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Gunboat, "The Protector"
Gunboat, "The Protector" at Port Adelaide. HMCS Protector had been commissioned by the South Australian government and arrived in Adelaide in September 1884. She remained in active service with the South Australian forces, including a role in subduing the Boxer Rebellion, until she was transferred to the Commonwealth in 1901. For her size she was an exceptionally heavily armed vessel. To conserve fuel (coal) she was originally rigged as a topsail schooner.
Port Adelaide
Looking from an elevated position up Commercial Road, Port Adelaide. J.T. Hood's Commercial Hotel is prominent on the left.
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide, showing the new dock and swing bridge entrance.
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide, showing the 'Company's Basin' and swing bridge entrance.
New Dock, Port Adelaide
The new dock at Port Adelaide with the 'Mallsgate' at anchor. Reputedly a fast ship, she was an iron barque built by R.Williamson & Son at Harrington in 1877. On the 21st July 1889, a few days out from Newcastle, NSW, Australia, bound for San Francisco with a coal cargo, she was wrecked on the Middleton Reef. All the crew survived.
New Dock, Port Adelaide
New dock, Port Adelaide with the "Waimate" at anchor. A fine iron clipper, she was launched from Blumer's Yard at Sunderland in 1874, and was considered the number one ship of the New Zealand Shipping Company's fleet. After a distinguished career she was sold in 1896 to the Russians and renamed Valkyrian. Sadly, in 1899 she sailed from Newcastle, N.S.W., with a coal cargo for Iquique, Chile, and was never heard of again.
New Dock, Port Adelaide
New dock, at Port Adelaide. The 'Oriana', is on the left, and the 'Collingrove', owned by Sir Thomas Elder, is on the right. A lady is seated on the wharf, looking out at the ships.
Gunpowder Magazine, Port Adelaide
Gunpowder Magazine, Port Adelaide.
North Parade, Port Adelaide
[General description] Buildings, inlcuding the Customs House, on North Parade and Wharf, Port Adelaide. John Whallin's Port Hotel is seen on the right. The ship at the wharf is the 'Royal Tar' which carried immigrants from Australia to Paraguay to form a utopian socialist colony. The 'Royal Tar' was a three-masted barque of 598 tons, built by John Campbell Stuart on the banks of the Nambucca River, New South Wales, and was the largest colonial-built ship up to the end of the 19th century. [On back of photograph] 'Port Adelaide / December 25, 1893 / Looking at North Parade and Queen's Wharf / Customs House on left / The 'Royal Tar' at the wharf / About to make her second voyage to Montevideo with 'New Australian' people / Sailed January 1st, 18 94'.
McLaren Parade Port Adelaide
[General description] Shipping at McLaren Wharf with buildings including the Wharf Hotel (licensee H. Goddard) in the background. This cluster of small sailing ships is probably some of the ketches, known affectionately as the 'Mosquito Fleet' which plied around South Australian coastal waters. The one in the right foreground is named 'Tam O'Shanter. [On back of photograph] 'McLaren Parade and Wharf / Port Adelaide / 1892-98 / The Wharf Hotel is on the west corner of Todd Street'.
Queens Wharf, Pt. Adelaide
[General description] Horse-power moving cargo on a busy Queen's Wharf where moored ships are both steam and sail. Warehouses and city buildings are seen on the left. [On back of photograph] 'Queens Wharf / Pt. Adelaide / North Parade Wharf is in the distance / About 1906'.
North Parade, Port Adelaide
[General description] This is a tinted postcard view looking along North Parade with busy Queen's Wharf in the foreground. A tugboat lies next to a moored steamer.
Fletcher's Slip, Birkenhead
This patent slip, the first one in South Australia, was shipped out to the colony in by the South Australian Company in 1837 but some years passed before Henry Cruickshank Fletcher aquired and installed it- it was a working slip from 1851, providing an indispensable service to local and visiting shipping. The business grew and Mr. Fletcher became a wealthy man with a great deal of influence in the Port. [On back of photograph] 'Fletcher's Slip, Pt. Adelaide / March 24, 1896 / Fletcher's slip is situated on the Birkenhead side of the river, opposite Prince's Wharf at the west corner of Fletcher Street'.
Port Adelaide
[General description] This composite view shows shipping moored at Port Adelaide, the ships being named on the photograph. [On back of photograph] 'About 1872 / Looking West across the Port River from Copper Co's wharf / Names of vessels (left to right): 'White Eagle' (stern only); 'Adelaide', schooner (on the inside, against wharf ); 'Fairy Rock' (on outside, against the Adelaide); 'Ella Gladstone', brig'.
Port Elliot
The sea tumbles in between the rocks on the seashore at Port Elliot.
Breakwater, Port Elliot
The wharf and breakwater at Port Elliot, showing the old Government warehouse erected in 1853.
Railway Station, Port Elliot
[General description] Passengers wait for the train to steam into the station. [On back of photograph] 'Port Elliot Railway Station / 1901 / The gabled building shown on the extreme right is the original tramway station which was erected in about 1864'.
West Coast Mail Van
[General description] A team of four hard-worked horses harnessed to the mail van stand in front of the Post and Telegraph Office at Port Lincoln. [On back of photograph] 'West Coast horsedrawn Mail Van, Pt Lincoln / 1907' : No copying without permission from the State Library.
"R.M.S. Rupara", Port Lincoln
[General description] The R.M.S. 'Rupara' at Port Lincoln. She has steam coming from her funnel and flags flying from her rigging. She was a steel single screw steamship built in 1906 by Leslie & Co, Hebburn-on-Tyne, Newcastle. She was designed for the Spencer Gulf trade, Adelaide - Port Lincoln in an express passenger and mail service. She steamed from Port Lincoln, across the Spencer Gulf to Wallaroo, and returned to Port Adelaide via Port Lincoln. [On back of photograph] "S.S. Rupara' / At Port Lincoln / 1907'.
Babbage's Castle, St. Mary's
[General description] Babbage's Castle, when newly built, was described in the papers as 'part Arabian nights, part Grimm's fairytales'. It will soon start falling down due to rampant salt damp caused by its flawed concrete construction. In this view it already shows signs of deterioration. By 1930 it will be a romantic ruin to be demolished by developers. [On back of photograph] 'Babbage's Castle / St. Mary's / On Section 41, south of Daw's Road / See A 845 for historical note'.
Seacliff Beach
Seacliff beach, showing Kingston Park in the distance. The two [Norfolk Island] pine trees were planted by the Kingston family and in 1995 were still present in the Kingston Park caravan park. The point in the background is Marino Rocks.
Jetty at Semaphore
Holidaymakers on the jetty at Semaphore.
Jetty at Semaphore
Semaphore jetty & baths. The baths run perpendicular to the end of the long jetty. A small raised band stand is situated on the foreshore adjacent to the beach.
Roman Catholic College Sevenhill
[General description] This three storey local stone building, viewed from the side/ rear, was the first Catholic boarding school in South Australia, established around the same time as the Church. It also served as a seminary, novitiate and retreat centre. There is a vegetable garden in the foreground. [On back of photograph] 'Roman Catholic College, Sevenhill / 1902'.
St. Aloysius church, Sevenhill
[General description' This Gothic Revival Church is built from local stone. It has a Welsh slate roof and Mintaro slate floors and impressive stained glass windows designed by parish priest Father Paul Cleary. It was consecrated in 1866 well before its completion in 1875 (as illustrated here- the southern transept was not completed until 1997). [On back of photograph] 'St. Aloysius' Roman Catholic Church / Sevenhill / 1902'.
Chateau Tanunda
Chateau Tanunda, built of locally quarried bluestone from Bethany was designed to resemble Baviarian households of the 1850s to 1870s. It was built in 1890 and has some of the oldest vines in the Barossa Valley growing nearby.
Colonel Light's cottage
Colonel Light's cottage, Thebarton.
Tusmore Park
[General description] Gates and avenue of gumtrees at Tusmore. The gateposts are at the entrance of 'Tusmore Park', the property of William Rogers who set up and ran the successful 'Tusmore Farm' nearby. [On back of photograph] 'Tusmore Gate / Tusmore Park / About 1898 / Situated on the north side of Greenhill Road, between Northumberland Street and Tusmore Avenue. When the property was subdivided in about 1912, the gate and the avenue of gums were allowed to remain; they are still standing in 1938'.
Weir, Torrens Gorge
The weir at Torrens Gorge.
Aqueduct, Torrens Gorge
The aqueduct at Torrens Gorge.