History For

Shiplovers

“Story of Gippsland Shipping” is good reading for those in terested in factual accounts about ships. The 110-page book contains dozens of anecdotes about the men who sailed the east Victorian coast from 1770 to the present day.

Written by two authors from Vic ia, Messrs. P. J. Williams and J.

Bull, it is readable, with indexes • both ships and general events, well as some well-produced photos old ships.

Several of the Gippsland ships peared later in New Guinea waters, plain Alexander Rennie took the •ton schooner Dove from Mel urne in 1878 in the hope of strik ! it rich in the rumoured goldfields New Guinea.

Dove reached NG, but due to •ious mishaps Captain Rennie and crew returned home empty aded.

Steamships Trading Co.

Phe 100-ton steamer Queenscliff, ilt in Melbourne in 1876, spent ,ny years plying the Gippsland ist before Captain A. S. Fitch Light her in 1918 and a year later >k her up to New Guinea. Captain ch started Steamships Trading Dprietary Ltd. with Queenscliff.

He used her to trade around all Papuan trading posts.

Another ship to make its mark NG after many years work around ppsland was the big steamer of same name. Gippsland was used the Allies in World War II for nsport of supplies and men around NG Islands.

After this war, a salvage company d her around NG, but she was scked during a storm about 1948.

Story of Gippsland Shipping is xi value for shiplovers.—K.McG.

Story Of Gippsland Shipping,

liam Publications, Eaglemont, Mel rne. $1.50.) • A successful general cook book t published in 1965 by the women the New Guinea Lutheran Mission id printed by the mission’s High ds Publishing Co., Wapenamanda, ;stern Highlands) has now been ised. It’s oriented to territory iditions and with more than 300 ?es it’s good value at $2.00 (direct m the mission press).