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.

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

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 Wikipedia: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.

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.

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

• To take consideration of the issues raised at Wikipedia: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

• 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 Wikipedia: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 - Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Assessment

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

Ships	Age of sail: made at least one voyage to Australia All other ships: was damaged or sunk with loss of life; or was involved in an incident which was widely reported in the media
Voyages	made a "voyage of discovery" which named at least one notable landmark
Ports	Gazetted. See List of Australian ports

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 a nutshell: If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article.

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 Wikipedia:Notability.

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: {{WP Australia|maritime=yes}}

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

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Please add your name if you are interested in participating in this project.

• Bishop of Ephesus (talk · contribs) Qualified near-coastal vessel engineer, current Marine Engineering Student
• Cowdy001 (talk · contribs) interested in the work of the Society for Underwater Historical Research + shipwrecks of South Australia
• Callophylla (talk · contribs)
• Danimations (talk · contribs) interested in South Australian shipbuilding, commercial shipping + shipwrecks
• Euryalus (talk · contribs)
• Geronimo20 (talk · contribs) interested in NZ ships - is that within the scope of this project?
• Ghostieguide (talk · contribs)
• Gnangarra (talk · contribs)
• Golden Wattle (talk · contribs)
• Grant65 (talk · contribs)
• Histragic (talk · contribs) Pacific whaling in the age of sail
• Hossen27 (talk · contribs)
• Kralizec! (talk · contribs) interested in various RAN topics, especially ships and ship classes
• Majormax (talk · contribs)
• Mbruce (talk · contribs)
• Nevanderson (talk · contribs) interest: RAN, ferries, Australian shipwrecks
• nhoj1991 (talk · contribs)
• Nick Dowling (talk · contribs)
• Pustelnik (talk · contribs) interest:ships and people related to discoveries in the Phoenix Islands
• Sarah (talk · contribs)
• SatuSuro (talk · contribs)
• SauliH (talk · contribs)
• Scoreed (talk · contribs)
• Spy007au (talk · contribs)
• Zamphuor (talk · contribs)21:52

In addition, participants may wish to add the AMH userbox to their user page by adding: {{User WPAMH}}

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 {{WP Australia|maritime=yes}}.

• portrait photo of Francis Joseph Bayldon
• A map of Cockburn Sound needed, showing Parmelia Bank, Owen Anchorage etc.

A Painting of the Salamander (3rd Fleet).

• 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

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

• 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

• 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) [1]
    • Sanko Harvest [2]
  • 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?

Need careful checking with Military history project Wikipedia: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: [3][4]

• 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

• 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

• Customs and excise
• Illegal fishing activity
• Industrial issues
  • e.g. 1919 Dimboola (ship) crisis [5]
  • 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

• Archaeology - ANCODS
• Land with maritime component

• 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

• Services
• Ships
• Voyages

• 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 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: checksum

• 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.

http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/shipwrecks/database.html

http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/databases/maritime/Shipwrecks/shipwreck.asp

{{Western Australian Shipwrecks Database | name = Hadda | id = 1269}}

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

• 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

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

• 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

The main category is Category:Maritime history of Australia

The category tree is as follows:

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

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

• Maritime history
• Maritime history of Europe
• Indian maritime history
• Maritime history of California
• Maritime archaeology