HMAS Buffalo Replica - Glenelg. SA
The first settlers to the New Colony of South Australia, including Governor Hindmarsh as captain, arrived at Glenelg on the HMS "Buffalo" on December 28th. 1836 after leaving Portsmouth in July.
The original Buffalo was built in Calcutta in 1813 and this replica was constructed from Admiralty plans of the original at a cost of $1.5 million. Totally authentic, it includes navigation maps, extracts from log books, original diary notes, sketches and photographs to tell the tale of the voyage and the people involved.
In the early 1980s local vintner and entepreneur, Wolf Blass built this full scale replica of the ship on the banks of the Patawalonga which operates as a restaurant with an historic museum of photographs and memorabilia releting to the ship and the people who came on it.
HMAS Buffalo Replica - Glenelg. SA
The first settlers to the New Colony of South Australia, including Governor Hindmarsh as captain, arrived at Glenelg on the HMS "Buffalo" on December 28th. 1836 after leaving Portsmouth in July.
The original Buffalo was built in Calcutta in 1813 and this replica was constructed from Admiralty plans of the original at a cost of $1.5 million. Totally authentic, it includes navigation maps, extracts from log books, original diary notes, sketches and photographs to tell the tale of the voyage and the people involved.
In the early 1980s local vintner and entepreneur, Wolf Blass built this full scale replica of the ship on the banks of the Patawalonga which operates as a restaurant with an historic museum of photographs and memorabilia releting to the ship and the people who came on it.