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The 'Auriga' in an unidentified port

The 'Auriga' in an unidentified port

The iron barque 'Auriga', 570 tons, in an unidentified port. [Built 1875 as such, renamed 'Sierra Blanca' q.v. ON62537] [iron three mast barque, 540 tons, ON62537, 164.5 x 28.1 x 17.4. Built 1869 (9) Iliff. Mounsey and Co. Sunderland. Owners. RH Penney and Co. registered Shoreham. c.1885 J. Hardie. registered London. May 1890 sold to owners in New Zealand and registered in Auckland. Sold in 1902 to Sydney and converted into a coal hulk by Howard Smith in 1914.]

Arts and Crafts : Exhibitions

Arts and Crafts : Exhibitions

[Seaview Downs resident Sue Sierra looks at a pottery exhibit in this year's City of Brighton Art Exhibition.] 1st October 1986.

Arthur D. Edwardes : SUMMARY RECORD

Records comprising 91 volumes of photographs of ships, organised under type of ship, or ownership, and with basic caption information. The volumes were compiled by shipping enthusiast Arthur Edwardes, using original prints if available, but most commonly copy prints. See below for details of ships in the various volumes.

Salt harvesting and quarrying in South Australia

Salt harvesting and quarrying in South Australia

35mm colour slides originally housed in a container with the label 'I.C.I. Technical', arranged in small boxes with the labels: Pt Augusta (6), Sidewinder Solar Salt SF (25), Quarry (21), Quarry (26), Osborne (18), Aerial (9), Bluebird LMG Excav (19), S/F series (23), Ardrossan conveyor S/F (1), S/F Harvest tech (20), S/F (24), S/F (23), Mt Bold Solar (4), S/F fauna birdlife (11), Quarry (9), S/F (26). Comprising images of: solar salt fields at Port Augusta and Port Paterson, salt fields at Dry Creek near Adelaide, quarry at Penrice and the soda ash works at Osborne, Mount Bold dam and reservoir, and numerous images of salt harvesting and quarrying machinery and vehicles including conveyors, stacker conveyors, crushers, drills, elevators and salt harvesters, in particular the 'Curdimurka' and 'Hodog' salt harvesters. See below for details.