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NAUTICAL GIFT SHOP AT THE MUSEUM

Entrance to the nautical gift shop is free.  It is a treasure trove of small inexpensive gifts with a predominately nautical theme and includes souvenirs, cards, fridge magnets, lighthouses, sailing ships, trawlers lifebuoys and much more.

We also have a range of DVDs and Videos including:

  • Bayside Reflections (Vol 1 & 2) – excellent videos of Port Phillip compiled from old film and newsreel footage

  • The Couta Boat – unique to Queenscliff and the coast of Victoria

  • Trading Ketches of S.A

  • Watchdogs of the Deep diving on the J Class Submarines

  • The Last of the Windjammers

The Gift shop also boasts an extensive range of maritime books and publications:

  • The history of Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale

  • Tales of Victorian fishing ports

  • Reference books covering the wrecks at Port Phillip heads and along the Victorian coastline

  • Lighthouses

  • The Queenscliff couta boats

  • Lifeboats

  • Rescues and heroic tales

  • Immigrant ships

  • Passenger ferries

  • Windjammers

  • Books by the late Jack Loney who wrote extensively on the maritime history of Victoria and its shipwreck coast

Some children’s titles in stock:

  • Defiance Goes to Sea - a delightful story about a little couta boat which mixes history with fiction and is set to rhyme

  • 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

  • Pirate Things to Make and Do - a wonderful book full of ideas, activities and stickers,  a must for budding pirates and pirate parties

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