Gifts & souvenirs
The shop is a treasure trove of small inexpensive nautical gifts - souvenirs, cards, posters, model lighthouses and ships, tide clocks and much more.
DVDs
Our range changes as new nautical titles become available
- The Couta Boat - unique to Queenscliff and the coast of Victoria
- Trading Ketches of South Australia
- The Last of the Cape Horners - the end of the great sailing ship era
- Trading out of Hobart - an oral history on film
- Just in - Fishy Tales 2015 (relive this fabulous night in the comfort of your own home)
Audio CDs
CDs in stock include:
- The Loch Ard Story
- Sea shanties with Danny Spooner
Books
The shop holds an extensive range of maritime books and publications about:
- 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
- Books by the late Jack Loney who wrote extensively on the maritime history of Victoria and the shipwreck coast
- Lighthouses
- The Queenscliff couta boats
- Lifeboats
- Rescues and heroic tales
- Immigrant ships
- Passenger ferries
- Windjammers
Some children's book 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