c. 1880, Photograph, PRG 1373/32/30
Shipping at Sydney in the 1880's with the schooner 'Vale', and barques 'Altcar' and 'Brunette.' [Brunette iron 3 mast barque, 382 gross, ON? 141.0 x 25.3 x 15.6. Built 1859 Chas. Lungley, Deptford (London) sold foreign and renamed Pride of the West, returns to British owners at Glasgow in 1870 reverts to original name 1870 - GR Dibbs, reg. Sydney: June 1880 John Frazer: March 1881, JC Ellis: 1890 TH Holdship and hulked. Jan 1892 McIlwraith, MacEacharn Ltd. Towed to sea and scuttled, register closed in 1913. Always a collier whilst in Australian ownership] ['Vale' = wooden 2 mast topsail schooner, 65 tons. ON74888. 76.0 x 18.9 x 7.0. Built 1876 John Burrell and Josiah Quiggen, Crookhaven, NSW. J O'Dwyre and J Berril, rergistered Sydney; 1878/9 Robert Langley; April 1897 SM Nielson, registered Port Adelaide. Wrecked off Cape Borda, SA, Feb. 26, 1900]. Sydney Town Hall is on the horizon so this is somewhere on Darling Harbour West.