Memorial held for WWII hero
The familiy of ordinary seaman Edward Teddy Sheean has marked the 68th anniversary of his death with a ceremony at Latrobe in Tasmania's north-west.
What is Triabunna? Explain Triabunna, Define Triabunna, Meaning of Triabunna
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Title: What is Triabunna? Explain Triabunna, Define Triabunna, Meaning of Triabunna
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Description: Triabunna is the second largest township on the east coast of Tasmania, the civic and municipal heart of the Glamorgan Spring Bay Council and is 84 kilometres to the north-east of the state capital Hobart. It is a coastal town on the Tasman Highway, and is sheltered within Spring Bay at the mouth of MacCleans Creek and Vickerys Rivulet. The nearest township is Orford, 6 kilometres to the south on the far side of the bay. At the 2006 census, Triabunna had a population of 796.The nearby resort and residences of Louisville are considered a satellite community of Triabunna. Triabunna is an Aboriginal Tasmanian word for the endemic Tasmanian native-hen. The town was founded in 1830 as a station of the 63rd regiment, and later the 51st regiment also called Triabunna home for a time. Triabunna is a scenic township surrounded by beaches, hills and beautiful tracts of eucalyptus forest. The area contains many historic buildings from Tasmania's colonial period. Triabunna also commands excellent views of Maria Island, which can be reached by a short ferry ride from the town. Located on the Triabunna foreshore there is the Tasmanian Seafarers Memorial, a memorial jointly commemorating all Tasmanian seafarers who lost their lives at sea, including Tasmanian members of the armed services, and those seafarers who, regardless of occupation or nationality, lost their lives in Tasmanian waters. A memorial service is held in October each year when recently added memorial plaques remembering lives lost are dedicated. The weather on the east coast of Tasmania is particularly mild, and warm sunny summers are a feature of life in Triabunna, which makes it a good holiday or retirement destination. The pleasant beaches and ease of access make the town a haven for those who enjoy watersports such as fishing, sailing, surfing, and diving. Triabunna also has excellent facilities for tennis, cricket, golf and Australian rules football. Bushwalking in the nearby forests is also popular.
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Port Arthur, Tasmania
Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. Port Arthur is one of Australia's most significant heritage areas and an open-air museum.
The site forms part of the Australian Convict Sites, a World Heritage property consisting of eleven remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips. Collectively, these sites, including Port Arthur, now represent, ...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts.
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Kyoto - Memories of a Salford Seaman
In this second part of our series of talks with Jimmy Rushby we hear even more fascinating stories of his life in the Royal Navy in World War Two.
Jimmy was given fourteen days leave in Kyoto courtesy of the American forces for the role the HMS Anson played in supporting their armed forces in the Far East.
Incredibly he was taken to a top secret bomb range where the Japanese were developing pilotless bomber planes not unlike the doodglebugs that the Germans unleashed upon England in the latter part of World War Two.
They say you can take the boy out of Salford etc and Jimmy proves this with his tale of how he acquired a pair of binoculars as a souvenir of the war.
He also visited local dance halls and became known as Shimmy by the local girls presumably their pronunciation of Jimmy or perhaps on account of his dancing skills.
Kimono's and embrodered tapestries could be purchased for a packet of cigarettes, he made me laugh when telling me that he did not bother aquiring any samurai swords because, you only have to bloody polish them if you hang them on the wall!.
Finally Jimmy showed me some rare and possibly unseen photographs of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester with their two children, the Duke was the Governor General of Australia at the time and was on his way to Hobart, Tasmania.
This ends this series of talks with Jimmy, I hope that you have enjoyed it, I know that I have because to me people like Jimmy are the true unsung heroes of Salford and should be celebrated.
Tiffany Furniture (Australian ad) 1984
Tiffany Furniture commercial from 1984 transferred from beta tape. I totally remember the old Tiffany Furniture commercials when I was child living in Tassie in the 80s particularly the jingle. Don't know if the business is still operating today.
First Fleet
The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which left Great Britain on 13 May 1787 to found a penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia. The fleet consisted of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports, carrying more than 1,000 convicts, marines and seamen, and a vast quantity of stores. From England, the Fleet sailed southwest to Rio de Janeiro, then east to Cape Town and via the Great Southern Ocean to Botany Bay, arriving in mid-January 1788, taking 250 to 252 days from departure to final arrival.
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List of works about the Dutch East India Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:07:29 1 Non-fiction
00:07:38 1.1 Books, dissertations and theses
00:07:49 1.1.1 General
00:24:47 1.1.2 Roles in economic, financial and business history
00:44:41 1.1.3 Science, technology, and culture in the VOC World
01:01:53 1.1.4 VOC military and political history
01:06:02 1.1.5 VOC maritime history (VOC in the Age of Exploration)
01:24:44 1.1.6 VOC historiography
01:27:47 1.1.7 VOC people
01:42:03 1.1.8 VOC in Europe
01:47:45 1.1.9 VOC in Africa
02:08:51 1.1.10 VOC in South and West Asia (including the Indian subcontinent)
02:30:42 1.1.11 VOC in Southeast Asia (including the East Indies)
02:44:53 1.1.12 VOC in East Asia
03:09:42 1.2 Journal articles, scholarly papers, essays, and book chapters
03:09:55 1.2.1 General history
03:42:39 1.2.2 Economic, financial and business history
04:35:09 1.2.3 Cultural and social history
05:29:40 1.2.4 Military and political history
05:54:16 1.2.5 Maritime history
06:12:14 2 Fiction
06:13:42 3 Audio
06:14:30 4 Video
06:15:16 5 Seminars and symposiums
06:15:42 6 Documentary
06:16:09 7 Film
06:16:27 8 Music
06:16:40 9 VOC World in visual arts
06:17:01 10 See also
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The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) is one of the most influential and best expertly researched companies/corporations in history. As an exemplary historical company-state, the VOC had effectively transformed itself from a corporate entity into a state, an empire, or even a world in its own right. The VOC World (i.e. networks of people, places, things, activities, and events associated with the Dutch East India Company) has been the subject of a vast amount of literature that includes both fiction and non-fiction works. VOC World studies is an international multidisciplinary field focused on social, cultural, religious, scientific, technological, economic, financial, business, maritime, military, political, legal, diplomatic activities, institutional organization, and administration of the VOC and its colourful world. Some of the notable VOC historians/scholars include Sinnappah Arasaratnam, Leonard Blussé, Peter Borschberg, Charles Ralph Boxer, Jaap Bruijn, Femme Gaastra, Om Prakash, Günter Schilder, and Nigel Worden.
In terms of global business history, the lessons from the VOC's success and failure are critically important. With a permanent capital base, the VOC was the first permanently organized limited-liability joint-stock company at the dawn of modern capitalism. As an early pioneering model of the modern corporation, the VOC was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on a formal stock exchange. In the early 1600s the VOC became the world's first formally listed public company (or publicly listed company) by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public. In many respects, modern-day publicly listed multinational corporations (including Forbes Global 2000 companies) are all 'descendants' of the 17th-century VOC business model.
For almost 200 years of its existence (1602–1800), the Company played crucial roles in business, financial, socio-politico-economic, military-political, diplomatic, legal, ethnic, and exploratory maritime history of the world. In the early modern period, the VOC was the driving force behind the rise of corporate-led globalization, corporate power, corporate identity, corporate culture, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, corporate finance, corporate capitalism, and finance capitalism. It was the VOC's institutional innovations and business practices that laid the foundations for the rise of giant global corporations to become a highly significant and formidable socio-politico-economic force of the modern world as we know it today ...
Ferry | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:44 1 History
00:00:54 1.1 In ancient times
00:01:56 2 Notable services
00:02:06 2.1 Africa
00:02:15 2.2 Europe
00:06:07 2.3 North America
00:13:29 2.4 Oceania
00:14:40 2.5 Asia
00:15:39 2.6 India
00:17:04 3 Types
00:17:25 3.1 Double-ended
00:18:28 3.2 Hydrofoil
00:19:22 3.3 Hovercraft
00:20:05 3.4 Catamaran
00:21:27 3.5 Roll-on/roll-off
00:21:46 3.6 Cruiseferry / RoPax
00:22:10 3.7 Fast RoPax ferry
00:22:55 3.8 Turntable ferry
00:23:25 3.9 Pontoon ferry
00:24:05 3.10 Train ferry
00:24:30 3.11 Foot ferry
00:25:16 3.12 Cable ferry
00:26:55 3.13 Air ferries
00:27:44 4 Docking
00:28:27 5 Records
00:28:36 5.1 Gross tonnage
00:28:58 5.2 Oldest
00:30:54 5.3 Largest networks
00:32:12 5.4 Busiest networks
00:32:47 5.5 Fastest
00:33:34 6 Sustainability
00:35:22 6.1 Alternative fuels
00:37:34 7 Accidents
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A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi.
Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels. Ship connections of much larger distances (such as over long distances in water bodies like the Mediterranean Sea) may also be called ferry services, especially if they carry vehicles.