# The Allan E. Bax collection

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# The Allan E. Bax collection

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The Allan E. Bax collection comprises 19th century ships' logs and other documents relating to maritime history and shipping.

Allan E. Bax was President of the Royal Australian Historial Society in the late 1960s. This digitised collection is made up of a selection of the items about ships and shipping held in the Library's Rare Books and Special Collections that belonged to Bax.

The Bax collection includes 19th century ships' logs, midshipman's diaries, a ship's commission, typescripts of 2 books and unrelated miscellaneous documents.

This digitised collection includes a photograph album of the last whaling ship in Australia, the Costa Rica Packet, Thomas Parkin's photographic album, a passenger's account of several ships in the late 19th Century, and an untitled manuscript diary from Colonel Parkins Hearle from 1896.

[The full Rare Books and Special Collections finding aid is available here](https://www.library.sydney.edu.au/collections/rare-books/downloads/Bax%20finding%20aid.pdf)

Collection Summary19th century ships' logs and other documents relating to maritime history and shipping.

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Untitled manuscript diary by Colonel Parkins Hearle, written into Letts's Australasian Almanac and Diary for 1896](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13646)

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Ship's signals](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13645)

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Ships of the Mercantile Marine and Master Mariners No. 2](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13644)

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Passenger's account. Clipper Ship Sobraon, 1890-1891 ; SS Waichora, 1891 ; Royal MailSteamship Coptic, 1891. Vol. 2](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13643)

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Passenger's account. Clipper Ship Sobraon, 1890-1891 ; SS Waichora, 1891 ; Royal MailSteamship Coptic, 1891. Vol. 1](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13642)

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Ships & shippings. No. 1.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13641)

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[WHALING] Photograph album of relating to the Costa Rica Packet](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13639)

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Thomas Parkin's photograph album](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13638)

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*The Allan E. Bax collection*. University of Sydney Library, accessed 23/03/2026, https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/13640