Maritime Heritage Association

News & Events

AGM of the Maritime Heritage Association

Was held on Sunday 12th April 2026 11.30am at the Heritage Room of South of Perth Yacht Club. As usual the SoPYC provided us with an excellent lunch after the AGM. A list of the elected Officers and Committee Members is on the Committee Page.

Albany Maritime Celebration

Albany is the site for Western Australia's first bicentenary and the 50th anniversary of the building of the Amity replica. Come down for a great Maritime celebration. Whilst European seafarers had been visiting since as early as 1627, with Pieter Nuyts first mapping of the coastline, it was on the 25 December 1826, that HM colonial brig Amity, carrying Major Edmund Lockyer and his party, arrived at King George Sound to establish a military garrison. On 21 January 1827 the Union Jack was raised and a "Feu de Joie" fired by the troops, formally annexing the territory and in doing so, preventing the French from staking a claim of sovereignty.

Brig Amity watercolour [2018] by Ross Shardlow AM

Information about the lectures in the Museum on Tuesdays
10:30am start for 45mins + question time. Place The Co-op Building
July 7 Malcolm Traill; History of Maritime Albany
July 14 Darren Russel; Amity Replica maintenance
July 21 Lawrence Cuthbert; History of Albany Maritime Foundation
July 28 Ian Forsyth; History of Forsyth family in connection with Albany
July 30 Ian Forsyth; lecture at the Albany Library about George Forsyth, the first Harbour Master of WA.
For more information:-
Early History of Albany boat building