NAUTICAL GIFT
SHOP AT THE QUEENSCLIFFE MARITIME MUSEUM
GIFTS & SOUVENIRS
The shop is a treasure trove of small inexpensive
nautical gifts - souvenirs, cards, posters, model lighthouses and ships,
tide clocks and much more.
BOOKS
The shop
holds an extensive range of maritime books and publications about:
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The history of Queenscliff and
Point Lonsdale -
Tales of Victorian fishing ports
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Reference books covering the
wrecks at Port Phillip heads and along the Victorian coastline
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Lighthouses
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The
Queenscliff couta boats
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Lifeboats
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Rescues and heroic tales
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Immigrant ships
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Passenger ferries
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Windjammers
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Books by the late Jack Loney who wrote
extensively on the maritime history of Victoria and the shipwreck coast
DVDs
Our range
changes as new nautical titles become available
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Bayside Reflections (Vol 1 & 2) – excellent videos of Port Phillip
compiled from old film and newsreel footage
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The Couta Boat – unique to
Queenscliff and the coast of Victoria
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Trading Ketches of South
Australia
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Watchdogs of the
Deep – diving on the J Class Submarines
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The Last of
the Cape Horners - the end of the great sailing ship era
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Trading out
of Hobart - an oral history on film
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Queenscliff Maritime Weekend
2008 - highlights of the annual festival
Audio CDs in stock include:
Some
children’s book titles in stock:
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Defiance Goes to Sea - a delightful story about a little couta boat which mixes history with
fiction and is set to rhyme
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Defiance to the Rescue
- the history of Queenscliff’s famous Lifeboat is entwined into a modern
setting of search and rescue with Defiance once again the hero
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Pirate Things to Make and Do
- full of ideas, activities
and stickers, a must for budding pirates and pirate parties
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