The RIG Maritime Collection

One day in the future, Independence will be complete and offering trips around the bay to school groups and the general public.   So what will RIG do with the Boathouse?

RIG plans to convert the Boathouse into a museum to show off the maritime history of Kangaroo Island and American River, and the process through which we went in constructing Independence. 

A RIG volunteer has commenced recording RIG's collection of artefacts, photographs and other items of significance.  Some of these items are held in physical storage at RIG but photographic records are stored in an online catalogue accessible to the public, while the items are brought out for display as space permits.  

The aims of the RIG Maritime Collection are:

· to preserve our maritime heritage: even in the event of a fire the online collection will survive.
· to educate our community, young and old, in maritime culture: its skills, crafts, stories and art.
· to recognise and encourage the generosity of donors, and, over all,
· to inform our community and the wider world of American River’s rich maritime heritage.
There is no need to log in. Instructions on how to use and search the RIG Maritime Collection are in the Curator’s report for August 2021.

Before the Collection was recorded online it existed in a cupboard, in private homes and on the RIG Boathouse walls. In the event of a fire the online collection unlike the physical collection will survive, to educate the curious, to reward the donors, and to remind us of American River’s maritime heritage.

The RIG Collection is available to the public at https://ehive.com/collections/200519/the-rebuild-independence-grouprig-collection

There is no need to log in. Instructions on how to use/search the RIG Collection are in the Curator’s report for August 2021.

The Collection is also available in the Australian National Library Collection, Trove at
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/images?keyword=nuc%3ASRIG