1884, Photograph, PRG 1373/39/15
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.]