port adelaide

A yacht sailing on Port River

c. 1910, Photograph, B 64135

PORT ADELAIDE: A small yacht sailing on the Port River, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

The Port River Expressway under construction; the 5.5 kilometer freeway-grade road links Port Adelaide and the LeFebre Peninsula to the northern suburbs of Adelaide and major insterstate routes via Salisbury Highway to Port Wakefield Road and the Sturt Highway to Perth and Sydney. The expressway was built in three stages and opened in June 2008.

Port Adelaide wharves and water frontages [cartographic material]

Archival map/chart, C 314

Maps of Port Adelaide. Enlargement A, and enlargement B, show Port River sectioned into Port Reach, Gawler Reach and Hindmarsh Reach. Plan C. shows coastline from Pt. Malcolm to St. Kilda, Light's Passage, Lipson Reach, Torrens Island and Garden Island. Gives section numbers and lot numbers for Port Adelaide, Birkenhead, Sandwell, Semaphore and Largs; names of companies occupying river frontage areas; also shows railways, reserves, schools. "The dark green line marks the Boundary of Properties which the President of the Marine Board recommends should be purchased."

Smelting Works, Pt. Adelaide

Government Photolithographer (S.A.), c. 1880, Photograph, B 13

The English and Australian Copper Co.'s smelting works and wharf at Port Adelaide.

Sweet, Samuel White, 1879, Photograph, B 10851

Looking across the Port River from Birkenhead to Queen's Wharf. Notes on the back of the photograph say "Identification notes by Captain Lee. The name of the ketch in the foreground is not known. The steamer inside this ketch is the SS "Glenelg". Inside the "Glenelg" is the barque "Agincourt". The barque (with painted ports) alongside the wharf is the "Star of India". On the extreme right of the photograph can be seen the tug "Adelaide".

Tugs on the Port River

c. 1910, Photograph, B 64139

PORT ADELAIDE: A group of tugboats on the Port River at Port Adelaide, South Australia.

Yacht on the Port River

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/7/30

A Port Adelaide Sailing Club yacht under sail on the Port River.

Christening of the single scull 'Wave'

2009, Photograph, SRG 873/1/127

Mike Bossley, Regional Manager and Director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, christens the scull 'Wave', named after one of the Port River dolphins.

Crane: Port Adelaide

1941, Photograph, B 39318

South Australian Harbors Board 15 Ton steam railway crane being converted in 1941, as a war time measure, to a 50 Ton traversing crane at Outer Harbour. According to a researcher, Chambers Scott was a Motherwell engineering firm which built a few steam cranes but this might have been their largest. They failed after a fire in 1926. Two 5' 3" gauge 6w+6w 10T steam railway cranes built by Chambers, Scott were constructed to Job No. 1139/1925 for the South Australian Harbors Board. Local newspaper articles dated Aug 1925 mentions their arrival ( 10t at 15' ) In World War II one was at Adelaide's Outer Harbour, where it had been converted to a 50T (60T in emergencies) traversing crane in 1941, to compensate for the transfer away of the floating crane. It was out of use and partially dismantled in 1968. The other was at Port Pirie in the 1960s; scrapped ca. 1967.

The New Port, 1840

Hitchen, J., 1840, Artwork, B 14128

The New Port, Adelaide in 1840 showing the ship "Caleb Angas". The artist J Hitchen was a 19th century lithographer. The barque "Caleb Angas" made two journeys to Port Adelaide in 1840 and 1841

Birkenhead Bridge over the Port River

Corlett, Robert, c. 1995, Photograph, B 61498/29

Birkenhead Bridge over the Port River at Port Adelaide.

Christening of the Single Sculls

2009, Photograph, SRG 873/1/131

Christening of the Single Sculls 'Billie' and 'Wave' which were named after the Port River Dolphins.

Dolphins Billie and Wave

2009, Photograph, SRG 873/1/129

The dolphins Billie and Wave. 'About thirty dolphins spend most of their time in the Port River Estuary. Sadly there have been many deaths and injuries caused by humans, some deliberate and some accidental'.

Rowers with dolphin behind

c. 2009, Photograph, SRG 873/1/194

Master rowers with boat and dolphin behind them in the Port River.

Speed boats on the Port River

c. 1930, Photograph, B 61722

PORT ADELAIDE: Competitors stand with their speed boats called 'Wind-Up' and 'Tiger' at the edge of the Port River.

Port Dock Brewery Hotel

1992, Photograph, B 57169

PORT ADELAIDE: Port Dock Brewery Hotel, Todd Street.

Swimming in the Port River

1928, Photograph, B 61565

PORT ADELAIDE: Two male swimmers standing in a small craft on the Port River next to a third man who holds a megaphone, possibly during a swimming gala; names not known.

Signs, Port Canal

Scott, Jenny, 2006, Photograph, B 70961

Signs at a Port Adelaide shopping centre advertising Port Canal; KFC; KMart; Coles; Woolworths; Cheap as Chips; Australia Post; National Pharmacies; and Australian Central.

Sailing on the Port River

Smith, W. S., c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 733/200

Sailboats on the upper reaches of the Port River, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

Port River

L. Henn and Co., c. 1881, Artwork, B 807

View showing Queen's wharf and part of North Parade wharf at Port Adelaide. On the right is the 'Bulwark'.

Port Adelaide

c. 1905, Photograph, B 50619

A sail in a steamship around the "Port".

Adelaide Chemical & Fertilizer Company Works

Smith, D. Darian, 1961, Photograph, B 53926

PORT ADELAIDE: Interior view showing the bagging process at the Adelaide Chemical & Fertilizer Company Works showing an eight head rotary bagger and constant height rotating hydraulic bagging platform.