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Shipping in the Portland Canal
Shipping in the Portland Canal, 1915, with the ship 'Colonna', 'S.S. Investigator', 'S.S. Warooka', the schooner 'Yatala' and the hulk 'Loch Tay' ['Colonna' = iron ship, 1499 tons, ON78785, 238.6 x 38.0 x 22.8. Built 1878 (4) Richardson, Duck and Co., Stockton. Owners: Thompson, Anderson and Co. (Sierra Shipping Co.) registered Liverpool. c.1902/3 sold Norway and became 'Colonna' and hulked at Port Adelaide 1914 for Adelaide Steamship Company. Towed to Albury 1917 to to used for coal hulk. Oct. 1952 towed to sea by tug 'Uco' to a position off Bald Head and sunk by RAAF for target practice]
Port Lincoln about 1930
Port Lincoln about 1930. Schooner 'Waimana'.
Shipping, Port Augusta, 27th September 1884
Shipping, Port Augusta 27th September 1884. Left panel: 'Thunderbolt', 'Jacobus Johannes', 'Duisdeer', 'Capella', 'Peri', 'Oaklands'. Right panel: 'Phillis'. 'Joliba', SS 'Investigator', SS 'Bengal', 'Prospero', 'Auckland', 'Beltana', 'City of Adelaide', 'Postboy'. [City of Adelaide = composite ship (later barque) 791 tons. ON50036, 176.8 x 33.2 x 18.8. Built 1864 (5). W. Pile and Co. Sunderland. Owners: Devitt and Moore, registered London. Usually employed in the South Australian trades and often loaded wool at Port Augusta. Became a Royal Naval hospital hulk, later an accommodation ship and was renamed Carrick from at least 1925. Given by the Royal Navy for use as a club ship by RNR and berthed in Scotland. See Ships of the Royal Navy, Vol. 1 JJ Colledge, David and Charles, 1969.]
Shipping, Port Augusta, 8th October 1888
Port Augusta 8th October 1888. From left; 'Rohilla', 'Oriana', SS 'Restitution', SS 'Afghan', SS 'Port Pirie'.
Shipping,Port Pirie, November 1900
Shipping, Port Pirie November 1900. 'Adele" iron barque 901 tons. 'Adelaide' iron steam paddlewheel tug 255 tons, 'Jeanne D'Arc' steel barque 1264 tons.
Shipping, Wallaroo January 1906
Shipping, Wallaroo January 1906. SS 'Kuranda', barque 'Oakhurst', ship 'Aristomene'. [Kuranda = steel twin screw steamship, ON94193, 928 gross, 585 net tons, 200.0 x 32.1 x 10.2. Built 1901 Gourlay Bros. and Co. Dundee for Australasian United Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Sold 1926 to Singapore, and broken up there in 1936. Built for the Townsville-Cairns mail and passenger service but in 1904-06 was chartered to Adelaide SS Co. for the Spencer Gulf trades. See 'Australian Coastal Passenger Ships' by Parsons, 1981]
Shipping, Wallaroo January 1906
Shipping, Wallaroo January 1906. Barque 'Oakhurst', ship 'Aristomene'.
Point Turton
Stenhouse Bay jetty about 1920.
Ketches at Coobowie
Ketches at Coobowie.
Edithburgh jetty about 1912
Edithburgh jetty about 1912. S.S. 'Warrawee', R.M.S. 'Rupara'.
Shipping at Edithburgh about 1908
Shipping at Edithburgh about 1908.
Victor Harbour
Victor Harbour. Ship 'Euphrosyne', barques 'Finland' and 'Inverneill'.
Vessel 'Fairy Rock' wooden snow
'Fairy Rock' wooden snow 192 tons as built.
'Zephyr' wooden brigantine
'Zephyr' wooden brigantine 135 tons [wood 2 mast brigantine, 135 tons, ON38812, 102.0 x 21.4 x 10.3. Built 1866 John Cuthbert, Sydney. Owners: May 1868 S Horne (Melbourne) and J Chesney (Hokitika) registered Melbourne. Aug. 1886 M Royse (Dunedin); Nov. 1890 etc.
'Kermandie' wooden schooner
'Kermandie' wooden schooner 343 tons [wooden aux. twin screw 4 mast schooner. 343 gross, 222 net tons. ON133495. 141.9 x 35.0 x 11.0. Built 1920 by CM McKay of Hobart (frequently reported to have been constructed on the Huon by McKay) eng. 70hp, later re-engined. Owners: Lune Timber and Trading Co. Ltd. Registered Hobart. Later Kermandie Shipping Co. Ltd. Kauri Timber Co. Ltd, registered Melbourne. Went aground on North Point Reef, 6 miles from Stanley ,Tasmania. On Sept. 6, 1952 and could not be refloated and she was sold to a scrap merchant who stripped her of everything valuable and demolished the wreck with explosives. Said to have been the last 4 masted sailing vessel in Australia when wrecked]
Shipping at Hobart
Shipping at Hobart 1865. 'King of Trumps', 'Lady Emma', 'Aladdin', 'Runnymede', SS 'Monarch' in foreground.
Shipping at New Wharf, Hobart
Shipping at New Wharf, Hobart . From right to left 'Ethel', 'Lufra', 'Helen', 'Runnymede', 'Waratah' centre-board barque.
Slipway at Hobart about 1905
Slipway at Hobart about 1905.
'Joseph Sims' wooden schooner
'Joseph Sims' wooden schooner 105 tons at St Helens (Tasmania).
'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]
'Jessie Nicol' and 'Falcon' wooden schooners
'Jessie Nicol' wooden schooner 93 tons and 'Falcon' wooden schooner 98 tons in Lyttleton Anniversary Schooner Race 1910 [Falcon = wooden 2 mast schooner, 98 tons, ON57585, 92.0 x 22.6 x 7.3. Built 1877 McKay and Cullen, Hobart. Owners: J McKay, registered Hobart Town. 1889: W&J Duncan, registered Wellington: 1897: JW and W Brownlee, registered Lyttelton: 1901: Jesse Brownlee and others. Stranded and became a total loss on the North Head, Raglan, New Zealand. Oct. 22, 1915]
'Medora' wooden schooner
'Medora' wooden schooner 33 tons. Schooner being broken up at Portobello Otago Harbour 1946.
'Zingara' wooden schooner
'Zingara' wooden schooner wrecked [wooden 3 masted topsail schooner, 211 gross, 184 net tons. ON122917. 128.1 x 33.1 x 6.2. 1908 converted to auxiliary steamer engine, 15 hp. 219 gross, 99 net tons. engines removed 1910 - 219 gross, 185 net tons. Altered Dec. 1919 to 219 gross, 90 net tons. Converted to twin screw auxiliary sailing vessel Sept. 1926 = 233 gross, 53 net tons, engine 220bhp. Owners: Jagger and Partners, registered Auckland; 1910 FA Sargeant, timber merchant Sydney; 1917 William Archibald; 1919 Winstone Ltd; 1925 Gisborne Harbour Board; Wrecked at Hokitika Jan. 16, 1929 - some reports say at the time of her loss was owned by the Wellington-West Coast Shipping Co. Ltd. Possibly chartered by them? See 'Out of Auckland' by Hawkins, Pelorus, Auckland, 1960]
'Isabella de Fraine' wooden ketch
'Isabella de Fraine' wooden ketch 93 tons [wooden auxiliary ketch, twin screw motors, 110 gross tons, 76 net tons. ON112556. 94.2 x 25.4 x 6.8. Built 1902 Camden Haven, NSW. Twin diesels 45hp, later 60hp. Owners: Dominion Shipping Co. Ltd. later AG Franklin Ltd of Auckland, registered Sydney. Wrecked Hokianga Harbour, New Zealand July 14, 1928]
'Ronga' wooden schooner
'Ronga' wooden schooner 93 tons [wooden 2 mast schooner, 104 gross, 93 net tons, ON76076, 98.5 x 23.0 x 7.1. Built 1900 Thomas M Lane, Totara North, New Zealand for owners in Lyttelton. The vessel was converted into a single screw steamship and renamed 'Wairu' in 1909 (and was subsequently converted into a motorship of the same name]
'Jessie Craig' iron barque
'Jessie Craig' iron barque 634 tons.
'James Craig' iron barque
'James Craig' iron barque 646 tons.
'Quathlamba' iron barque
'Quathlamba' iron barque 467 tons [iron barque, 495 tons, ON77453, 167.9 x 29.1 x 13.6. Built 1879 (2) A Hall and Co., Aberdeen. JT Rennie and Sons, registered Aberdeen. 1895 sold to Captain PL Francis, re-registered London. 1899 sold to Auckland owners, JJ Craig, and renamed 'Hazel Craig' in 1905. Sold in 1908 and renamed 'White Pine'. Sold in 1922 and became a hulk at Melbourne. The hulk scuttled in Bass Strait 14 Jan. 1947. In Australian trades, under all names, was usually employed in trans Tasman timber trades]
'Laira' iron barque
'Laira' iron barque 492 tons sunk by collision at Dunedin, 1898. Laira after collision with 'Wakatipu' Dunedin April 2, 1898. [iron 3 mast barque, 492 gross, 458 net tons. ON62152, 156.1 x 27.35 x 16.65. Built 1870 (3) William Pile and Co., Sunderland. Owners: Richard Hill, registered Plymouth. June 1882 CB Stone and others. Registered Auckland: Feb. 1889 Henry Guthrie, registered Dunedin: 1893 H Anderson: 1893 John Paterson, Dunedin: 1898 Union SS Co. of New Zealand Ltd., as a hulk at Port Chalmers: 1900 John Gibbons: 1904 EJ Rogers, registered Hobart: 1908 JJ Craig, registered Auckland, and apparently re-rigged: 1910 Huddart, Parker and Co. Ltd, registered Melbourne for use as a hulk and register closed in 1912]
Shipping at Wellington
Shipping at Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890's.