This site contains stories from people who called the New Hebrides home. Anyone who has an interest in the New Hebrides can share and add to our collective memories. Click "Submit a story" to find out how to add your adventures from the New Hebrides.
In conjunction with Neil’s new book, Vanuatu 1972 – 1981, we are seeking stories from anyone who called the New Hebrides home. These stories will be published on this site so that anyone w...Read More
By Peter Cole. [In 1970, Peter was working with two co-workers in a non-ferrous scrap metal yard in Mascot, Sydney.] One day the boss said that they were expecting a shipment of scrap from the Pacific...Read More
By Peter Cole. On the voyage down from Santo, Bill (Bill Martin) was training me to look after the engine. It was a lovely old Gardiner 8L3, quite elderly and burned a bit of oil along with the diesel...Read More
By Peter Cole. [Peter and the team undertook salvage dives on the SS President Coolidge on two occasions: for a month or so early in 1971 and for around six months (February to August) in 1972]. The s...Read More
By Peter Cole. [After their first stint on the President Coolidge, Peter and the team spent the following year doing salvage work at Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands, then on the Hatsuyuki at Bougainvi...Read More
By Peter Cole. My four months on Tanna could fill another book by itself. It was a lifestyle like nothing I had experienced before, or after for that matter. Bob (Paul)’s wife Kath was a delightfu...Read More
By Tim Foster To assist in their traffic policing duties the British and French Police had the shared use of a radar speed gun, the accuracy of which had to be checked and certified from time to time....Read More
By Tim Foster I seem to remember that in 1977 there were only four or five international flights per week into Bauer Field but I stand to be corrected. One of our pastimes was to go to the Airport and...Read More
By Tim Foster Geoff Holman, the British Engineer in the PWD Design office, was working on a project to construct a jetty in the North of Efate near Saama village. A jetty had been constructed there by...Read More
By Peter Robinson Over the two years that I worked for ANZ Bank in Vila there were some very interesting times to be had. One Saturday morning all the single guys were dragged out of their beds by the...Read More
By Peter Robinson The first big event that occurred after I arrived in Port Vila in 1975 was the Annual Agricultural Show. It was a great event which included a street parade with various floats. One ...Read More