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Shipping in Roper River, 'S.S. Omeo', barque 'Bengal'
Shipping in Roper River, Darwin with the 'S.S. Omeo' and the barque 'Bengal'.[Bengal is a 3 masted barque, 322 gross, 306 net tons. ON55594, 136.5 x 27.4 x 11.9. Built 1864 Gefle. Purchased from owners in Gefle in 1868 by Thomas Grierson, William Taylor and Robert Woolnough, registered Port Adelaide May 1873. William Taylor and partners. 1883 R. Green registered Rockhampton. Wrecked August 6, 1886 on the Great Barrier Reef east of Hayman Island when on a voyage from Townsville North Queensland towards Wanganui in New Zealand. All saved.]
The 'Wellington' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Wellington', 49 tons, in an unidentified harbour [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 'Annie Watt' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Annie Watt', 42 tons, in an unidentified harbour. [wood 2 masted barge rigged, ON57512, 42 tons, 63.7 x 18.0 x 5.6. Built 1870 J Wilson Port Esperance T. by 1875 described as a ketch. Aux. engine fitted in 1925 = 44g, 33n. Owners: George Watt, reg. Hobart Dec. 1873 George Watt, William Fergussen & Samuel Reeves, reg. Port Adelaide. Dec. 1873 Wm Fergussen and S Reeves: 1877 G. McKay and others. Oct. 1882 Port Wakefield Shipping Co. Ltd: 1895 AE Le Messurier & Partners. 1925 RC and JF Harvey. Sold for preservation and is ashore at Port Adelaide waiting provision of a display site. Photograph taken at Pine Point. Man on left is James Francis Harvey. 9/3/88 great-great granddaughter Maureen Driver.]
The 'Annie Watt' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Annie Watt', 42 tons, in an unidentified harbour. [wood 2 masted barge rigged, ON57512, 42 tons, 63.7 x 18.0 x 5.6. Built 1870 J Wilson Port Esperance T. by 1875 described as a ketch. Aux. engine fitted in 1925 = 44g, 33n. Owners: George Watt, reg. Hobart Dec. 1873 George Watt, William Fergussen & Samuel Reeves, reg. Port Adelaide. Dec. 1873 Wm Fergussen and S Reeves: 1877 G. McKay and others. Oct. 1882 Port Wakefield Shipping Co. Ltd: 1895 AE Le Messurier & Partners. 1925 RC and JF Harvey. Sold for preservation and is ashore at Port Adelaide waiting provision of a display site.
Port Adelaide
Looking up the river at Port Adelaide in 1838.
Wharf near Ferry steps
Wharf near Ferry steps at Port Adelaide, 1866.
Shipping at Port Adelaide
Shipping at Port Adelaide in the early 1870's with the brig 'Fairy Rock', and the ships 'The Murray' and 'Coonatto'.
Port Adelaide shipping
Shipping at Port Adelaide, 1871 with, from left, the ship 'Yatala', the ship 'Orient' and the brigantine 'William'.
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide, about 1902, with the 'S.S. Young' and the 'Croydon'.
Klein's Point 1930
Klein's Point.
Shipping. Port Wakefield about 1910
Shipping. Port Wakefield about 1910.
Shipping, Port Victoria 1925
Shipping, Port Victoria 1925.
Port Victoria 1934
Port Victoria 1934. 'Priwall', 'Viking', 'Pamir', 'Padua', ketch 'Forbes Bros', and 4 masted barque 'Archibald Russell'.
Port Victor, 1894
Port Victor 1894. Barque 'Cardigan Castle', SS 'Gulf of Taranto', ship Fürst Bismarck, SS 'Port Stephens'.
Shipping, Victor Harbour
Shipping, Victor Harbour. Ship 'Euphrosyne', barques 'Finland' and 'Inverneill'.
'Victoria' wooden barque
'Victoria' wooden barque 365 tons being towed out of Hobart [wooden 3 mast barque, ON57513, 365 tons, altered 1876 - 310 tons. 128.6 x 27.6 x 15.4. Built 1860 Lubeck. Owners(ex-Foreign 1871) Jan. 1871 George Salier, registered Hobart; Jan. 1876 J Fisher; Dec. 1880 WM Fisher; Dec. 1885 J Shimmins; May 1892 James McLeod, registered Melbourne; Oct. 1911 A Phillips for demolition. Register closed 1911. Purchased for whaling]
'Grace Darling' wooden schooner
'Grace Darling' wooden schooner 82 tons [wooden 2 mast schooner, 82 tons. ON57502, 83.2 x 20.3 x 8.1. Built 1869 Hobart. Owners (came to Port Adelaide in 1873) William Tulloch, registered Port Adelaide. Sold to Fremantle in May 1892 and wrecked Feb. 4, 1914]
'Good Intent' wooden ketch 35 tons
'Good Intent' wooden ketch 35 tons [wooden 2 mast ketch, 35 gross, 33 net tons. ON57592, 62.4 x 17.9 x 5.0. Built 1877 John Wilson, Port Cygnet Tasmania. Owners: T Nichols, registered Hobart. c.1923 Cygnet SS Co. 1924 AJ and RR Burgess, registered Melbourne. At a date unknown an auxilliary engine of 12 hp was installed. Wrecked May 10th, 1928 King Island]
'Kermandie' wooden schooner
'Kermandie' wooden schooner 343 tons.
'Hannah Nicholson' wooden barquentine in Sydney Harbour
'Hannah Nicholson' wooden barquentine 252 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 252 tons, ON41488, 116.4 x 23.6 x 14.4. Built 1858 L Kennedy and Co. Whitehaven, Cumberland. Owners William Nicholson, registered Melbourne; 1862 George Black; 1872 John Bickers, registered Port Adelaide; May 1894 AE Howard; 1896 R Watt, registered Sydney; 1897 Bernard Byrnes; 1905 Westport Coal Co. Ltd, registered Dundee. Register closed in 1926 when advice received vessel used as a hulk at Timaru] [vessel shown with tug 'Young Bungaree' in Sydney Harbour] ['Young Bungaree' = wooden single screw steam tug, 90 gross, 47 net tons. ON83881. 87.0 x 15.0 x 9.0. Built 1883 James Rodrick, Eagleton, Williams River, NSW. Compound steam engine 25hp. Morrison and Bearby, Newcastle, NSW. Owners: E. Waddington and partners, registered Newcastle, NSW; April 1884 John Dalton; August 1902 Goerge Niccol, registered Auckland; 1905 Devonport Steam Ferry Co. Ltd; later JA Pearce. Broken up and registered closed in 1926]
'Marmion' wooden schooner and 'Sir Henry' wooden brigantine
'Marmion' wooden schooner 92 tons and 'Sir Henry' wooden brigantine 95 tons [Marmion = wooden 2 mast topsail schooner, 92 tons, ON66575, 75.3 x 23.1 x 9.0. Built 1874 John Darrach and Sons, Mahurangi. Owners were in Auckland, Wellington and finally Dunedin. Vessel went missing. Left Napier March 3, 1899 for Tairua, in ballast and not heard of since. Presumed to have foundered with all hands (6). Captain was Richard Wood] ['Sir Henry' = wooden 2 mast brigantine, 95 tons, ON93566, 90.1 x 23.8 x 6.7. Built 1887 Thomas Davis, Terrigal, NSW for owners in Sydney, in 1903 transferred to Auckland. Her last owners were Joseph Goomes and Albert Jagger, registered Auckland. The vessel capsized and was lost with all hands (4) near East Island, East Cape, North Island, New Zealand July 17, 1906 while in command of Joseph Goomes]
'Lady Belmore' wooden brigantine
'Lady Belmore' wooden brigantine 254 tons [wooden 2 mast brigantine, 254 tons, ON59507. 114.6 x 26.0 x 13.8. Built 1868 Robert Cox, Bribane Water, NSW. Owners: Robert Cox, registered Sydney: Feb. 1876 George Fisher, registered Launceston. April 1880 Kate Powell, registered Maryborough, Queensland. Wrecked when driven from her anchors at Flat Top Island, off Mackay, Queensland March 8, 1882, the press reporting her loss said '...lately sold to P Graham and Co. Maryborough'] NB. note from Ron Parsons 'there is no apparent reason why this vessel should appear in a collection of New Zealand owned vessels'.
'Louisa Craig' iron barque
'Louisa Craig' iron barque 683 tons ['Peru' = iron barque, 710 tons, ON75188, 182.4 x 30.1 x 17.8. Built 1876 (8) J Key and Sons, Kinghorn, Owners: JW Robertson, registered Dundee. c.1885 J Stewart and Co., registered Dundee. 1907 sold to J Craig and Co, and renamed 'Louisa Craig' and registered at Auckland. In October 1916 renamed 'Raupo' and became the property of GH Scales (of Wellington). 1923 Canterbury Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. and hulked in 1922-3, and register closed in 1929]
'Selwyn Craig' iron barquentine
'Selwyn Craig' iron barquentine 486 tons [iron 3 mast barque, 531 gross, 486 net tons. ON58966, 154.0 x 28.0 x 17.4 Built 1868 Dobie and Co., Glasgow. as 'Advancement' for Doward Dickson and Co,, registered Liverpool. Sold in 1895, she became the Norwegian 'Prince John' and was acquired in 1905 by JJ Craig, registered Auckland and renamed 'Selwyn Craig'. Sold in 1911 to the Union SS Co. of New Zealand Ltd., she was converted into a hulk. The hulk sank in October 1919 in Auckland and was demolished by explosives in September 1922]
'Kinclune' iron barque
'Kinclune' iron barque 718 tons [iron 3 mast barque, 741 gross tons. ON75194, 184.7 x 30.1 x 18.4. Built 1876 (11) A Stephens and Sons, Glasgow. Owners: David Couper, registered Dundee. 1910 AH Turnbull and H Munro, registered Lyttleton. Wrecked Nov. 15, 1904 near Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand]
'Rona' iron barque
'Rona' iron barque 618 tons in dry dock [iron 3 mast barque, 678 gross, 618 net tons, ON90129, 192.2 x 30.15 x 16.0. Built 1885 Workman, Clark and Co. Ltd. Belfast as 'Polly Woodside', renamed 1904. Owners: 1904 AH Turnbull and H Munro, registered Lyttelton. 1906 Colonial Sail Ship Co. Ltd. 1911 H Douglas, Fiji and others in New Zealand. 1916 H Scales (who incorporated a limited company in 1921. 1922 The Adelaide Steamship Company as a hulk. Now restored and on display in Melbourne as 'Polly Woodside']
'Lake Erie' iron barque
'Lake Erie' iron barque 938 tons at Port Adelaide [iron 3 mast barque, 988 gross tons. ON60397. 202.4 x 33.6 x 20.3. Built 1868 (12) Barclay, Curle and Co. Glasgow. Owners: The Canada Shipping Co. (of Montreal) registered Glasgow; 1874 registry transferred by the owners to Montreal. Dec. 1891 - AH Turnbull (42) and H Munro (22) registered Lyttelton. 1902 sold to foreigners (Italian subjects)]
'Manurewa' iron barque at Port Adelaide
'Manurewa' iron barque 327 tons at Port Adelaide, with Birkenhead in the background. [iron 3 mast barque, 371 gross tons ON89648. 143.1 x 26.1 x 13.0. Built 1884 (12) Murdoch and Murray, Port Glasgow. Owners: George Wood, registered London; 1897 Hugh Munro, registered Lyttelton, and name changed in November 1899 to 'Manurewa'. Munro sells in 1904. He had been in association with AH Turnbull from 1904 until 1908. The owners were GT Nichol and partners; 1909 RS Lamb and partners, registered Sydney, later AS Paterson and Co., who were the owners when the vessel went missing. She sailed from Newcastle NSW March 22, 1922, and was not seen again and presumed to have foundered with the loss of all hands]
Shipping at Port Lyttelton about 1895
Shipping at Port Lyttelton about 1895.
'Still Water' wooden barque
'Still Water' wooden barque 1130 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 1130 gross, 1052 net tons. ON79998, 186.4 x 37.4 x 22.5. Built 1879 D Lynch, Portland, New Brunswick. Owners: D Troop and Sons, registered St John, New Brunswick]