Riječki, lošinjski i senjski jedrenjaci koncem 19. i početkom 20. stoljeća

The ship’s diaries of the sailing ships Stefano, Francesco Giuseppe I and Countess Hilda are samples of the most preserved sources about sailing ship’s voyages which can be found in the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Coast of Rijeka. The ship dairies of Francesco Giuseppe I. and Countess Hilda were partially researched during the writing of the book ‘How to Sail Cape Horn’, by Radojica Barbalić and Ivo Jurković in 1972. Diary – the notes of the Dubrovnik Dominican Brother, Stjepan Skurle about the events of the sinking of the Stefano and the survival of its castaways amongst the Aborigines in Australia were never completely translated from Italian into Croatian. The Maritime and History Museum has the only preserved manuscript about the Stefano although there is another sample of it in the USA by Gustav Rathe who is an ancestor from one castaway who survived from the Stefano. In the second part of this work, more attention is paid to the collection of sources of the Maritime and History Museum of Croatian Coast. This is related to the model of an Uskok ship, oil on canvas by the painter Bartol Ivanković which shows the sail ship Trojednica and another one by the same painter called Pošćićeva Flota which portrays the importance of the ship’s owner Pošćić and his role in the boat, Hervatska. These ships, each from their own time, kept sea connections from Senj to Rijeka waters. They are also an important source for research about the relations amongst shipbuilders and social, economic and cultural relations through the centuries.