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Hobart in the 1860's
Hobart in the 1860's. View showing old Princes Wharf with early Battery Point in the background. Some of the homes still stand.
Vessel 'Amelia J' being built
'Amelia J' being built 1918.
Shipping at Hobart in the 1890's
Shipping at Hobart in the 1890's.
'Annie Hill' wooden schooner
'Annie Hill' wooden schooner 121 tons. [wooden 2 mast schooner, 128 gross, 121 net tons. ON57569, 89.6 x 22.5 x 10.0. Built 1876 R. Hill, Huon River, Tasmania. Owners R. Hill registered Hobart Town. 1878 WS Waterson, registered Invercargill, 1901 William Cook, 1917 JR Webb, 1918 JM Robertson, 1919 A & RC Miller, 1922 Boy Scouts Association and renamed 'Sea Scout'. Fate unknown, but the vessel became a coal hulk c.1917 or perhaps earlier.]
'Helen' wooden barque
'Helen' wooden barque 343 tons served as a whaler and trader [wooden 3 mast barque, ON49280, 343 tons, 135.3 x 25.3 x 15.8. Built 1864 R Steele, Greenock. Owners: JB Watt, registered Sydney. March 1867 Charles Bayley, registered Hobart Town. June 1867 Charles Bayley and Alex McGregor. Jan. 1873 Bayley, McGregor and George M Evans. Aug. 1885 Alex McGregor. c.1901 Cowper & Taylor. 1913 (Oct) Victorian Lighterage Co. Ltd., registered Melbourne and hulked] NB: this photograph is identified as Offley/Offly in Crowther Collection by G Broxam in correspondence to Ronald H Parsons in June 1989.
'Countess of Ranfurly' wooden schooner
'Countess of Ranfurly wooden schooner 198 tons. [wooden three mast aux. schooner. 198 gross, 153 net tons. ON102338. 112.7 x 25.1 x 10.8. Built 1901 Lane and Brown, Whangaroa, NZ. Aux. oil engine. Owners Government of New Zealand, registered Auckland. 1907 GLS Kerr, Island trader, Sydney. 1909 Kerr Bros. Ltd., Sydney. Wrecked at the Isle of Pines, March 31, 1910]
'Fairy Queen' wooden brigantine
'Fairy Queen' wooden brigantine 214 tons [wooden 2 mast brigantine, 214 tons. ON45206, 111.4 x 24.5 x 13.4. Built Aberdeen Scotland, 1863. Owners: 1867 Henry Cook, registered London; March 1872 JG Punch of Sydney, registered Melbourne: May 1872 George Nipper. Wrecked at Timaru New Zealand August 27, 1873]
'Helen' wooden barque
'Helen' wooden barque 343 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, ON49280, 343 tons, 135.3 x 25.3 x 15.8. Built 1864 R Steele, Greenock. Owners: JB Watt, registered Sydney. March 1867 Charles Bayley, registered Hobart Town. June 1867 Charles Bayley and Alex McGregor. Jan. 1873 Bayley, McGregor and George M Evans. Aug. 1885 Alex McGregor. c.1901 Cowper & Taylor. 1913 (Oct) Victorian Lighterage Co. Ltd., registered Melbourne and hulked]
'Eunice' wooden schooner
'Eunice' wooden schooner 171 tons [wooden 3 mast topsail schooner, 190 gross tons, 171 net tons. ON102343. 110.4 x 27.5 x 7.2. Built 1902 DM Darroch, Big Omaha, New Zealand in 1915 converted into steamship = 188 gross tons, 129 net tons. Wrecked at the mouth of the Wanganui River, New Zealand. Sept. 26, 1917. Owners:AB Donald, registered Auckland; 1907 Joseph Mandl; 1908 TH Kerr, registered Lyttelton; 1908 JW Brownlee; 1916 Christchurch Meat Co. Ltd]
'Helen' wooden barque
'Helen' wooden barque 343 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, ON49280, 343 tons, 135.3 x 25.3 x 15.8. Built 1864 R Steele, Greenock. Owners: JB Watt, registered Sydney. March 1867 Charles Bayley, registered Hobart Town. June 1867 Charles Bayley and Alex McGregor. Jan. 1873 Bayley, McGregor and George M Evans. Aug. 1885 Alex McGregor. c.1901 Cowper & Taylor. 1913 (Oct) Victorian Lighterage Co. Ltd., registered Melbourne and hulked]
'Huia' wooden schooner
'Huia' wooden schooner 200 tons [wooden sailing vessel, later fitted with auxiliary engines. Originally: wood, 2 mast schooner, ON102268, 204 gross, 196 net tons. Built 1894 J Barbour, Aratapu, Kaipara, New Zealand, 115.1 x 25.2 x 11.5. Alt. 1898 - re-rigged as topsail schooner, and an aux. engine installed - 80bhp oil engine by Union Gas Eng. Co. San Francisco and 224 gross, 200 net tons. Re-engined in 1922 and now measured 251 gross, 166 net tons. Re-engined in 1931. Topsails removed in 1945. Owners: E Mitchelson and Brothers, registered Auckland. 1900 George McKenzie (and sometimes others), Kaipara. 1912 Nobel Explosives Co. of Glasgow, registered Auckland. 1925 Nobel (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. 1950 Huia Trading Co. registered Suva. Wrecked on Komekame Reef off Cape Queen Charlotte, New Caledonia bound Noumea-Vila. See 'The Log of the Huia' by CW Hawkins, Collins, New Zealand]
Shipping,Port Pirie about 1910
Shipping, Port Pirie about 1910
SS 'Governor Musgrave' at Port Victoria 1909
SS 'Governor Musgrave' at Port Victoria 1909.
'Northern Chief' wooden barque
'Northern Chief' wooden barque 263 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 287 gross, 274 net tons. ON87545, 125.0 x 27.4 x 12.2. Built 1886 Richard Mackay, Auckland. Altered October 1895 = 287 gross, 263 net tons. Owned in Auckland all her life and lastly by J Burns and Co. Ltd. Registered closed with 'Broken up' in January 1929]
Edithburgh jetty about 1900
Edithburgh jetty about 1900. Barque 'Southern Belle', SS 'Warooka'.
'Flying Childers'
'Flying Childers' wooden barque 230 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, whaler, 230 tons. ON32021, 96.4 x 23.5 x 13.4. Built 1846 John Watson, Hobart Town, VDL. Owners: John Watson, registered Hobart Town. June 1847 George Watson, May 1851 Askin Morrison, March 1860 James; Alexander and JG McGregor, April 1861 Alex and John Gibson McGregor. Wrecked at Port Davey, Tasmania, June 16, 1877]
'Alexa' steel barquentine
'Alexa' steel barquentine 286 tons.
'Venus' wooden schooner
'Venus' wooden schooner 38 tons [Note from Parsons: 'caption says schooner of 38 tons. There was never a schooner of this description owned in New Zealand.There was a ketch built 1877, 38 tons, ON75132 that was re-rigged as a cutter in 1887, and reconverted to a 2 mast ketch in 1891. She was broken up in 1922]
'Swift' wooden ketch
'Swift' wooden ketch 23 tons [wooden 2 mast ketch, 23 tons, ON105686, 53.4 x 15.4 x 4.7. Built 1900. Hobart. T&J Underwood, registered Hobart. Later an aux. motor installed and now 24 gross tons, 20 net tons]
Shipping at Port Augusta in the 1890s
Shipping at Port Augusta in the 1890s.
'Kassa' wooden barque
'Kassa' wooden barque 287 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 325 tons, later 287 tons. ON55310, 125.1 x 25.1 x 12.6. Built 1868 (8) Esnouf and Mauger, Jersey. Owners: Edward Esnouf, registered Jersey. 1873 William Wells, registered Port Adelaide. July 1874 William Lee Murrell. registered Melbourne. January 1877 Robert Harper. December 1883 ET Miles (of Hobart) November 1884 TM Fisher and others , registered Hobart]
'Ysabel' wooden 3 masted schooner
'Ysabel' wooden 3 masted schooner 176 tons [auxiliary s.s. missionary vessel of 1874 was sold for commercial purposes in 1893 and converted into a pure sailing ship was renamed 'Ysabel' q.v.] [possibly previously the 'Southern Cross'] [formerly the missionary vessel 'Southern Cross' sold into private ownership in 1893 and renamed. Wooden 3 mast schooner, 148 tons, later 176 gross, 148 net tons. ON66578. 107.1 x 21.2 x 11.8. Built (as auxiliary steamship) 1874 Thomas Niccol, North Shore, Auckland. Engine removed 1893. Owners: Jessie Ross and partners, registered Auckland April 1893; 1916 George H Scales, who in that year formed GH Scales Ltd. and in 1921 GH Scales Pacific Ltd. Vessel sold to Tahiti in 1925 and was lost by fire at Makemo, Tuamotu Island, Sept. 16, 1926]
Vessels 'Helen', 'Asia' and 'Wild Wave' at Hobart
'Helen' wooden barque 343 tons whaler, 'Asia' wooden barque 308 tons whaler, 'Wild Wave' wooden barque 223 tons trader, at Hobart. ['Asia' = wooden three mast barque, whaler ON10251. 308 tons, 123.0 x 25.7 x 14.7. Built 1859 (7) Cochar, Montrose (Forfarshire) Owners: originally owned in Arbroath. March 1870 A. McGregor, S. Kennedy and J. Bayley, registered Hobart. Sept. 1880 Alex McGregor and James Bayley. Dec. 1895 GR Greenwood registered Auckland. 1898 D. Sheehy registered Sydney (and made into a hulk) 1901 Lever Bros. Ltd.] [wooden 3 mast barque, ON49280, 343 tons, 135.3 x 25.3 x 15.8. Built 1864 R Steele, Greenock. Owners: JB Watt, registered Sydney. March 1867 Charles Bayley, registered Hobart Town. June 1867 Charles Bayley and Alex McGregor. Jan. 1873 Bayley, McGregor and George M Evans. Aug. 1885 Alex McGregor. c.1901 Cowper & Taylor. 1913 (Oct) Victorian Lighterage Co. Ltd., registered Melbourne and hulked]
'Thomas and Henry' wooden brigantine
'Thomas and Henry' wooden brigantine 215 tons [wooden 2 mast brigantine, 234 tons, 91.2 x 22.0 x 14.4. Later remeasured = 215 tons, 94.9 x 23.7 x 14.3. ON40352. Built 1850 Alexander Newton and William Malcolm, Manning River, NSW. Owners: originally owned in Sydney; April 1954 John Jones, Dunedin, registered Dunedin; 1869 William Isaac, Dunedin; 1872 Messers Clark, Dunedin; 1875 W Guthrie and partners; 1878 Guthrie and Larnarch's NZ Timber and Woodware Factories Ltd.; 1883 John Mill, stevedore, Dunedin. Ship broken up and register closed April 1924]
Shipping, Port Victoria 1920
Shipping, Port Victoria 1920. SS 'Excelsior', barque 'Toni' and schooners 'MacIntyre' and 'Rooganah'.
Shipping, Port Pirie 1908
Barque 'Meinwen' and ketch 'Spindrift' at Port Pirie about 1912. Date is January 1908. From records of Port Pirie Harbors Board.
'Helen' wooden barque
'Helen' wooden barque 343 tons discharging 150 tons of whale oil at Hobart [wooden 3 mast barque, ON49280, 343 tons, 135.3 x 25.3 x 15.8. Built 1864 R Steele, Greenock. Owners: JB Watt, registered Sydney. March 1867 Charles Bayley, registered Hobart Town. June 1867 Charles Bayley and Alex McGregor. Jan. 1873 Bayley, McGregor and George M Evans. Aug. 1885 Alex McGregor. c.1901 Cowper & Taylor. 1913 (Oct) Victorian Lighterage Co. Ltd., registered Melbourne and hulked]
'Southern Cross' wooden barquetine
'Southern Cross' wooden barquentine 257 tons [wooden barquentine (ex-auxiliary steamer) 291 gross, 257 net tons. ON98988, 131.0 x 26.6 x 14.2. Built 1891 (5) Forrest and son, Wyevenhoe. Originally a steam yacht built for missionary purposes by Missions to the South Pacific. Sold for commerical purposes and converted to a sailing ship in 1904. Owners 1909 = Ivan Nelson and GJ Robertson, registered Sydney; c.1913 RF Davidson, John Hay and E Taylor; c.1916 G Dunkley, registered Hobart who in 1918 transferred registration to Melbourne. Missing. Left Melbourne Sept. 11, 1920 for Hobart, with a cargo of case oil and is believed to have taken fire, exploded and lost with all hands]
'May' wooden barquentine
'May' wooden barquentine 237 tons [wooden 3 mast schooner, 243 gross, 237 net tons. ON62536. 114.7 x 25.1 x 12.8. Built 1869 Robert Price and Son. Southwick, Co. Durham (Sunderland) Owners: Thomas Potts, registered Sunderland. 1872 Walter Turnbull, registered Wellington; 1886 JH Cock (Nelson) and N Reid (Wellington); 1888 AW Mackay, registered Sydney; Nov. 1889 NCA Young, sugar planter Bundaberg, registered Brisbane; March 1897 Union SS of New Zealand Ltd., with the intention of converting to a hulk but sold for further commerical use; Oct. 1898 John Harrison, Aratapu, registered Auckland. Wrecked about 17 miles south of Kaipara Harbour New Zealand Oct. 17, 1902]
Fishing boats at Port Lincoln in the 1890s
Fishing boats at Port Lincoln in the 1890s.