Huskisson is a village in New South Wales, Australia in the City of Shoalhaven, on the shores of Jervis Bay.

Well into the C20th, members of what local settlers called 'the Jervis Bay tribe' lived on the bank of Currambene Creek.

[6][7][8][9] The 'Jervis Bay tribe' are also known as the Wandandian people,[10][11] They spoke Dharamba,[12] which was probably the northernmost dialect of the Dhurga language.

South Huskisson lay on land originally owned by Edward Deas Thompson[17] and was a ‘private town’.

That number does not include the many unregistered wooden-hulled vessels—such as small boats, punts, barges, and timber lighters—that were also built there during that period.

Until 1940, the town had no electricity; all vessels were built without power tools, other than a steam-operated saw-mill used to make planks.

[25] During the Second World War, the Huskisson shipyard built four wooden-hulled vessels for the American Army, for use in the New Guinea campaign.

After the war, the old shipbuilding techniques gave way to more modern methods and in later years most vessels built were wooden-hulled fishing trawlers.