The Cairns Maritime Museum….. [email protected]

First opening of the ‘container’ eggs manifest and set for 2025

Netted ‘salvaged’ from Wet tropical storage to temperate dry tropical keeping place in South Townsville.

Management and Vision

thoughts and feelings

entropy versus a force of nature

Ship meets catastrophic force majeure ; material recovered from the Great Barrier Reef and Islands before the historic shipwreck Act of 1976

Ben Cropp bronze and ballast cargo

Collection ; Aarhus Bega Cato Gothenburg Mermaid Pandora Porpoise Sir Charles Eaton

Cambus-Wallace Merchant Endeavour Jennie Deane’s

Bounty or Pandora’s Box

Dates and times TBA

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shipwreck relic stations of dramatic unfolding dilemma in diorama

After over a year in the planning, and with the generous support of Ports North , the AMSA recovery crew, IAS fine art logistics team, Bells Cranes, REV Cranes, LK Drain heavy Haulage and the TMML / CMM volunteers , the shipwreck museum artefacts and Ben Cropp collection have arrived in Townsville.

Yongala , Cato, Endeavour just to begin with….

Shipwreck Museum Containers to travel to Townsville Maritime Museum
Light House Artefacts to return to AMSA
Ben Cropp Legacy and Provenance preserved
AGM
Floating Museum stories proposal
Pearling Industry … Life on the Line… Coral Sea Exhibition…

Hector opened the door to our visit thank you Hector and Colleagues.

CMM @ Netherland National Maritime Museum

Royal Barge jolly boat meets Pearl of the Coral Sea HB

Ships are safe in Harbours but that is not where they are made for being.

Harbours rot both vessels and crew

Crew application form at

NFA Endangered Species Watch and Maritime Museum research vessel

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Not yet over this cyclone monsoon

Stay cool stay tuned this season

We sat in the very eye of TC Kirrily

Not yet scuppered feathers ruffled!

Since the November 2022 haul out and 2023 repaint to achieve ‘event exhibition’ status.

CMM will be dusted down and opened up to members for tea time sea time events.

Location Horseshoe Bay

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