Australian National Maritime Museum
Working harbour museum with warships, a submarine, and a rescued nineteenth century sailing barque moored alongside.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Australian National Maritime Museum turns on a ship someone deliberately sank in the nineteen twenties, in a quiet Tasmanian inlet called Recherche Bay. It traces her back to 1874, when she was launched in England as the Clan Macleod and spent twenty six years hauling cargo under sail, rounding the treacherous Cape Horn twenty three times before a new owner renamed her James Craig. For forty years afterward she lay sunk in that bay, a rusting hulk nobody wanted.
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