Discover the opportunity to support your community at the Can and Bottle 'RETURN IT' initiative in Wonthaggi! Amazon 1863 Project Inc. is excited to partner with Return It Wonthaggi to accept your generous donations....

What a wonderful way to finish off the year with the ‘Deadwood Unveiling’ finally taking place on the 158th anniversary of the grounding of the Amazon on the Inverloch Surf Beach. The Deadwood is 3.3 metres (11 ft) tall and is quite an imposing relic. It is fixed using the original brass pins (nails) so that there is no attachment to the wood. Most of these brass pins would have been 1.2 metres (4 Ft) in length but have broken off over time. ...

rtefact returns to Inverloch – The big unveiling We have had to postpone the artefact Unveiling at the Hub yet again due to Covid restrictions. We had booked August 27th, but with Melbourne still in lockdown and our Conservator, Heritage Victoria & Victoria State Living Heritage Program officials unable to travel, we now have a new date. Unveiling at 6 pm, drinks, nibbles, raffles… Join us Members receive a Doubloon in exchange for a glass of ...

Join us for drinks, nibbles & the official unveiling of the recently preserved Amazon artefact known as 'The Deadwood'. Come & support the Amazon 1863 Project. Unveiling at 6 pm, drinks, nibbles, raffles… Join us Members receive a Doubloon in exchange for a glass of “Dirty 3 Wine” Bring some $$$ & join in the excitement! Where: Inverloch Community Hub in A’Beckett St. When: Wednesday 15th December at 6pm (was Friday 1st Oct). RSVP:  By email to Secretary@Amazon1863.org.au or call 0423 682 580 ...

By Doug Ford, Friends of the Jersey Maritime Museum.Download their full October 2020 Newsletter Wreck of the AMAZON exposed on 5 July 2020 (image courtesy of V Maddock) In our last newsletter I mentioned the 33-ton Jersey-built barque AMAZON which ran aground on the coast of Victoria, Australia during a severe gale on the morning of Tuesday, 15 December 1863. With no hope of being able to claw his way back to the open sea to save his vessel, Captain Ogier ran her straight onto the shore and then had his crew cut away the fore and mizzen masts to prevent her breaking up. By 3:00pm all the crew were safely ashore and the AMAZON lay abandoned on the shore about eight miles east of Cape Paterson. For the next 150 years or so she lay hidden beneath the sands, occasionally and tantalisingly poking a wooden rib or two through the sand. She even gave her name to the area of the beach - "Wreck Creek"; and then during the Autumn storms in March and April 2015 more of the wreck surfaced including rare and delicate organic artefacts such as a deadeye with a knot still tied at one end. The handrail with dead-eyes...