The Western Australian Museum Maritime History Department Collection

The focus of the Maritime History Collection is Western Australia's maritime history and heritage within the context of the Indian Ocean. The MH Collection, includes: watercraft (80) ranging from a tin canoe to an Oberon submarine and slipways (2), winch houses (2) and cranes (2); photographs and images (100,000); marine engines (70); materials representative of work, leisure and lifestyles (10,000); artworks (260); and oral histories (300). Major sub-collections include an Oberon submarine and associated slipways precinct; fishing, whaling, sealing, pearling, boat and shipbuilding, arrivals and departures, leisure, trade and cargoes, shipping, ports, immigration, migration and emigration, trade and cargoes, leisure, government maritime services, lifesaving, indigenous, Indian Ocean, ferry services, marine engineering, science and technology, maritime defence, navy, submarines.

本海事历史馆藏（Maritime History Collection）聚焦印度洋语境下西澳大利亚州的海事历史与文化遗产。该MH馆藏涵盖以下藏品品类：80件水上载具，品类跨度从锡制独木舟至奥伯龙级潜艇（Oberon submarine），另有2座造船滑道、2座绞车房与2台起重机；10万张照片与影像资料；70台船用发动机；1万件反映生产劳作、休闲娱乐与日常生活方式的实物藏品；260件艺术作品；以及300份口述历史记录。核心子馆藏包括奥伯龙级潜艇及其配套滑道区域；涵盖渔业、捕鲸业、海豹捕猎业、珍珠采集业、小艇制造与船舶修造业、抵离港记录、休闲海事活动、贸易与货运、航运业、港口事务、移民入境、国内迁移与海外移居、贸易与货运、休闲海事活动、政府海事服务、海上救生、原住民海事相关内容、印度洋海事事务、轮渡服务、船舶工程、科学技术、海事防务、海军事务以及潜艇相关主题。