Kent Stewart, Author at Baird Maritime

December 30, 2020

REMINISCENCES | The best little shipyard in the world

Written by Kent Stewart on December 30, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Ausmarine - Passenger Vessels, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Ausmarine Vessel Reviews, Dry Cargo World, Ferries, Harbour Tugs and Operation, Icebreaking, Marine Research and Training, Ships (Naval), Work Boat World Features.

Carrington Slipways, “the best little shipyard in the world”. A phrase that I heard often from shipowners right through to the yard workers themselves. A family-owned ..

June 10, 2020

REMINISCENCES | On the wheat run with self-discharging bulk carrier North Esk

Written by Kent Stewart on June 10, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Dry Cargo World, Work Boat World Features.

In 1976 I was invited to join the North Esk in Newcastle. The local office instructed me to go down to the Western basin wheat berth to sign on. But when I arrived, there ..

March 20, 2020

REMINISCENCES | The Dockers of Australia

Written by Kent Stewart on March 20, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Port World, Work Boat World Features.

No history of Australian shipping would be complete without mention of one of its most notorious and colourful species, the ships painters and dockers. Formally known as ..

August 27, 2020

REMINISCENCES | The ship’s parrot

Written by Kent Stewart on August 27, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

This is a true story about a sea-going parrot. His name was Rocky and he sailed on the ANL’s Yarra River on the Weipa to Gladstone run in the 1970s. Never one to ruffle ..

May 27, 2020

COLUMN | A shipping puzzle [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on May 27, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Dry Cargo World.

Do fourteen ships constitute an industry? That’s my current tally of the number of ships in the Australian shipping industry. You can even name them all – the four ..

November 21, 2019

HISTORY | Australian shipping – the early days

Written by Kent Stewart on November 21, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Dry Cargo World, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

One winter’s night in 1889 the sleek new P&O mail steamer, Britannia was making her way up the east coast of Australia at a very respectable 15 knots when the mate ..

June 12, 2020

COLUMN | Running on empty [The Boroscope]

Written by Kent Stewart on June 12, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Tanker World.

What are a bunch of tankers doing anchored off Perth’s iconic Scarborough Beach? They’ve been out there for months. With my natural curiosity piqued, I started doing ..

April 24, 2020

REMINISCENCES | Australian shipping – the early days

Written by Kent Stewart on April 24, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Dry Cargo World, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

One winter night in 1889, the sleek new P&O mail steamer Britannia was making her way up the east coast of Australia, at a very respectable 15 knots, when the mate on ..

October 30, 2019

REMINISCENCES | Larrikinism 101

Written by Kent Stewart on October 30, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Dry Cargo World, Naval, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

Larrikin: a mischievous young person an uncultivated, rowdy but good natured person- a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political convention. A ..