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'Florrie'
'Florrie' [wooden single screw steamship ON75036. 32 gross, 22 net tons. Built 1879 (7). Rock Davis, Brisbane Water, NSW. 55.5 x 14.0 x 5.4. Compound, vertical steam engine, 11hp Chapman and Co. Sydney. Owners: Rock Davis, reg. Sydney. 1880 CE Jeanneret. Wrecked December 1882, but recovered and repaired. March 1889 WR Cave and Co. registered Port Adelaide. March 1889 The Adelaide Steam Tug Co. Ltd. Feb. 1898 EJ Wright. c.1904 William Swiggs. c.1908 Richard Fricker. c.1919 Richard Garnout, 1922 Richard Fricker (& Co. Ltd) Broken up at Port Adelaide, register closed 1931. Used as a small/tug/tender/beach boat in South Australia. See 'Steam Tugs in SA' by R. Parsons]
'Yacka'
'Yacka' [steel single screw steam tug, ON137238. 118 gross, 2 net tons. Built 1926 (12) Scott and Sons, Bowling. 90.0 x 22.1 x 9.4. Triple expansion recip. steam engines, 84nhp. Hawthorns Ltd. Leith and Gauldie and Gillespie, Glasgow. Owners: The Adelaide Steam Tug Co. Ltd., registered Port Adelaide; 1958 Ritch and Smith Ltd.; 1967 Towage Holdings Pty. Ltd. Sold 1971 having been laid up since 1969. Late 1973 sold by order of the court on account of accumulated debts. New owner commenced making alterations and it is believed she was to be converted into a tuna fishing boat but was found to be unsuitable and she was demolished in Port Adelaide mid 1975. See 'Steam Tugs in SA' Parsons]
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.
Captain George Beadon
[On back of photograph] Head and shoulders portrait of white haired and bearded Captain George Beadon. In 1838 his ship 'The Conway' docked at Port Adelaide where he bought 80 acres of swamp land but left before he obtained a reciept for his purchase. Years later he recieved a receipt for land at Gawler. He claimed that the South Australian government had switched documents and that he actually owned much of Port Adelaide. See PRG 74 Series list for his claims and the response of the government. [On back of photograph] 'Captain George Beardon / Original purchaser Fife Angus' Swamp at Port Adelaide / Sent to the Archives Department S.A. by James B. Marchant, the son of John Adams Marchant who arrived with his family in 1861 aboard the Harwich / Certified by Charles C. Welland, 6/12/1949'
Photographs of SS 'Karatta'
Three photographs of SS 'Karatta', which operated the Port Adelaide-Kingscote Kangaroo Island passenger and freight service from 1907-1961, which was captained by Captain Pearson. See 'Contents' for details.
Captain Patrick Weir
Captain Patrick Weir, Port Adelaide Harbormaster. The son of Alexander and Isabella Weir, Patrick was born at Stonehaven, Scotland. He went to Sea at the age of 15 on the Craigendarroch. In 1879 he was mate on the Monalite when he left the vessel at Port Adelaide to become second officer on the Governor Musgrave. On 14 March 1882 he married Helen Christie. He owned the tug Ariel and the steamer Argyll. He later rejoined the Governor Musgrave as Captain. On the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion he volunteered and was appointed lieutenant on the Protector. In 1915 in command of the Protector he was sent to Cocos Island to see if the German cruiser Emden could be salvaged, after which in the same year he was appointed Port Adelaide harbor master. He retired in June 1925.
The "Anne E. Price", a launch under construction
The "Anne E. Price", a launch under construction for the Marine Board of South Australia in dry dock; five men stand on deck.
Captain Patrick Weir
Captain Weir, wearing naval dress uniform. Captain Patrick Weir, Port Adelaide Harbormaster. The son of Alexander and Isabella Weir, Patrick was born at Stonehaven, Scotland. He went to Sea at the age of 15 on the Craigendarroch. In 1879 he was mate on the Monalite when he left the vessel at Port Adelaide to become second officer on the Governor Musgrave. On 14 March 1882 he married Helen Christie. He owned the tug Ariel and the steamer Argyll. He later rejoined the Governor Musgrave as Captain. On the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion he volunteered and was appointed lieutenant on the Protector. In 1915 in command of the Protector he was sent to Cocos Island to see if the German cruiser Emden could be salvaged, after which in the same year he was appointed Port Adelaide harbor master. He retired in June 1925.
S.S. Sorata on rocks
Built in Glasgow in 1872 the Orient Line S.S. Sorata sailing from Port Adelaide to Melbourne under the command of Osbertus Graham Fowler ran onto rocks south of Cape Jervis on the evening of the 3rd September 1880. All her 368 passengers were transhipped to steam tugs, &c., and sent back to Port Adelaide; and nearly all of her cargo was saved, although some of it was considerably damaged. She remained on the rocks until 13 November, when she was removed and towed back to Port Adelaide.
Photographs relating to E.E. Scarfe and Mortlock family
Loose photographs of E.E. Scarfe, J.T. Mortlock and his mother, and the Mortlock yacht 'Martindale'. See below for details. Some of the images (nos. 3-9) have been digitised for the South Australiana Database. Do a NUMBER search on that database under PRG 1445/8.
The 'Coringle' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Coringle', 99 tons, in an unidentified harbour. [wooden aux. 3 mast schooner ON120761. 96 gross, 76 net tons. 76.4 x 23.8 x 7.0 built 1909 Woodley's Ltd. Berry's Bay North Sydney. Engine 25hp. Lengthened 1918 = 128 gross, 99 net tons. 105.7 x 24.0 x 6.4. Re-engined 1938 now twin screw auxiliary schooner. 132 gross, 95 net tons. Owners Orbost Shipping Co. Ltd. Registered Melbourne. 1918 Rosenfeld Hillas and Co. Pty. Ltd. August 1922 JA Olsen and others, registered Port Adelaide, then Austral Plaster Co. Ltd. requisitioned by government during WW2. Re-registered Port Adelaide in September 1946 by R. Fricker and Co. and others. By 1969 was operating out of Darwin for others.]
'Lark' wooden schooner
'Lark' wooden schooner 139 tons aground at Port Adelaide, possibly following her collision with ss 'Darwin' at Semaphore Feb. 1890 [wooden 3 mast schooner, 179 gross, 139 net tons. ON93563. 108.0 x 22.4 x 10.6. Built 1881 Westacott and Sons, Barnstaple. First registered at Sydney in 1887. At Fremantle in 1897, at Port Adelaide in 1899 by Messrs. Seymour and in Nov. 1900. Owned by JJ Craig, the vessel was registered in Auckland. That register closed in 1909 with 'Broken up'.
'Cheopis'
'Cheopis'. [Cheopis means flea. Steel single screw steamship, ON156011, 55 gross, 25 net tons. 70.0 x 14.0 x 5.3. Built 1914 Robinson Bros. Melbourne. Compound steam engine, 34nhp, by shipbuilder, 10 knots. Owners South Australian Government's Customs and Health Department (Built as a boarding launch) Taken out of service and towed to Melbourne by SS Lady Loch Oct. 21, 1932. Sold and in 1934 registered at Port Adelaide by Kangaroo Island Transport Co. Ltd and intended for a service between Cape Jervis and Kangaroo Island. This was not successful and she was eventually sold and converted into a shark fishing boat no later than 1946. Eventually she became the property of Mr J. Anderson, of Apollo Bay, Vic. who unofficially renamed her Black Witch. She was wrecked Jan. 22 1954 at Apollo Bay. Her register was closed at Port Adelaide Customs in June 1956 with 'Vessel sunk'.]
Yarra Street Pier, brig 'Prospero', barque 'Cutha', ships 'Loch Rannoch' and 'Thyatira'
Yarra Street Pier in the 1880's with the brig 'Prospero', the barque 'Cutha' and the ships 'Loch Rannoch' and 'Thyatira' ['Prospero' = wooden 2 mast brigantine, 198 tons, ON45273, 108.5 x 22.4 x 12.6. Built 1862 Jersey. Owners: 1869 Joseph Stone, Port Adelaide: Nov. 1872 briefly owned in Melbourne, returns Port Adelaide 1873 to S Pridmore and others, until sold 1881 to J Graves, registered Hobart. 1893 CG Warburton, Sydney coal factor, registered Sydney, hulked at Sydney about 1902]
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]
'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]
George Dinsdale' towing mv 'Remo'
'George Dinsdale' at work [steel single screw steam tug ON133224. 105 gross , nil net tons. Built 1913 (3) Scott and Sons. Bowling. 90.0 x 18.1 x 8.4. Triple expans. recip steam engine by Fishers Ltd, Paisley. Owners: Grangemouth and Forth Steam Towing Co. Ltd. Registered Grangemouth Oct. 1924, Ritch and Smith Ltd, registered Port Adelaide. Broken up at Port Adelaide in 1963/4 by Hines Metals Ltd. See 'Steam Tugs in SA' by Parsons]
Records relating to sculpture projects carried out or proposed by JS Ostoja-Kotkowski
The series consists of photographs, transparencies, negatives, watercolours, drawings, correspondence, and models of sculpture projects undertaken by Ostoja-Kotkowski; proposals which were never undertaken; and photographs of a sculpture of JS Ostoja-Kotkowski. Some of the proposed towers were sound and kinetic works. Chronology:. 1956: Architectural exhibition Botanic Gardens Adelaide. 1957: Fountain Tasman Hotel beer garden Port Lincoln. 1958: Fountain. 1964: Fountain Rothman's Theatrette Wayville showgrounds; Australian Photographic Society plaque. 1967: XII Stations of the Cross Churinga Monastery chapel. 1969: Trophy England to Australia commemorative air race; Fountain West End market Adelaide. 1960s: Tubular steel sculptures. 1970: Descending dove Immanuel College Novar Gardens. 1972: Helios Churchill House Canberra. 1973: Dom Polski wall sculpture. 1976: Polish Soldiers' monument Dom Polski Adelaide. 1978: Carved headstone Zenon Swigon. 1979: Ned Kelly. 1981: Sphaeros Perth District Court. 1988: Monument to Tadeusz Kosciuszko Cooma New South Wales. nd: door handles - gallery.
The 'Prospero' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden brig 'Prospero', 198 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast brigantine, 198 tons, ON45273, 108.5 x 22.4 x 12.6. Built 1862 Jersey. Owners: 1869 Joseph Stone, Port Adelaide: Nov. 1872 briefly owned in Melbourne, returns Port Adelaide 1873 to S Pridmore and others, until sold 1881 to J Graves, registered Hobart. 1893 CG Warburton, Sydney coal factor, registered Sydney, hulked at Sydney about 1902].
The 'Post Boy' wrecked at Arno Bay
The wooden schooner 'Post Boy', 59 tons, wrecked at Arno Bay [wooden 2 mast schooner, 62 tons, 77.2 x 18.8 x 7.2. Built 1874. John Lowen, Port Adelaide. Owners: John Kuhl and partners, registered Port Adelaide. Foundered in St. Vincent Gulf Dec. 15, 1876. Raised and repaired, reregistered Thomas Watson and JH Bowker. Customs register closed in 1907 with 'totally wrecked'. See 'Ketches of South Australia' 3rd edition 1978]
The 'Post Boy' wrecked at Arno Bay
The wooden schooner 'Post Boy', 59 tons, wrecked at Arno Bay [wooden 2 mast schooner, 62 tons, 77.2 x 18.8 x 7.2. Built 1874. John Lowen, Port Adelaide. Owners: John Kuhl and partners, registered Port Adelaide. Foundered in St. Vincent Gulf Dec. 15, 1876. Raised and repaired, reregistered Thomas Watson and JH Bowker. Customs register closed in 1907 with 'totally wrecked'. See 'Ketches of South Australia' 3rd edition 1978]
The 'Wellington' after being damaged
The wooden ketch 'Wellington', 49 tons, after being damaged in collision [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 'Wellington' ashore at Hardwicke Bay
The wooden ketch 'Wellington', 49 tons, shore at Hardwicke Bay [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 'Coringle' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Coringle', 99 tons, in an unidentified harbour. [wooden aux. 3 mast schooner ON120761. 96 gross, 76 net tons. 76.4 x 23.8 x 7.0 built 1909 Woodley's Ltd. Berry's Bay North Sydney. Engine 25hp. Lengthened 1918 = 128 gross, 99 net tons. 105.7 x 24.0 x 6.4. Re-engined 1938 now twin screw auxiliary schooner. 132 gross, 95 net tons. Owners Orbost Shipping Co. Ltd. Registered Melbourne. 1918 Rosenfeld Hillas and Co. Pty. Ltd. August 1922 JA Olsen and others, registered Port Adelaide, then Austral Plaster Co. Ltd. requisitioned by government during WW2. Re-registered Port Adelaide in September 1946 by R. Fricker and Co. and others. By 1969 was operating out of Darwin for others.]
The 'Edith Alice' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Edith Alice', 32 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast barge, ON57508. 39 tons. 61.6 x 17.7 x 6.1. Built 1869. Thomas Inches, Huon River Tasmania. Made into an auxiliary vessel in 1927 and now 2 mast ketch. 41 gross, 33 net tons. Owners Thomas Inches, registered Hobart. Oct 1871. Charles Heath registered Port Adelaide by 1919 EH Heath and others, 1924 C Hipkins 1928 J Davis, 1934 TD Garnaut, 1936 MJ Davies. Broken up at Port Adelaide and register closed in 1938]
The 'Harold' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Harold', 98 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast ketch. ON112505, 108 tons, 96.0 x 23.0 x 7.1. Built 1900 Hans C Christensen, Bermagui, NSW. Aux. motor fitted May 1922. Owners: HC Christensen, registered Sydney; c.1914 AL Le Messurier and others (of Port Adelaide) register transferred to Port Adelaide in 1919. 1922 = R Fricker and Co. and partners. Acquired by the Commonwealth Government during WW2 on behalf of USA Small Ships. Fate unknown]
'Lark' wooden schooner
'Lark' wooden schooner 139 tons at Port Adelaide [wooden 3 mast schooner, 179 gross, 139 net tons. ON93563. 108.0 x 22.4 x 10.6. Built 1881 Westacott and Sons, Barnstaple. First registered at Sydney in 1887. At Fremantle in 1897, at Port Adelaide in 1899 by Messrs. Seymour and in Nov. 1900. Owned by JJ Craig, the vessel was registered in Auckland. That register closed in 1909 with 'Broken up'.
'Edith Alice' wooden ketch
Figurehead, 'Edith Alice' wooden ketch [wooden 2 mast barge, ON57508. 39 tons. 61.6 x 17.7 x 6.1. Built 1869. Thomas Inches, Huon River Tasmania. Made into an auxiliary vessel in 1927 and now 2 mast ketch. 41 gross, 33 net tons. Owners Thomas Inches, registered Hobart. Oct 1871. Charles Heath registered Port Adelaide by 1919 EH Heath and others, 1924 C Hipkins 1928 J Davis, 1934 TD Garnaut, 1936 MJ Davies. Broken up at Port Adelaide and register closed in 1938]
'Loch Tay' hulk
'Loch Tay' hulk, at Port Adelaide [iron ship, 1250 tons, ON60468, 225.4 x 35.5 x 21.6. Built 1869 (10) Barclay, Curle and Co. Glasgow. Owners: JP Kidston, registered Glasgow, later Glasgow Shipping Co. (Aitken and Lilburn, managers) registered Glasgow. Sold Nov. 1909 Huddart, Parker Ltd, Registered Port Adelaide and Converted into coal hulk. Register closed in 1958 when advice received vessel broken up]
'Cheopis'
'Cheopis'. [Cheopis means flea. Steel single screw steamship, ON156011, 55 gross, 25 net tons. 70.0 x 14.0 x 5.3. Built 1914 Robinson Bros. Melbourne. Compound steam engine, 34nhp, by shipbuilder, 10 knots. Owners South Australian Government's Customs and Health Department (Built as a boarding launch) Taken out of service and towed to Melbourne by SS Lady Loch Oct. 21, 1932. Sold and in 1934 registered at Port Adelaide by Kangaroo Island Transport Co. Ltd and intended for a service between Cape Jervis and Kangaroo Island. This was not successful and she was eventually sold and converted into a shark fishing boat no later than 1946. Eventually she became the property of Mr J. Anderson, of Apollo Bay, Vic. who unofficially renamed her Black Witch. She was wrecked Jan. 22 1954 at Apollo Bay. Her register was closed at Port Adelaide Customs in June 1956 with 'Vessel sunk'.]