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The 'Rachel Cohen' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden brigantine 'Rachel Cohen', 150 tons, in an unidentified harbour. Also refer to print PRG 1373/35/150, Part II. [wooden 2 mast schooner, 170 tons, ON64370, 105.5 x 21.0 x 10.5. Auxiliary engines installed 1915 = 171 gross 95 net tons. Built 1871 Alexander Newton, Manning River, NSW. Owners: Samuel Cohen registered Sydney: 1873 Piggott and Worledge, registered Melbourne: 1889 O Geeves, registered Hobart: July 1895 A le Messurier and William Tulloch, registered Port Adelaide c.1898 R Glen and others: c. 1909 CAL Neuman; c.1914 Joseph Hatch: c.1918 The Southern Isles Exploration Co. Ltd.; 1920 Browse Island Co. Ltd. Destroyed by fire at Darwin January 16, 1924]
The 'J.L. Hall' in an unidentified harbour
The iron barque 'J.L. Hall', 698 tons, in an unidentified harbour.
The 'Esther' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Esther', 33 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast barge, ON32135, 34 tons, 62.6 x 16.2 x 4.0. Built 1864 Joseph Graves, Southport T. auxiliary engine added 1928. Owners John W. Graves, registered Hobart: Dec. 1889 J Graves; Sept. 1897 Edward B. Goddard (who alters the vessel and lengthens it from the original 51.6 x 16.2 x 5.7) April 1902 Francis Darmody registered Port Adelaide; 1902 SW Secker and SJ Bishop. By 1919 described as a ketch and owned by SW Swiggs; 1922 HR Simpson. Register closed in March 1943 when it was reported the vessel had been broken up]
The 'Stormbird' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Stormbird', 39 tons, in an unidentified harbour. Also refer to print PRG 1373/35/56 [wooden 2 mast ketch, ON57551, 50 tons, 67.8 x 19.5 x 6.2. Built 1874 Southport, Tasmania. Lengthened 1911 = 69 gross, 55 net tons, 84.8 x 19.1 x 6.2. Auxiliary engine fitted 1922. Owners: June 1876 William Ferguson and S Reeves, registered Port Adelaide; 1878 G McKay and C Heath and J Yeo; 1883 GS Simmonds; 1902 A le Messurier; 1904 J&A Tainsh, by 1919 G&R Tainsh and partners. By 1930 SG Loveder, then RM Crouch. Wrecked November 4, 1968 when on a voyage from Madang to Wewak, New Guinea. Two lives lost]
The 'Esther' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Esther', 33 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast barge, ON32135, 34 tons, 62.6 x 16.2 x 4.0. Built 1864 Joseph Graves, Southport T. auxiliary engine added 1928. Owners John W. Graves, registered Hobart: Dec. 1889 J Graves; Sept. 1897 Edward B. Goddard (who alters the vessel and lengthens it from the original 51.6 x 16.2 x 5.7) April 1902 Francis Darmody registered Port Adelaide; 1902 SW Secker and SJ Bishop. By 1919 described as a ketch and owned by SW Swiggs; 1922 HR Simpson. Register closed in March 1943 when it was reported the vessel had been broken up]
The 'Oscar Robinson' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Oscar Robinson', 61 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast ketch, ON89228, 61 tons, 72.5 x 19.0 x 7.0. Built 1883 Robert Muirhead, Stewartfield, Williams River, NSW. Auxiliary engine installed in 1925. Formerly owned in Sydney, transferred to Port Adelaide 1900. Broken up and register closed in October 1940. See 'Ketches of South Australia' by Parsons, 1978]
The 'Victor' wrecked at Balgowan
The wooden ketch 'Victor', 58 tons, wrecked at Balgowan [wooden 2 mast ketch, ON57547, 67 tons, 79.0 x 19.9 x 7.5. Built 1874. Hobart. auxiliary engine installed 1898 - 78 gross, 23 net tons. 77.1 x 19.5 x 7.0. Owners: John McLeod, junior and partners, registered Port Adelaide: 1892 A McDonald; 1894 FP Moore and WH Kinlay, later JP Moore and partners: 1918 AG Littlelty, J Tainsh and R Fricker; 1921 WL and LP McArthur' 1922 Alert Pty. Ltd. Wrecked at Balgowan Reef, SA January 3, 1925. See 'Ketches of South Australia' 3rd edition 1978]
'Kassa' wooden barque
'Kassa' wooden barque 287 tons with sails set [wooden 3 mast barque, 325 tons, later 287 tons. ON55310, 125.1 x 25.1 x 12.6. Built 1868 (8) Esnouf and Mauger, Jersey. Owners: Edward Esnouf, registered Jersey. 1873 William Wells, registered Port Adelaide. July 1874 William Lee Murrell. registered Melbourne. January 1877 Robert Harper. December 1883 ET Miles (of Hobart) November 1884 TM Fisher and others , registered Hobart]
'Lass of Gawler' wooden brigantine
'Lass of Gawler' wooden brigantine 212 tons [wooden 2 mast brig. 211 tons, ON43135, 119.3 x 23.5 x 13.8. Built: 1862 (11) Meadus, Poole, County Dorset. Owners: Walter Duffield, registered Port Adelaide: May 1884 William Wells and WL Dickson: Feb. 1885 HCE Meucke: March 1885 Tasmanian SN Co. Registered Hobart and converted to a coal hulk. 1891 Union SS Co. of New Zealand. Sold for demolition 1908. Unknown why in Tasmanian section, probably never made a voyage for Tasmanian owners, possibly even converted to a hulk in South Australia]
'Kassa' as stump topgallant-mast barque
'Kassa' as stump topgallant-mast barque 287 tons drying sails [wooden 3 mast barque, 325 tons, later 287 tons. ON55310, 125.1 x 25.1 x 12.6. Built 1868 (8) Esnouf and Mauger, Jersey. Owners: Edward Esnouf, registered Jersey. 1873 William Wells, registered Port Adelaide. July 1874 William Lee Murrell. registered Melbourne. January 1877 Robert Harper. December 1883 ET Miles (of Hobart) November 1884 TM Fisher and others , registered Hobart]
'Kassa' wooden barque
'Kassa' wooden barque 287 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 325 tons, later 287 tons. ON55310, 125.1 x 25.1 x 12.6. Built 1868 (8) Esnouf and Mauger, Jersey. Owners: Edward Esnouf, registered Jersey. 1873 William Wells, registered Port Adelaide. July 1874 William Lee Murrell. registered Melbourne. January 1877 Robert Harper. December 1883 ET Miles (of Hobart) November 1884 TM Fisher and others , registered Hobart]
'Kassa' wooden barque
'Kassa' wooden barque 287 tons dismasted [wooden 3 mast barque, 325 tons, later 287 tons. ON55310, 125.1 x 25.1 x 12.6. Built 1868 (8) Esnouf and Mauger, Jersey. Owners: Edward Esnouf, registered Jersey. 1873 William Wells, registered Port Adelaide. July 1874 William Lee Murrell. registered Melbourne. January 1877 Robert Harper. December 1883 ET Miles (of Hobart) November 1884 TM Fisher and others , registered Hobart]
'Eucalyptus' wooden barque
'Eucalyptus' wooden barque 200 tons [wooden 2 mast square rig (schooner) 1856 - re-rigged 3 mast barque. 194 tons originally, later 173 tons. 101.0 x 22.4 x 9.7. Built 1852 John Ross, Battery Point, Hobart. Owners: CM Maxwell and partners, registered Hobart. June 1864. Charles Dowdell and William Belbin: August 1868 William Belbin. Wrecked Nov. 28, 1870 on a voyage Hobart Town towards Port Adelaide on an uncharted rock near Black Reef, off Swan Island, Bass Strait]
'Waratah' wooden barque
'Waratah' wooden barque 202 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 203 gross, 202 net tons. ON57525, 123.0 x 25.0 x 11.0. Built 1872 John Lucas, Battery Point, Hobart. Owners: Peter Facy (21) William Fisher (22) and John Fisher (21) registered Hobart. April 1877 Peter Facy and William Fisher; June 1882 River Don Trading Co. Ltd; Feb. 1884 AJ Soutar, registered Sydney and briefly reported as a 3 mast schooner; 1884 Anton Schlink, registered Port Adelaide. Wrecked Jan. 20, 1894 in heavy westerly gale was driven ashore Rocky Islet, Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria]
'Kassa' as stump topgallant-mast barque
'Kassa' as stump topgallant-mast barque 287 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 325 tons, later 287 tons. ON55310, 125.1 x 25.1 x 12.6. Built 1868 (8) Esnouf and Mauger, Jersey. Owners: Edward Esnouf, registered Jersey. 1873 William Wells, registered Port Adelaide. July 1874 William Lee Murrell. registered Melbourne. January 1877 Robert Harper. December 1883 ET Miles (of Hobart) November 1884 TM Fisher and others , registered Hobart]
'Wild Wave' wooden barque
'Wild Wave' wooden barque 223 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 251 gross, 237 net tons, later 258 gross, 223 net tons. ON74462. 119.1 x 27.1 x 12.0. Built 1875 Liverpool, reportedly bought on the stocks by John Fisher in 1875. Owners: John Fisher, registered Hobart, 1876, later the same year Fisher and Facy. c.1909 The Hobart Timber Co., who enroll ship at Port Adelaide, in May 1913. Wrecked near Stanley, NW Tasmania, June 4, 1923]
Shipping, Wallaroo in the 1870s
Wallaroo in the 1870s'. Barque 'Verulam' SS 'Kangaroo' ['Verulam' = wooden 3 mast barque rigged. ON19852, 510 gross tons. 141.2 x 28.9 x 19.2. Built 1958 Sunderland. Registered Wisbeach, England and engaged in UK-Australia trade until sold in 1870 to Henry Simpson, Port Adelaide. Sold 1896 and converted into a hulk. Broken up and register closed in 1931. See 'Black Diamond Line' by Parsons, 1972]
'Emanuele Accame' steel 4 masted barque
'Emanuele Accame' steel 4 masted barque 2131 tons. At Port Adelaide [Owned in Genoa, details see C.B. Pedersen]
'Laurel Whelen' and 'Cecilia Sudden' wooden schooners
'Laurel Whelan' (foreground) a 5 masted aux. schooner built in 1917 at Victoria, British Columbia for the Canadian West Coast Navigation Co. 'Cecilia Sudden', with the dark hull, a 4 masted schooner, at Port Adelaide.
'Tonio' wooden barque
'Tonio' wooden barque 1087 tons at Port Adelaide [wooden 3 mast barque, 1087 gross, 1032 net tons. 191.6 x 35.1 x 23.7. Built 1882 G Fava, Voltri. Owners: ER Zino, registered Genoa]
'President Felix Faure' steel 4 masted barque
'President Felix Faure' steel 4 masted barque 2803 tons. At Port Adelaide [steel 4 mast barque, 2860 gross, 2410 net tons. 311.6 x 45.4 x 24.9. Built 1896 (5) Forges and Chantiers de la Medit, Havre. Owners: Cie Harvaise de Nav. (Ed Corblet and Co. managers) registered Havre. Lost March 13, 1908 Antipodes Islands]
'Three Cheers' wooden ketch, 'Wollomai' wooden brigantine
'Three Cheers' wooden ketch 97 tons, 'Wollomai' wooden brigantine 143 tons ['Three Cheers' = wooden 2 mast schooner, 103 gross, 97 net tons ON112550, 91.5 x 23.8 x 6.7. Built 1902 at Tomakin, NSW by Alfred William Settree of Balmain, NSW. Owners: first registered Sydney 1904 to JJ Craig: registered Auckland, 1915 to Melbourne and sometimes owned by the Bridport and Flinders Island Shipping Co. Ltd. Register closed in 1929 'Vessel dismantled and sunk'] 'Wollomai' = wooden 2 mast schooner, ON74645, 151 gross 143 net tons. 107.6 x 23.6 x 9.5. Built 1876 R Kennedy, Yarrabank, Melbourne. Owners: FP Snewin and F Chapman, registered Melbourne: June 1880 Wright, Orr and Flett: March 1882 William Tulloch, registered Port Adelaide; Oct. 1911 A Le Messurier and partners. Wrecked June 4, 1923 Mounts Bay, near Apollo Bay Victoria]
'Sixtus' steel barque
'Sixtus' steel barque 1822 tons. At Port Adelaide [iron barque, 1822 tons, ON93682, 268.6 x 38.2 x 23.3. Built 1886 (6) Harland and Wolff, Belfast. Owners: WH Meyers and Son, registered Liverpool (managed by Ismay, Imrie and Co.) c.1900 sold Danish owners and renamed 'Sixtus'. Wrecked near Cape Horn in August 1905. Note from Parsons = two photographs of the 'Sixtus'. 'Stanmore became the 'Deudraeth Castle']
'L'Hermitte' steel barque
'L'Hermitte' steel barque 2189 tons. At Port Adelaide [steel 3 mast barque, 2309 gross, 1733 net tons, later 2189 gross, 1946 net tons. 276.6 x 40.3 x 22.5. Built 1901 Atel & Chant de la Loire, Nantes. Owners: Soc. Anon Les Voiliers Dunkerquois, registered Dunkirk. Broken up 1923. Later 2189 gross, 1946 net tons]
'Gudrun' iron barque
'Gudrun' iron barque 1476 tons. At Port Adelaide [iron 3 mast barque, 1476 gross, 1424 net tons. 248.0 x 37.6 x 21.3. Built 1886 (8) Rostocker Act. Ges. Rostock. Owner: CM Matzen, registered Hamburg]
'Vercingetorix' steel ship
'Vercingetorix' steel ship 2392 tons at Port Adelaide [steel 3 mast ship, 2392 gross, 1729 net tons, later 2273 gross, 1988 net tons. 281.0 x 40.7 x 22.7. Built 1902 Chant and Atel. de St. Nazaire, St Nazaire. Owners: Cie de Navigation Francaise, registered Nantes, later Soc. Anon des Voiliers Nantais, registered Nantes. Captured by Germans in 1914 and renamed 'Bremen' reverts to France and original name in 1919. Broken up in 1923]
'Claymore' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'Claymore' wooden barque. [wooden 3 mast barque, 287 gross, 273 net tons. 114.0 x 26.4 x 14.0. ON20433. Built 1858 (3) R. James, Leith. Owners: in July 1869 acquired by John Bickers, registered Port Adelaide. Vessel condemned at Calcutta in 1892 and sold for the benefit of all concerned.]
'General Blanco' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'General Blanco' wooden barque [this elderly wooden ship of 900 odd tons, under the Hawaiian flag (at the time a 'flag of convenience' - or 'no questions asked') came to grief in 1856 off the Troubridge Shoals. For the full story see 'Shipwrecks in SA, Book 1' Parsons, 1981/4. This illustration shows her figurehead on the balcony of the Exchange Hotel, Port Adelaide]
'Loch Tay'
Burial at sea; ship 'Loch Tay' [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]
'Hannah Nicholson' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'Hannah Nicholson' wooden barque [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]