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'Kobenhavn'
Looking aft from bow of 'Kobenhavn' [steel auxiliary 5 mast barque, 3901 gross, 3229 net tons. 369.8 x 49.3 x 26.9. Built 1921 (9) Ramage and Ferguson, Leith machinery aft, single screw 4 cylinder diesel by Burmeister and Wain, Copenhagen. Owners: East Asiatic Company , registered Copenhagan, sail training ship for the company. Missing left Buenos Aires Dec. 14, 1928 for Melbourne, spoken 8 days later and then disappeared. 60 lost including 45 cadets]
'Cutty Sark' composite ship
Figurehead, 'Cutty Sark' composite ship [composite ship, 963 gross tons. ON63557. 212.5 x 36.0 x 21.6. Built 1869 (11) Scott and Linton, Dumbarton. Owners John Willis and Son, registered London. (The shipbuilders went bankrupt in the course of constructing the ship and it was completed by Denny Bros) Sold 1895 to Portuguese and renamed Ferreira. Bought in 1922 by Captain Dowman of Falmouth, named and restored and re-rigged to her original sail plan. Presented to the Thames Nautical Training College in 1938. Subsequently installed in a dry dock at Greenwich on permanent display. This vessel has probably had more written about her than any other sailing ship, including 'The Log of the Cutty Sark' by Lubbock, see for full details up to 1938. The name is taken from a poem by Burns - Tam O'Shanter and the best translation appears to be 'short chemise'. Built for the China trades and considered to be among the world's fastest sailing ships. she was transferred to the Australian trades in 1885-6, trading mainly to Sydney, until she made a few voyages to Brisbane in the 1890's prior to being withdrawn and sold foreign. See 'The Log of the cutty Sark', 'Colonial Clippers', 'China Clippers']
'Mozambique' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'Mozambique' wooden barque.
'Brodick Castle' iron ship
Figurehead, 'Brodick Castle' iron ship.
'Dolores' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'Dolores' wooden barque.
'Black Prince' wooden ship
Figurehead, 'Black Prince' wooden ship.
'Austrasia' steel 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Austrasia' steel 4 masted barque. [steel 4 masted barque, 2718 tons. ON99403, 305.1 x 44.0 x 24.7. Built 1892 (5) Russell and Co. Port Glasgow: Owners: J&W Goffey, registered Liverpool. c.1910 sold to German owners and renamed 'Gustav'. Sold in 1929 to Gustav Erikson for the wheat trade she was renamed 'Melbourne'. Lost in 1932 following a collision with the tanker 'Seminole' south of the Fastnet.]
'Omega' iron 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Omega' iron 4 masted barque.
'Lady Diana' wooden SS
'Lady Diana' wooden SS [wooden twin screw steam ship, 100 tons, builders measurement. Not registered 90.0 x 16.0 x 8.0. Built 1877 (launched July 27) SA Government Yard, Port Adelaide. Twin compound steam engines, each 15nhp. Advertiser July 28, 1877 reporting the launch said she was built mainly to attend the mail steamers and was replacing ss 'Fairy'.]
'Annie E Price'
'Annie E Price' - boarding launch. [Annie E Price (which is incorrect, the proper name being Anne E Price - the wife of Premier Thomas Price) wood single screw motor launch, built c.1900 in the Government dockyard (?) for use as a boarding launch for the pilots employed by the Marine Board of SA. Three cylinder kerosene engine. Withdrawn from service about 1926.]
'Parmelia'
'Parmelia'.
'Cumbrian' hulk (right), and 'Candida' hulk (left)
'Cumbrian' hulk (right) and 'Candida' hulk (left) at Port Adelaide, 1930. [Cumbrian = iron barque 1083 tons, ON81309, 214.5 x 34.4 x 21.4. Built 1879 (9) R Thompson jnr. Sunderland. Owners P Iredale and Porter registered Liverpool. Hulk owned by McIlwraith, McEacharn P/L Melbourne]
'Adele' steel steam yacht
'Adele' steel steam yacht, 288 tons.[steel, single screw steam yacht, 288 gross, 131 n tons, ON123022 145.0 x 22.4 x 13.2, built 1906 Hawthorn & Co, Leith, Triple expans. recip stm eng, 68nhp. Owners: Edgar Arthur Munday, reg. Pt. Adelaide c.1908 (or was Munday only an agent?) Henry Dutton. Purchased by RAN 1915 for a tender at Jervis Bay, and commissioned Sept. 14, 1915 as HMAS Franklin. Taken out of commission in 1921 she was transferred to New Guinea in 1924 as an official vessel. Laid up in 1932 she was sold and regained the name 'Adele' while in use as a private yacht. Her last registered owner was CP Relph. She was requisitioned by the RAN in Sept 1939 and made an examination vessel. While on duty at Port Kembla, NSW she was wrecked after colliding with the breakwater May 7, 1943. Also known as 'Franklin": HMAS and or owned by Australian Government and operating in New Guinea]
'Colonel de Villebois Mareuil'
'Colonel de Villebois Mareuil' towing across the Columbia River bar.
'Brighton' Sydney ferry
Sydney ferry 'Brighton' at Manly Wharf, Circular Quay, Sydney.
The 'Mavis' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Mavis', 70 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast schooner, 70 tons, ON67940, 89.2 x 17.2 x 10.3. Built 1852 G&J Inman, Lymington, 1 deck, square stern, carvel build. Owners - formerly registered in Liverpool. Sept. 1875 acquired by the Melbourne pilots and registered at Melbourne. Sold 1900 Henry Dutton and registered Port Adelaide. Sold to Sydney in 1908. See 'Port Phillip Pilots and Defences' by Noble, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1973].
The 'Coquette' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden barquentine 'Coquette', 214 tons, in an unidentified harbour. [wooden 3 mast schooner (caption says barquentine) 214 tons, ON83872. 124.0 x 24.6 x 10.6. Built 1883 James Rodrick, Eagleton, Williams River, NSW. Owners John Henderson and Alexander Smith, registered Newcastle, NSW March 1883, 1889 John Henderson and Alex. Fraser (32) and Alex. Smith Stephen (32) April 1899. JH and TH Brown registered Sydney. Burnt at Townsville North Queensland, December 1903.]
The 'Helga' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden barquentine 'Helga'. 1254 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden barquentine, 1254 tons. ON121156, 209.0 x 42.2 x 21.7. Built CG Framnaes, Sandefjord, Norway, in 1892 and then described as a barque of 1366 gross, 1332 net tons. Condemned c.1904 apparently in Sydney. When built named 'Fortuna' renamed at a time unknown.1906 - owners Narabeen Ship Co. Ltd. and Dan Patrick Wall, registered Sydney. Wrecked off Honolulu, August 1910].
Shipping at Sydney
Shipping at Woolloomooloo Bay, looking south west, about 1860.
Barque and Coasters at Sydney
Unknown Barque and Coasters at Sydney in the 1870's.
Regatta Day at Sydney
Regatta Day at Sydney, with the ferry 'Swan', about 1888.
Panorama of Circular Quay, Sydney
Circular Quay, Sydney in 1871 with the ships 'Ellen Stewart', in distance 'Sabroan', 'Hallowe'en' (left panel); 'Dunbar Castle' (centre panel); and 'Dunbar Castle' (continued), 'Abergeldie', 'Border Chief', and 'Duke of Sutherland' (right panel). [Border Chief = iron 3 mast ship, 1055 gross, 1011 net. ON60708/60748?, 212.0 x 35.0 x 20.3. Built 1870 (7) Readhead, Softley and Co. South Shields, Owner Henry Adamson, reg. Aberdeen c. 1881 to owners in Germany. In the 1870's made at least two voyages to New Zealand from England]
Panorama of shipping at Circular Quay, Sydney
Shipping at Circular Quay, Sydney in 1879 with the stern of 'Samuel Plimsoll' (left panel); and 'Cambrian Princess', 'Cimba' and 'Hawkesbury' (right panel).
Shipping at Circular Quay
Shipping at Circular Quay in the 1880's.
Shipping at Newcastle
Shipping at Newcastle in the 1860's.
Shipping, Melbourne, 'Superb'
Shipping in Melbourne in the 1870's with 'Superb' at the left.
Shipping, Geelong, 'Jerusalem' and 'Allanshaw'
Shipping in Geelong in the 1870's with the ships 'Jerusalem' and 'Allanshaw'.
Shipping, Port Darwin, 4 masted barque 'Euphrates'
Shipping in Port Darwin in the 1880's, with the 4 masted barque 'Euphrates'.
The 'Wellington' entering the Port River
The wooden ketch 'Wellington', 49 tons, entering the Port River [wooden 2 mast ketch, ON79266, 50 tons, 70.5 x 18.6 x 6.0. Built 1884. Thomas Lancaster, Table Cape, Tasmania. Aux. engine fitted 1923. Owners: Thomas Lancaster, registered Launceston;Nov. 1885 GM Jackson, registered Melbourne; May 1890 J Catarinich (Port Adelaide), registered Port Adelaide; 1899. 1902 = J & A Tainsh; 1923 CK McFarlane; 1930 = J Tainsh; by 1946 JT Cosh and Partners. Sold to owners in the Solomon Islands and left Australia in January 1966. Subsequently returned and is now acting a replica of Captain Cook's 'Endeavour' at a marine park in Queensland]
The 'H.J.H.' at Devonport Tasmania
The wooden ketch 'H.J.H.', 72 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast ketch, 73 tons. ON57582. Built 1877 Huon, Tasmania and named 'Governor Weld' sold in 1899 renamed and lengthened 84.4 x 19.9 x 6.2. Aux. engine fitted c.1909 = 72 gross, 44 net tons. Owners from 1899 Thomas Henry Holyman, registered Launceston. c.1909 Holyman Bros. Ltd. Wrecked on Badger Island, Bass Strait, June 16, 1917. (HJH stands for Helena Josephine Holyman)