Find • PRG 1373 • Results 2,581 to 2,610 of 4,706
The 'Hougomont' in an unidentified port
The steel 4 masted barque 'Hougomont', 2428 tons, in an unidentified port [steel 4 mast barque, 2428 tons. ON106093. 292.4 x 43.2 x 24.1. Built 1897 Scott and Co. Greenock. Owners: J Hardie and Co. Registered Glasgow. After WW1 passed to Gustav Eriksson and was employed in the Australia grain trade. Dismasted on her passage to South Australia in 1932. Spent some time anchored off Semaphore while awaiting a decision for her fate, but repairs proving to be too expensive in Australia she was taken and scuttled as a breaker in Stenhouse Bay].
The 'Loch Carron' in an unidentified harbour
The iron 4 masted barque 'Loch Carron', 2128 tons, in an unidentified harbour [iron 4 mast ship (c.1905 4 mast barque) 2128 tons. ON90033, 287.7 x 42.5 x 24.1. Built 1885 (4) Barclay, Curle and Co. Glasgow. Owners: General Shipping Co. (Aitken and Lilburn) registered Glasgow. sold c.1912 /4 Norwegian owners and renamed 'Seileren'. Lost during WW1 due to enemy action].
The 'Stoneleigh' in an unidentified harbour
The steel 4 masted barque 'Stoneleigh', 2243 tons, in an unidentified harbour [steel 4 mast barque, 2243 gross, ON99767, 281.6 x 42.3 x 24.6. Built 1892 (3) Scott and Co. Greenock. Owners: G Cowan, registered Greenock].
The 'Mayfield' in an unidentified harbour
The steel 4 masted barque 'Mayfield', 2285 tons, in an unidentified harbour [steel 4 mast barque, 2285 gross tons, ON89695. 277.5 x 42.0 x 24.2. Built 1892 (2) Russell and Co. Greenock. Owners: Shaw Savill and Co, registered Glasgow].
The 'Auchencairn' in an unidentified harbour
The steel 4 masted barque 'Auchencairn', 2040 tons, in an unidentified harbour. [steel 4 masted barque. 2040 gross, ON89482. 287.7 x 40.2 x 23.4. Built 1891 (10) Ritson and Co. Maryport. Owners: Ritson and Co. Registered Maryport. c.1902 sold to German owners and renamed 'Nomia'. Sailed from Newcastle, NSW July 10, 1912 bound for Antofagasta, but failed to arrive.]
The 'May Cory' in the River Avon
The wooden barquentine 'May Cory', 163 tons, in the River Avon [wooden 3 mast brigantine - although in the barquetine section, 178gross, 163 net tons. ON68343, 107.8 x 22.7 x 11.4. Built 1875 (4) Johnson, Bideford. Owners: CT Bowring and Co. registered Liverpool].
The 'St. Anne' wrecked on Cornish coast
The wooden schooner 'St. Anne', 102 tons, wrecked on the Cornish coast [wooden 2 mast schooner, 102 gross and net tons. ON107661. 83.4 x 23.7 x 9.2. Built 1898 C Lajoie, St. Irebee, owners C Lajoie, registered Quebec].
The 'Englishman' in an unidentified port
The wooden schooner 'Englishman', 183 tons, in an unidentified port [wooden 2 mast schooner. 183 gross and net tons. ON26822. 112.5 x 21.7 x 11.1. Built 1854 Cowes, by John White. Owners c.1870 William Hatton, registered Bristol. c.1880 JS Sterry, registered Lowestoft. Later issues of Lloyds, c.f. 1895-6 copy, states that this vessel was lengthened in 1879, and was a three mast schooner].
The 'Nellie Fleming' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Nellie Fleming', 152 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 3 mast schooner, 152 gross tons, 120 net tons. ON67851, 106.4 x 24.6 x 9.3. Built 1893 (11) T Watson, Peel, Isle of Man. Owners: GT Beard, registered Cork. Ex 'Rita' 1898, ex 'Griqualand West'].
The 'Ideal' in an unidentified port
The wooden schooner 'Ideal', 327 tons, in an unidentified port.
The 'Queen' wrecked on Cornish coast
The wooden cutter 'Queen', wrecked on the Cornish coast.
The 'Oberon' in an unidentified harbour
The steel barquentine 'Oberon', 1119 tons in an unidentified harbour [steel 4 mast barquentine, 1119 gross, 1054 net tons. ON102624. 211.2 x 35.6 x 19.6. Built 1893 (10) Russell and Co., Port Glasgow. Owners: J Fairlie, registered Glasgow. No later than 1916 passed to Danish owners without change of name. Later converted into a coal hulk in South Africa].
The 'Bulwark' in an unidentified port
The wooden ship 'Bulwark', 1332 tons, in an unidentified port. [wooden three mast ship, 1332 tons. ON46115, 198.7 x 40.2 x 23.9. Built 1862 New Brunswick. Owners: Smith and Co. reg. London, later John Fleming, reg. London. Made at least one voyage to New Zealand under charter to Shaw Savill and Co. Original ship rigged re-rigged as barque. Capsized Hobson's Bay and sold as a wreck in Aug. 1881. Raised and repaired. Owner: David Blair, timber merchant, reg. Melbourne. Argus May 4, 1882 reported the ship foundered on a voyage from Yokohama to Puget Sound and 18 lost].
The 'Wild Deer' in an unidentified port
The wooden ship 'Wild Deer', 1016 tons, in an unidentified port [composite ship, 1016 tons, ON48652, 211.0 x 33.2 x 20.7. Built 1863 (12) C. Connell and Co., Glasgow. Owners: Albion Shipping Co., registered Glasgow. Wrecked 12 January, 1883 on the Irish coast. Built for the China Tea trades but early passed into the Australian and New Zealand migrant trades].
The 'Timaru' in an unidentified harbour
The iron ship 'Timaru', 1306 tons, in an unidentified harbour [iron 3 mast ship, 1363 gross, 1306 net tons. ON71689, 239.3 x 36.1 x 21.1. Built 1874 (12) Scott and Co. Greenock. Owners: Albion Shipping Co., registered Glasgow, later Shaw Savill and Albion Co. Ltd., c.1899 converted into a freezer-storage hulk in South Africa. (Some reports say she was wrecked under Norwegian ownership Feb. 22, 1907)].
The 'Pleione' towing to Dunedin
The iron ship 'Pleione', 1092 tons, towing to Dunedin [iron 3 mast ship, 1139 gross, 1092 net tons. ON72369, 209.7 x 34.6 x 20.3. Built 1876 (9) A Stephen and Sons, Glasgow. Owners: Shaw, Savill and Co., registered Glasgow: 1882 - Shaw, Savill and Albion Ltd., registered Southampton. About 1899 sold to Norway without immediately changing her name but eventually became re-rigged as a barque and renamed 'Esov' and then 'Elvine Homuth' and finally 'Tamara XI'. Under this name she was wrecked in 1923 in the Gulf of Bothnia. Suffered a bad stranding in New Zealand in 1888 but was refloated and repaired] [Pleione = Greek mythology, daughter of Oceanus and mother of the Pleiades].
The 'Pareora' in an unidentified port
The iron ship 'Pareora' ex 'White Eagle', 879 tons, in an unidentified port [from the time of her acquisition by New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd., the ship remained in the England-NZ passenger trade. In the period she took passengers to Auckland arriving Sept. 1878 and March 1882. To Wellington arriving July 1879, July 1880, April 1881, Jan. 1883. To Lyttelton arriving Oct. 1884. To Port Chalmers arriving Oct 1877, Nov. 1883. To New Plymouth arriving Dec. 1885. Reference 'White Wings' by Henry Brett 1924].
The 'Hurunui' in an unidentified port
The iron ship 'Hurunui' as Russian 'Hermes', 1012 tons, in the port of Mariehamn [iron 3 mast ship, 1053 gross, 1012 net tons. ON73588. 204.1 x 34.2 x 20.0. Built 1875 (9) Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Co., Jarrow on Tyne. Owners: New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. registered London (Lyttelton 1879-1888) July 1895 sold to Russians and renamed 'Hermes' Torpedoed by a German submarine May 4 1915 off St Catherines Point, Isle of Wight. Built for the UK-NZ trade].
The 'Genevie M. Tucker' at Port Adelaide
The wooden barque 'Genevie M. Tucker', 524 tons, at Port Adelaide [wooden 3 mast barque, 519 tons, 1890 =524 gross , 499 net tons. ON69006. 136.4 x 29.8 xz 16.8. Built 1870 William A Curtis, Portland Maine and registered in that port. Sold Feb. 1879 to William Williams coal merchant and registered Wellington NZ 1885 Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd (who acquired Williams Black Diamond Line) 1889 Martin Kennedy (Brunner Coal Co) 1889 - Ferdinand Holm: 1901 HW Henderson, registered Sydney; 1902 Westport Coal Co. Ltd registered Dunedin, and converted into a coal hulk].
The 'Albert' in an unidentified port
The wooden barque 'Albert', 319 tons, in an unidentified port. [wood 3 mast barque, 319 tons, ON51553, 112.3 x 28.3 10.6 built: 1862 J. Brown, Marbelhead, Mass. Owners: formerly registered in Liverpool: 1864. Thos. Cotton, junior (of Liverpool) reg. Melbourne. Oct 1869 WB Forrest (of Boston, Mass) reg. Melbourne. Melbourne files ceased in 1917 with 'Wrecked time and place unknown)].
The 'Laura' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden barquentine 'Laura', 326 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast ketch, 22 tons, ON74848, 54.7 x 15.1 x 4.4. Built 1880 William Thoroughgood, Lake Macquarie, NSW. Owned in Newcastle NSW until sold in 1906 to a German subject and register closed] See further 'Newcastle Ship Register' Parsons, August 1974.
The 'Speculant' in an unidentified port
The steel barquentine 'Speculant', 387 tons, in an unidentified port [steel 3 mast barquentine, 412 gross, 364 net tons, 147.0 x 27.0 x 11.7. Built 1895 Cumming and Ellis, Inverkeithing. Purchased from owners registering the vessel in Russia in 1906 by Mr. PJ McGennon, registered Melbourne. Wrecked Cape Patton, Victoria Feb. 10, 1911, on voyage (in ballast) from Warrnanbool towards Melbourne. (NB: there is a mock representation of this vessel in an artificial lake at Warrnanbool in a maritime park].
The 'Kongsbyrd' in an unidentified port
The wooden barquentine 'Kongsbyrd', 278 tons, in an unidentified port [wooden 3 mast schooner, later barquentine, 278 gross, 250 net tons. British ON112487. 120.1 x 26.9 x 12.4. Built 1874 F Smith Peterson, Grimstad, Norway who owned the vessel until 1900 when sold to Sydney owners, Messrs RS Lamb and Company, registered Sydney. c.1911 sold to D&S Sheehy who converted the vessel to a hulk. From 1900 till hulked employed in the trans-Tasman trades, usually coal to New Zealand and timber to Australia].
The 'Saoirse' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Saoirse' in an unidentified harbour.
The 'Aneiura' in an unidentified port
The Aux. wooden schooner 'Aneiura'. 1658 tons, in an unidentified port. [wooden auxiliary twin screw four mast schooner. 1704 gross tons, 1328 net tons. British Official number 153923. 236.5 x 42.0 x 29.0. Built 1918 J. Robertson, Benica California and named 'Oronite' (not US Oronite as on some captions) twin diesal engines, 110 nhp. Owners: c.1926 EC Sharpe, registered Panama, 1928 Southern Cross Shipping Co. Pty.Ltd. Registered Melbourne. Register closed 1933 'Broken up'. (NB the vessel does not appear to have been registered in USA)].
Graham's Floating Dock, Sydney
Graham's Floating Dock, Sydney, Schooner 'Hope'.
Sydney Harbour
Sydney Harbour in the 1870's, Campbell's Cove, looking east.
'Aristides' at Sydney
'Aristides' at Sydney in the 1880's, Walsh Bay looking south west, [iron ship, 1721 tons, ON70454, 260.0 x 39.5 x 24.5. Built 1876 (3) Walter Hood and Co. Aberdeen. Owners: George Thompson and Co. Registered Aberdeen. Missing, sailed 28 May 1903 from Caleta Buena bound for San Francisco but did not arrive. Said to have been the flagship of the Aberdeen White Star Line and a favourite passenger ship in both the Sydney and Melbourne trade until the company change to steamships.]
Circular Quay
Circular Quay in 1870.
Wooloomooloo from the Domain
Wooloomooloo from the Domain in the 1870's.