of New South Wa;les Press Ltd. ISBN 0-86840-866-2

Naval

 * http://www.navy.gov.au/spc/index.html

Other websites

 * http://aapma.org.au/members.php3 Ports list
 * http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/marit.htm
 * http://ils.unc.edu/maritime/home.shtml
 * http://www.maritimehistory.org/
 * http://www.maritimehistory.info/
 * Australian Association for Maritime History
 * Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology

Wikipedia categories
The main category is Category:Maritime history of Australia

The category tree is as follows:


 * See also: WikiProject Australian maritime history/Categories for a discussion on possible restructure of the category tree.

Lists

 * List of Australian ferries
 * List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia