Mosquito Fleet IV Documentary Trailer

In 1922, Milford Crouch began a shipping agency in Port Adelaide, joined in time by his son Reginald. Together they owned or managed many well known ketches and schooners of the South Australian Mosquito Fleet. This story is based around 16 and 8mm optical film, digital video and many early still images, and includes fascinating footage of raising the sunken schooner Milford Crouch. Descendants of Curley Joe & Blanch, one branch of the Simms family of Moonta Bay, became early professional fisherman, while another became ketch and schooner captains for M.B. Crouch & Company.
The documentary series is available for purchase through maritime museums and Boat Books Australia.