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The Seven Seas Club of Australia is based in Adelaide – South Australia and is made up of members who have a common interest, friendship and passion for the sea, the sea service and a variety of maritime matters in all forms.

05/11/2026

Maritime Construction's busy workboat MV Frederick G leaving Outer Harbor this morning (5/11/2026).

05/11/2026

Crab fisher MV Tenacity heading out from Port Adelaide this morning (5/11/2026).

05/11/2026

CELEBRITY SOLSTICE arrives at PORT ADELAIDE- 5 November 2026.
MS Celebrity Solstice making her first visit to Port Adelaide, since 5 march 2019, and the first in the latest Celebrity livery.
IMO :- 9362530
MMSI :- 249409000
Fag :- Malta
Home Port :- Valetta
Key Ship Specifications
Occupancy: ~2,852 guests (up to 3,420 max)
Crew: ~1,000 to 1,250 members
Length: 1,041 ft (319 m)
Beam (Width): 121 ft (48 m)
Gross Tonnage: 121,878 GT
Decks: 15 decks (8 with staterooms)
Built & Refurbished: Launched in 2008 and received a major multi-million-dollar modernization in early 2026.
Celebrity Solstice is the lead ship of the Solstice class of cruise ships operated by Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group. Built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg she was floated out on 10 August 2008 and christened by ocean scientist professor Sharon L. Smith at a ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, on 14 November 2008. The first post-Panamax vessel in the Celebrity fleet, she features innovative interior design and a 12-deck-high atrium.

04/11/2026

03/11/2026

3 November 1961
SS Karatta made her last trip on the Port Adelaide - Kingscote service.
The Karatta was a steam ship that operated in South Australian waters. It mainly operated for 54 years between 1907 to 1961. Its last voyage was on 3 November 1961, and it was sold five days later to be broken up. It spent its career carrying goods and passengers between Adelaide, Kingscote (on Kangaroo Island) and Port Lincoln. It was replaced by the MV Troubridge in 1961
The photo shows SS Karatta on her last arrival in Port Adelaide.
Image - SLSA.

03/11/2026

25 Most Famous Ships in History⚓

From Tudor warships to ocean liners, these ships made history.

03/11/2026

HMS Unicorn is the world’s most original surviving wooden warship, retaining over 90% of her Georgian timber structure.

She's also the 6th oldest ship in existence anywhere in the world.

Unicorn was launched in 1824 as a 46-gun frigate at Chatham Royal Dockyard, but she was immediately placed in reserve and never saw active combat.

She is now preserved as a historic museum ship in Dundee.

02/11/2026

In 1759, Thomas Slade sat in a Chatham dockyard drawing the lines of a ship that wouldn't fire her most famous broadside for another 46 years.

Nelson was still a year from being born.

Slade's design was a quiet piece of genius. A 3,500-ton first-rate that could make 11 knots in the right conditions, combining the firepower of a floating fortress with speed few ships her size could match.

The scale of what he was asking for is almost hard to picture. Over 6,000 trees, mostly oak from Kent, the New Forest, and Germany. Millions of individual pieces of timber. 26 miles of rope. 768 pulley blocks. 37 sails covering four acres of canvas, with Dundee weavers spending roughly 1,200 hours on the topsail alone.

She took six years to build. Launched in 1765 to a band playing Rule Britannia, then promptly sat in reserve for 13 years.

By 1799 she was rotting at Chatham, holding French and Spanish prisoners. She was 34 years old, structurally weakened, and the Admiralty had already discussed breaking her up for timber.

What saved her was an accident. On 8 October 1799, HMS Impregnable ran aground off Portsmouth. The Navy was suddenly short a three-decked first-rate, and the old ship in Chatham got a reprieve.

The refit cost £70,933, three times the estimate. New copper hull lining, new gun ports, her 42-pounders swapped for faster 32-pounders. She came out of dockyard in 1803, and Nelson hoisted his flag the same year.

At Trafalgar she carried 104 guns. Her broadside weighed over 1,100 pounds of iron, more than every gun in Wellington's artillery at Waterloo combined. Her gunlocks let British crews fire three broadsides to the enemy's two.

The approach to the Franco-Spanish line took 40 minutes under fire before she could reply. When she finally broke through between Bucentaure and Redoubtable, her first broadside killed or wounded between 300 and 450 of Bucentaure's crew in a single pass. A carronade sent a keg of 500 musket balls through a French gunport.

At 1:15pm Nelson was shot through the shoulder. He died at 4:30pm, after being told the battle was won.

Victory lost 57 killed and 102 wounded. The enemy lost 18 ships, over 4,400 dead, and more than 2,500 wounded. She took over 90 cannonballs, lost her wheel mid-battle (40 men rigged emergency steering below decks), was towed to Gibraltar, and sailed home in November carrying Nelson's body in a cask of brandy.

Slade died in 1771. He never saw her fight.

His ship still sits in Portsmouth dry dock today, the oldest warship in the world still in naval service, flagship of the First Sea Lord. Twenty percent of her timber is original.

The keel he drew is still there.

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Adelaide, SA

Telephone

+61407619178

Website

http://sevenseasaustralia.com.au/club/?page_id=20

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