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

Australian maritime history articles		Importance
Australian maritime history articles		Mid	None	Total
Quality
	FA		4	4
	A		1	1
	GA		5	5
	B		38	38
	Start		241	241
	Stub	1	329	330
	Assessed	1	618	619
	Unassessed		1	1
	Total	1	619	620

1 Goals
2 Scope
- 2.1 Geographical boundaries
3 Included Australian states and territories
4 Project development strategy
5 Standards and notability
- 5.1 Notability criteria
6 Article creation
7 Images
8 Other projects
9 Recently created/updated articles
10 Recent Xfd items related to Maritime History
11 Participants
12 To-do
13 Reference materials

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Included Australian states and territories

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

[edit] Project development strategy

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

[edit] 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 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

[edit] Notability criteria

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

[edit] 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: {{WP Australia|maritime=yes}}

[edit] Images

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

[edit] Other projects

[edit] Recently created/updated articles

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

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) -- —Moondyne 15:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Koolama -- Grant | Talk 05:40, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Rottnest Island shipwrecks —Moondyne 12:39, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Xfd items related to Maritime History

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Queen of the Netherlands (ship)

[edit] Participants

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

Callophylla (talk · contribs)
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)
Hossen27 (talk · contribs)
Kralizec! (talk · contribs) interested in various RAN topics, especially ships and ship classes
Mbruce1 (talk · contribs)
Moondyne (talk · contribs)
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)

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

This user is a member of the Australian maritime history Wikiproject.

[edit] 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 {{WP Australia|maritime=yes}}.

[edit] Photos and maps needed

portrait photo of Francis Joseph Bayldon
photo of Woodman Light -- Y Done Image:WoodmanPointLighthouse.JPG
A decent map of Cockburn Sound needed, showing Parmelia Bank, Owen Anchorage etc.
Map of Rottnest Island -- Y Done Image:Rottnest map.png
penguin sweater and Sweaters for Penguins non-copyright photo of a fairy penguin in a (sweater)/jumper.

[edit] 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

[edit] People

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

[edit] Ships and boats

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

[edit] 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) [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?

[edit] War time operations

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]

[edit] Voyages and routes

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

[edit] Commercial operations

Fishing
- Bases/Home Ports
- Fleets
Whaling
- expand Whaling in Australia (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

[edit] Laws and regulation

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

[edit] Research

Archaeology
Land with maritime component

[edit] 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

[edit] Antartica

Services
Ships
Voyages

[edit] 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.

[edit] National Shipwreck Database

http://eied.deh.gov.au/nsd/public/welcome.cfm

[edit] Western Australian Shipwreck Database

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

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

[edit] Images

Fremantle Port Authority (plenty of pre-1955 images)

[edit] Books

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