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The 'Huddersfield' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Huddersfield', 174 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 3 mast schooner (later with aux. engines) 174 gross, 125 net tons. ON136456, 107.3 x 27.0 x 8.0. Built 1919 J Dent, Jervis Bay, NSW. Aux. engine 23hp, fitted early 1924. Owners: S Moore, registered Sydney later 1923/early 1924. Boucaut Bay Co. Ltd. Broken up and register cancelled November 1929].
Shipping at Sydney, schooner 'Vale', barque 'Altcar' and barque 'Brunette'
Shipping at Sydney in the 1880's with the schooner 'Vale', and barques 'Altcar' and 'Brunette.' [Brunette iron 3 mast barque, 382 gross, ON? 141.0 x 25.3 x 15.6. Built 1859 Chas. Lungley, Deptford (London) sold foreign and renamed Pride of the West, returns to British owners at Glasgow in 1870 reverts to original name 1870 - GR Dibbs, reg. Sydney: June 1880 John Frazer: March 1881, JC Ellis: 1890 TH Holdship and hulked. Jan 1892 McIlwraith, MacEacharn Ltd. Towed to sea and scuttled, register closed in 1913. Always a collier whilst in Australian ownership] ['Vale' = wooden 2 mast topsail schooner, 65 tons. ON74888. 76.0 x 18.9 x 7.0. Built 1876 John Burrell and Josiah Quiggen, Crookhaven, NSW. J O'Dwyre and J Berril, rergistered Sydney; 1878/9 Robert Langley; April 1897 SM Nielson, registered Port Adelaide. Wrecked off Cape Borda, SA, Feb. 26, 1900]. Sydney Town Hall is on the horizon so this is somewhere on Darling Harbour West.
Sydney Harbour from Neutral Bay on the North Shore
View of Sydney Harbour from Neutral Bay on the North Shore, looking south.
The 'Jane Moorhead' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Jane Moorhead'. 49 tons, in an unidentified harbour.
The 'Rahra' in an unidentified port
The wooden schooner 'Rahra', 93 tons, in an unidentified port [wooden schooner, later auxiliary engined: 93 gross, 80 net tons, ON131527. 93.5 x 23.0 x 6.8. Built 1912 Lake Macquarie, NSW. Oil engine 40bhp. Owners: Rahra Co. Ltd, registered Melbourne: c.1918 Bridport and Flinders Island Shipping Co. Ltd: c.1928 WH Etchell: 1929 IH Carruthers, registered Suva. Wrecked Danger Island, October 1930].
The 'Prospero' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden brig 'Prospero', 198 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast brigantine, 198 tons, ON45273, 108.5 x 22.4 x 12.6. Built 1862 Jersey. Owners: 1869 Joseph Stone, Port Adelaide: Nov. 1872 briefly owned in Melbourne, returns Port Adelaide 1873 to S Pridmore and others, until sold 1881 to J Graves, registered Hobart. 1893 CG Warburton, Sydney coal factor, registered Sydney, hulked at Sydney about 1902].
The 'Alma Doepel' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Alma Doepel', 131 tons, in an unidentified harbour.
Orient Company's Wharf, Sydney, ship 'Southern Monarch'
Orient Company's Wharf, Sydney in the 1880's with the ship 'Southern Monarch'. Circular Quay South, looking north eat
The 'Lochiel' in an unidentified port
The wooden barquentine 'Lochiel', 227 tons, in an unidentified port [wooden 3 mast schooner (officially) caption says brigantine, 227 tons, ON65361. 113.4 x 24.1 x 12.6. Built 1875 Stephen and Forbes, Peterhead. Came to Brisbane owners from Peterhead in 1883. Donkin and Howes, registered Brisbane Oct. 1886 to owners in Bundaberg, Queensland. Finally owned by Charles E Young. Broken up in 1907. Whilst in Australia usually associated with the labour trade supplying native labourers to the Queensland sugar plantations].
Shipping at Darling Harbour, schooner 'Jessie Kelly'
Shipping at Darling Harbour 1871, schooner 'Jessie Kelly'.
Shipping at Wooloomooloo Bay
Originally titled 'Shipping at Watson's Bay' a researcher has established that this is not "Watsons Bay", it's Woolloomooloo Bay, with Garden Island, when it was an Island, in the middle ground."
Dawes Point, Sydney, barque 'Gladstone' and ship 'Esmerelda'
Dawes Point, Sydney, 1887 with the barque 'Gladstone' and ship 'Esmerelda'.
Shipping at Sydney
Shipping at Campbells Cove (in Sydney Cove) in the 1870's, looking south.
The 'Amy Moir' wrecked near mouth of River Mersey, Tasmania
The wooden ketch 'Amy Moir', 71 tons, wrecked near mouth of River Mersey, Tasmania. [wood 2 mast ketch, 71 tons, ON93596, 80.3 x 23.2 x 6.2. built 1888 Rock Davis, Brisbane Water, NSW. Owners: Alexander Moir reg. Sydney: 1895 Rock Davis: 1897 AA Cooper, c. 1898 W. Cooper and G Swinburne (of Melbourne) reg. Melbourne 1902. Wrecked at Mersey Bluff, Tasmania, June 1906.]
The 'Mariner' wrecked
The wooden schooner 'Mariner', 61 tons, wrecked [wooden 2 mast schooner, 62 gross tons. Built 1867 Whangape, New Zealand and ashore many times. Illustration taken in 1902 at Leven River, Tasman. For full details see 'Sail in the South'].
The 'Federal' at Bramble Bay
The wooden schooner 'Federal', 96 tons, at Bramble Bay on the 13th February 1914 [wooden schooner 96 tons. ON112485, 99.1 x 23.6 x 7.7. Built 1900 Balmain (Sydney) owners John Hibbard and Son, registered Sydney. Burnt in the Turtle Group (off coast of North Queensland) June 22, 1914].
Shipping at Sydney, barque 'Metaris'
Shipping at Sydney in the 1870's, barque 'Metaris' with mizzen mast removed [wooden 3 mast barque, 244 tons, ON18486. 103.4 x 24.6 x 15.1. Built 1857. Sunderland for owners in Wisbeach. Sept. 1863 Thomas Chapman, registered Melbourne:May 1865 Messrs Merriman, registered Sydney: Jan. 1873 John Lyons: May 1881 AJ Lewington and register transferred to Hawaii.] A researcher has said that this is Darling Harbour, looking south-west with floating dock.
The 'Isabella' in an unidentified port
The wooden schooner 'Isabella', 36 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast schooner, 36 tons, ON53952. 64.3 x 19.1 x 4.9. Built 1864 HA Warneke Sandridge, Victoria.Owners: James Benella and partners, registered Melbourne. March 1869 - Robert Hutton; December 1869 John Hollowbred and partners; Sept. 1874 Thomas Watson; March 1875, GBB Elliott (Sawmiller, River Cam, Tasmania) Vessel stranded at Point Nepean, Victoria January 1876. Salvaged and repaired, re-registered at Melbourne in 1881 by F Keay and Chas. Coe. The vessel was broken up and register closed in 1917].
Unknown wooden ketch at Melbourne
Unknown wooden ketch at Melbourne.
Sydney from the ASN Patent Ship 'Pyrmont'
Sydney from the ASN Patent Ship 'Pyrmont' about 1865.
The 'Lady Darling' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Lady Darling'. 109 tons, in an unidentified harbour.
Lavendar Bay
Lavendar Bay looking towards Walsh Bay with a ferry at the wharf in the early 1880's.
Cuthbert's Shipyard, Sydney
Cuthbert's Shipyard, Sydney, January 1871.
Shipping at Sydney, 'Loch Fyne'
Shipping at Sydney, 1882, with the ship 'Loch Fyne' which vanished a few months later.
The 'Relic' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Relic', 113 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden schooner (topsail?) 113 gross, 100 net tons. ON117637. 95.4 x 23.9 x 7.7. Built 1903 H Dent, Jervis Bay, NSW. Owners J Dent, registered Sydney. 1905 to Hobart. Wrecked when struck a rock and foundered off Eddystone Point, April 1910].
The 'Marchioness of Lorne' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Marchioness of Lorne'. 78 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast topsail schooner, 78 tons. ON64373. 82.8 x 19.1 x 7.9. Built 1871 George Dent, junior, Jervis Bay, New South Wales. From January 1875 in the timber trade working out of Maryborough Queensland. Owner William Pettigrew and Co. Sank in the Mary River during floods in February 1893, and abandoned as a constructive total loss. See 'Port of Maryborough' by Parsons, 1976].
Yachting at Balmain
Yachting at Balmain, April 1888.
Sydney Harbour from Darling Point
Sydney Harbour from Darling Point, from left 'Transatlantic', 'Brilliant', 'Thermopylae'.
Panorama of Newcastle Harbour
Panorama view of Newcastle Harbour about 1885.
Shipping at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney
Shipping at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney in the late 1890's.