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The Burgess Family
The Burgess family is one of Tasmania’s best-known seafaring families. Richard Burgess, a Devonshire seafarer, came to the colonies in the early 1800s and set

devonport history
Bridges Across the Mersey: Victoria Bridge
On the 18th of May 1870, a public meeting was held to discuss how best to persuade the Government to erect a bridge over either

bass strait history
The Britomart – Victim of Foul Play?
A 243 ton barque, the Britomart was built in H.M. Dockyard in Hobart in 1808. On the 15th of December 1839 she sailed from Melbourne