PRG 1373 • Find • State Library of South Australia

The 'Cuthonia' in an unidentified harbour

c. 1906, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/50

The wooden barquentine 'Cuthonia', 214 tons, in an unidentified harbour [note from Edwardes = 'I find no evidence of a vessel of this description registered in Australia. A vessel of this name and tonnage and rig was built in 1878 and up till the late 1890's was owned in Bo'ness, Scotland'].

Shipping at Darling Harbour, schooner 'Jessie Kelly'

1871, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/7

Shipping at Darling Harbour 1871, schooner 'Jessie Kelly'.

Shipping at Wooloomooloo Bay

c. 1870, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/22

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'

1887, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/39

Dawes Point / Walsh Bay viewed from McMahons / Blues Point, Sydney, 1887 with the barque 'Gladstone' and ship 'Esmerelda'.

The 'Hally Bayley' in an unidentified port

c. 1906, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/57

The wooden schooner 'Hally Bayley', 92 tons, in an unidentified port [wooden 2 mast schooner, 113 gross 92 net tons. ON57501. 90.7 x 22.0 x 9.0. Built 1869 Hobart Town. Owners: L Alexander McGregor, registered Hobart Town. May 1882 TG Kelly, registered Sydney. 1895 Charles T Metcalfe, 1903. S&D Sheehy and converted to a hulk].

Shipping at Sydney

c. 1870, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/20

Shipping at Campbells Cove (in Sydney Cove) in the 1870's, looking south.

The 'Amy Moir' wrecked near mouth of River Mersey, Tasmania

1906, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/48

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.]

Shipping at Darling Harbour, barque 'Kate Conley'

1871, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/8

Shipping at Darling Harbour 1871, barque 'Kate Conley' [wooden 3 mast barque, 154 tons, ON59525, 123.6 x 20.5 x 8.4. Built 1869 Macleay River, NSW. Owners: D Mackinley, registered Sydney. January 1870 John Glen, registered Melbourne. May 1872 Messrs. Glenn (of Greymouth, NZ) August 1873 William Sloane and RJ Jeffray. Missing in a cyclone March 1878 off coast of Queensland when on a voyage from Cairns to Sydney]

The 'Mariner' wrecked

c. 1911, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/78

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

1914, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/46

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'

c. 1870, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/21

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

c. 1869, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/37

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

c. 1911, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/95

Unknown wooden ketch at Melbourne.

Sydney from the ASN Patent Ship 'Pyrmont'

c. 1865, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/4

Sydney from the ASN Patent Ship 'Pyrmont' about 1865.

The 'Lady Darling' in an unidentified harbour

c. 1911, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/92

The wooden schooner 'Lady Darling'. 109 tons, in an unidentified harbour.

Lavendar Bay

c. 1880, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/29

Lavendar Bay looking towards Walsh Bay with a ferry at the wharf in the early 1880's.

Cuthbert's Shipyard, Sydney

1871, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/6

Cuthbert's Shipyard, Sydney, January 1871.

Shipping at Sydney, 'Loch Fyne'

1882, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/37

Shipping at Sydney, 1882, with the ship 'Loch Fyne' which vanished a few months later.

The 'Relic' in an unidentified harbour

c. 1911, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/71

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 'Wortanna' in an unidentified harbour

c. 1911, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/74

The iron schooner 'Wortanna', 213 tons, in an unidentified harbour [built as the iron paddle steam tug 'Albatross', sold and renamed Dec. 1918 and converted - iron auxiliary schooner, 213 gross, 163 net tons. ON74654, 131.4 x 21.1 x 10.4. Built 1875 Barclay, Curle and Co. Glasgow. 1918 = 8 cyl oil engine. Owners: WJ Wardle (Adelaide), registered Mlebourne; 1918 Frank A Verco; 1920 Victor Reeves (Hobart); 1921 Cairns Timber Ltd.; June 1922 Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd. and altered into a sugar lighter. Requisitioned by US Forces in WW2. Then returned to owners, no longer described as auxiliary schooner, but twin screw motor ship. Stranded near the entrance to Mourilyan Harbour, Queensland and declared a constructive total loss. See 'The Adelaide Line' by Parsons, July 1975].

The 'Marchioness of Lorne' in an unidentified harbour

c. 1911, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/94

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

1888, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/40

Yachting at Balmain, April 1888.

The 'Lady Mabel' in an unidentified port

c. 1869, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/42

The wooden brigantine 'Lady Mabel', 233 tons, in an unidentified port [wooden 2 mast brigantine rig, 233 gross, 195 net tons. ON5613. (Originally 223 gross, 215 net tons - remeasured 1897) 118.3 x 26.8 x 10.7. Built 1883 William W Cunnabell, Parrsboro' Nova Scotia. Owners: originally registered Parrsboro as 7 of 1883. In April 1889 John P Oakes, registered Auckland who in 1890 transferred the ship to Newcastle, NSW. Sold in April 1891 to Robert B Wallace: Dec. 1892 sold to Herbert and John Dawson (32) and Thomas Richards (32), registered Auckland; 1897 Joseph Westen, registered Sydney: who sells to Warburton and Sons. Sold to shipbreakers about 1918. Used as a collier, and probably later as a coal kulk, from at least 1897].

Sydney Harbour from Darling Point

c. 1870, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/28

Sydney Harbour from Darling Point, from left 'Transatlantic', 'Brilliant', 'Thermopylae'.

The 'Aldebaran'

c. 1911, Photograph, PRG 1373/31/84

The iron barque 'Aldebaran', 466 tons, in Woolwich on Sydney Harbour. [Iron 3 mast barque, 429t ON 106250, 150.9 x 27.3 x 15.9, Built 1869 Oswald & Co. Sunderland, as 'Concordia' for French owners, subsequently became German under the same name. i. 1899 - sold to Australia and renamed 'Aldebaran', owners Harrison Douglas & James, Smith, reg. Sydney 1912. sold Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd. and converted to a coal hulk for use in Hobart. Sold by them in April 1948, and used to form a breakwater at Dunalley near Hobart.] Photographed at Mort's Dock, Sydney. [Note from Ron Parsons - Hulk Concordia steel 1913. Ron Parsons cannot locate any vessel to fit this description (ie steel 1913) There was an iron hulk of this name in Fremantle (1076 tons) between 1913 - 1948].

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