Port Victoria Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in the Australian state of South Australia, located on the west coast of the Yorke Peninsula in Port Victoria. It is housed in the original general cargo shed which was brought out from England in kit form in 1877 and was erected at the landward end of the jetty. The jetty took seven months to build and was completed in January 1878. Household goods for the early settlers in the town and surrounding farmlands were brought by steamers from Port Adelaide and stored in the cargo shed until the settlers’ homes were completed. Overview[edit source] The first overseas sailing ship to arrive at Port Victoria was Cardigan Castle. It loaded 1800 tons of bagged grain and sailed to Europe in February 1879. By 1883, 23 sailing ships (windjammers) had anchored in the bay between Wardang Island and the mainland, some visiting more than once. This was the beginning of the bagged grain trade between the Spencer Gulf ports and the markets of Europe. The town relied on the grain trade. Farmers, grain agents, lumpers (the men who handled the bagged grain), and their families were vital to this. From November onwards, the town bustled with activity as the grain was harvested and brought into the town. The bags of grain were built into huge stacks around the town to await the arrival of the sailing ships. When the ships arrived, the bags were taken down the jetty and loaded onto small ketches and schooners which took the grain to the large ships at anchor in the bay. The present-day museum has photographs, exhibits, and DVD presentations highlighting these times. Many of the sailing ships which came to Port Victoria in late 1920 sailed under the flag of Finland. The largest fleet of ships was owned by Gustaf Erikson, whose home port was Mariehamn on the island of Aland in Finland. With so many of his ships regularly visiting Port Victoria, the town became known to them as the Mariehamn of the South. In 1934, there were only 26 commercial sailing ships left in the world and 17 of them came to Port Victoria during that year. Cape Horner Sign at Port Victoria Maritime Museum The visits to these sailing ships and the life at sea of the crews are documented in the present-day museum. The journey from the port to Europe was