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Our Collection

The Warship & Marine Corps Museum Collection includes:

  • A library of over 5000 books and government documents covering all periods of Naval history, used to help research Museum
    displays;
  • Diaries and handwritten personal accounts of life in the Navy both ashore & afloat, in war and peace;
  • Uniforms, rank and ratings badges and medals along with an extensive collection of cap tallies;
  • Models of ships;
  • Paintings, prints and original recruiting posters from around the world;
  • Numerous maps from the 17th and 18th centuries – many depicting New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land;
  • Approximately 6,000 Naval-related postcards from 1890s through to 1945;
  • Signatures of most Royal Australian Navy commissioning and decommissioning crews since the second half of the 20th Century, autographed command cards, historical photographs and documents, newspaper posters;
  • Nameplates, shell cases and signal flags, life buoys and other artefacts from ships;
  • Photographs and documents relating to the U.S. Apollo Mission Moon Landings;
  • More than 100,000 negatives of Naval ships from a large number of navies taken from the early 1930s to the present. Prints available via our shop.

NAVAL EQUIPMENT

Whitehead Torpedo Gyroscope

c.1890s
Sold to the Swedish Navy in the early 20th century.

Torpedo Firing Panel

From HMAS Hobart

Canon Balls

18th Century

RAN Issue WWII Gas Mask

PRINTS & POSTERS

Recruitment Poster

Australia 1982. RAN recruiting poster for proposed new aircraft carrier.

Poster

WWII British war bonds.

Newspaper Poster

Australia July 21, 1969. Original.

Recruiting Poster

Singapore Navy.

Poster

1942. Depicting possible sea mines that could be dropped by the Japanese.

VISIT

The Museum collection is now on display, together with the Museum shop “Mainly Maritime”, in the seaside town of St Helens, in Tasmania, Australia.

Open 10am-5pm daily
Parking available on-site.

Admission Costs:
Adults – $10
Concession (pensioners, local residents and full-time students over 18) – $8
Children 7-17 – $5
Children under 7 – free

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