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To book for the Iron, Steel and Steam seminar please contact the Members office on
02 9298 3644 or email members@anmm.gov.au

Cost	Members*	Non-members*
Two days	$45	$55
Friday	$25	$30
Saturday	$30	$35

*Members discount also available to students, members of the Sydney Project Team, the Sydney Heritage Fleet, the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology.

Schedule and information

Friday 30 June 2006
Location: ANZ Theatre, Australian National Maritime Museum
2 Murray Street, Darling Harbour

5.00 pm – 5.45 pm Welcome refreshments

5.50 pm – 5.55 pm Welcome to the Sydney stage of the Iron, Steel and Steam seminar

6.00 pm – 6.50 pm Ted Graham: Chairman, HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd, W.A.

The Hunt for Sydney II

On 19 November 1941 the HMAS Sydney was sunk by the German ship HSK Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia: 645 perished­ – there were no survivors. A search is being mounted covering a 30 x 30 nautical mile area in deep water offshore from Carnarvon, Western Australia. HMAS Sydney Search intends to find and ensure preservation of these important war graves for the entire community.

Ted Graham is the general manager of development at Mermaid Marine, a global maritime company where he has been since 2001. He is president and a life member of the Petroleum Club of Western Australia (Inc.), and a maritime history enthusiast, whose knowledge of the market, the marine industry and industry personnel is substantial.

For more information on HMAS Sydney Search visit www.findingsydney.com

7.00 pm – 7.45 pm Dr Mark Spencer: Australian underwater photographer

The Birchgrove Park, The Catterthun, deepwater shipwreck archaeology

The last real shipwreck to occur in the Sydney area was the loss of the SS Birchgrove Park on 2 August 1956. The ship was lost off the far northern beaches of the city in a terrible storm while on a regular trip from Newcastle to Sydney.

The pre-federation steamer Catterthun foundered against Seal Rocks off Foster in 1895. Hear of the successful attempts to salvage her valuable cargo of gold sovereigns. Glimpse photographs of the Catterthun and SS Birchgrove Park as Mark Spencer shares tales of underwater adventure from recent dives.

Mark Spencer has been scuba diving for the last 27 years and is an award-winning underwater photographer. His images have been published in Australian Geographic and he has documented many shipwreck sites including the Catterthun, Cumberland and SS Birchgrove. He was the expedition leader of Project AE2 in 1997 – 1998 and was a diving member of the inaugural expedition to identify and document the wreck of the Tasman.

7.45 pm – 8.15 pm Supper break

8.15 pm – 9.15 pm Dr. John Broadwater: director, Maritime Heritage Program, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) USA

The USS Monitor Project

On 9 March 1862 naval warfare changed forever when the USS Monitor engaged the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War. The Monitor must have seemed a strange sight to Confederate seamen. It had no sails and was powered only by a steam engine. The deck was just 18 inches above the waterline and protected by an iron belt. The Confederates dubbed it ‘the little cheese box on a raft’. However, this ‘cheese box’ packed a powerful punch. Its two large canons were housed inside a revolving turret, which meant the ship did not have to reposition itself to fire at the enemy. Despite its legendary battle worthiness, the Monitor met its match at sea and the victor was nature. While being towed past the Outer Banks of North Carolina to a naval engagement, it encountered an Atlantic gale, capsized and sank with the loss of 16 lives. It lay in 230 feet of water until 1973, when an expedition partly funded by National Geographic located it on the sea bed. Video footage confirmed the exact location of the gun turret, in an inverted position with the hull on top of it. The expedition was fraught with danger and potential problems. The 150 Navy divers encountered a variety of hazards and the seas off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, which are notoriously unpredictable.

Dr John Broadwater was sanctuary manager of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary from 1992 to 2005. In that capacity, he directed six major expeditions to the remains of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. During July – August, 2002, Dr. Broadwater was NOAA Chief Scientist for Monitor Expedition 2002, a NOAA/US Navy expedition that recovered the Monitor's 120-ton gun turret. In 2005 he became program manager of a new initiative, NOAA's Maritime Heritage Program.

During 1978 – 90, as Virginia's first state underwater archaeologist, he directed a study of shipwrecks from the 1781 Battle of Yorktown (Virginia) and also developed a statewide underwater archaeology program. He has participated in numerous national and international underwater archaeological expeditions, including deepwater archaeology expeditions in the Black Sea and North Atlantic. In September 2001, he descended to a depth of 12,600 feet in the Mir 2 submersible to the wreck of the RMS Titanic. He starred in James Cameron’s documentary IMAX film on the Titanic shipwreck Ghosts of the Abyss (2003).

He has served as a member of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology and other advisory boards. He is a Fellow National of The Explorers Club. He has published a variety of technical and popular articles, including ‘Secrets of a Yorktown Shipwreck’ in the June 1988 issue of National Geographic magazine.

For more information on the USS Monitor visit http://www.monitorcenter.org/

Saturday 1 July 2006

Location: On board South Steyne, Pyrmont Bay

09.00 am – 9.15 am Kieran Hosty, Curator, Australian National Maritime Museum

Welcome to the second day of the Iron, Steel and Steam seminar

09.15 am – 10.00 am CMDR John Foster: Director, AE1 Project Team

The AE1 project – Australia’s first submarine

Australia’s first submarine AE1 was commissioned at the outbreak of WWI and served in New Guinea waters in operations against the German colonies. On 14 September, AE1, accompanied by HMAS Parramatta, left Blanche Bay, New Britain, to patrol off Cape Gazelle. She was last seen by HMAS Parramatta at 3.30 pm that day. A search took place but no trace was found of her.

John Foster became interested in the AE1 mystery while he was in command of RAN navy personnel posted to Papua New Guinea and deputy commander of the Australian Defence Co-operation Group Port Moresby. He began his search for the AEI after retirement. The initial survey for the AEI was based on information provided by a local trocus shell diver off the east end of Mioko Island. As project leader, John Foster coordinated a team of maritime specialists and began the search in the 14-m survey vessel J Michelson in 2003.

CMDR John Foster is a former naval officer whose career spanned nearly 30 years. He has had many interesting postings including five sea-going commands; two ships of the Royal Navy – HMS Repton and HMS Shoulton – and three ships of the RAN - Hawk, Parramatta and briefly the former aircraft carrier Melbourne. John is the author of two books: Hands to Boarding Stations!, the story of HMAS Hawk during Indonesian Confrontation Duties and AE1 - Entombed but not forgotten. For more information on the submarine AE1 visit:
http://www.navy.gov.au/spc/history/ships/ae1.html

10.00 am – 10.45 am Tim Smith: Senior Heritage Officer, Heritage Office, Dept. of Planning

AE2 (1915): the silent ANZAC, recording Australia's lost Gallipoli submarine, Turkey.

On 25 April 1915, while Australian troops were landing at Gallipoli, the submarine AE2 entered the straits of the Dardanelles to attack enemy shipping. It attempted to engage the enemy and elude Turkish gunboats for two days until, under attack from a torpedo boat, the submarine became uncontrollable – ‘like a floundering whale’ – and was then hit a number of times. The men were ordered to quickly abandon the boat, which was scuttled. The crew was captured by the Turks and became prisoners; four of them would later die in captivity.

Tim Smith is a state maritime archaeologist and senior heritage officer at the Heritage Office, Department of Planning. He is director - maritime archaeology of the Submarine Institute of Australia’s (SIA) expedition that has been documenting the historic Australian submarine AE2, lost near Gallipoli, Turkey, on 30 April 1915. This year the SIA team is undertaking the first systematic remote and diver-based archaeological survey of the AE2 wreck site, while Tim is also embarking on a new project to remotely map and investigate the underwater battlefield landscape at ANZAC Cove and the Dardanelles peninsula. For more information on the submarine AE2 visit http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/heritagensw/apr98/5_art.htm

For more information on the NSW Heritage Office visit
http://maritime.heritage.nsw.gov.au/default.cfm

10.45 am – 11.15 pm Morning Tea

11.15 am – 12.00 pm John Riley: Australian deepwater wreck and marine engine specialist

The waterline theory – 20 years on

In pioneering diving inspections off the Australian coast during the 1970s, John Riley conclusively showed that iron vessels settled upright underwater on their keels in sand and often would bury to their approximate waterline. His research is described as the ‘waterline theory of iron ship disintegration’. Hear John discuss recent developments in his research and the application of his theory on recent shipwreck dives.

John Riley is an Australian deepwater wreck specialist and expert in shipwreck site formation. He was the first person to successfully dive the SS Woniora, recovering the ship’s bell. He led the team on the hazardous recovery of the iron passenger steamship Tasman and the steam-powered collier Myola, sunk off the coast of Sydney in 1919.

12.00 pm – 12.45 pm Samir Alhafith: Project Leader, the Sydney Project Team

The Sydney Project Team and the SS Cumberland, Liberty ship William Dawes and the Bega.

The Sydney Project Team aims to extend the boundaries of diving exploration in Sydney and surrounding areas. They educate and encourage divers to develop their skills and ability in a framework of environmental preservation, and work alongside governmental and scientific bodies. Hear about the teams extensive work in site recording and documenting the underwater heritage of Sydney and the team's work on the SS Cumberland, Liberty ship William Dawes and the Bega.

Samir Alhafith is a specialist deep water technical diver and a recipient of a NSW Heritage Office Award along with other members of the Sydney Project team for their work on conservation of underwater cultural heritage. He has been diving since 1995 and is an active cave and shipwreck diver.

For more information on the Sydney Project Team visit http://www.sydneyproject.com/news/news.asp

12.45 pm – 1.30 pm Lunch break

1.30 pm – 2.15 pm Ray Sutcliff : National Heritage Executive Committee, England

Iron, steel and steam development in the United Kingdom

In the time of Queen Victoria, Britain was the world's leading industrial nation. As an island, much of her wealth depended on her merchant ships, which carried goods and people between the various parts of her empire. Britain led the world in ship building and with such engineers as Brunel the empire entered the era of steel and steam.

Ray Sutcliff trained as an historian and has worked as a specialist producer of history and archaeology programmes for the BBC. A pioneer of marine archaeology on film, he devised and set up the major series Discoveries underwater, the culmination of a career of maritime historical films that include the Mary Rose. He has held many positions in learned societies, and is currently a trustee of the Nautical Museums Trust. Ray is also an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

For more information on the National Heritage Committee, England visit
http://www.nationalheritage.org.uk/activities.php

2.15 pm – 3.15 pm Dr Mack McCarthy: marine archaeologist, WA Maritime Museum

A season with J P Delgado & Larry Murphy at submarine Explorer in Panama

Delgado made a sensational historic find when he discovered the lost submarine Explorer, one of the world's first functioning underwater boats, designed by a brilliant German engineer whose invention eventually brought him an agonizing death. An international team of scientists set out for the waters of the Pearl Archipelago on 18 February 2006. According to expedition leader Delgado, he had ‘assembled the best people’ – people like Australian Michael McCarthy, 58, a world-renowned underwater archaeologist, and Larry Murphy, also 58, a specialist in corrosion studies. One of the most pressing issues for the team was to determine how much longer the rare wreck would withstand constantly being submerged in salt water. They also wanted to find out what materials were used to build the craft and how it actually worked.

Dr Mack McCarthy is curator at the Western Australian Maritime Museum responsible for the museum's 'Site Inspection' and 'Outreach' programs and is the archaeologist responsible for the excavations of the VOC ship Zuytdorp (1702 – 1711) and SS Xantho (1848 – 1872). Mack is also interested in submarine and aircraft wrecks as a developing class of maritime archaeology. He also leads the museum's HMAS Sydney/HSK Kormoran program and recently led a team that located the site of HMS Roebuck, William Dampier's famous command.

For more information on WA Maritime Museum shipwreck programs visit http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/maritime/march/march.asp

3.30 pm – 4.30 pm Afternoon refreshments