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The 'Belford' in an unidentified harbour
The steel ship 'Belford', 1905 tons, in an unidentified harbour. [steel ship 1905 tons. ON104589 267.0 x 40.1 x 23.6. Built 1894 (11) A. McMillan and Co. Dumbarton Owners Belford Ship Co. (Briggs Harvie and Co. )registered Glasgow then Ruthin Castle Ship Co (R. Thomas and Co.) Captured by a German submarine Feb 3 1917 about 110 miles west from Fastnet and sunk by bombs.]
The 'Galgate' in an unidentified harbour
The steel 4 masted barque 'Galgate', 2356 tons, in an unidentified harbour [steel 4 mast ship, 2356 tons. ON93808, 293.5 x 42.8 x 24.2. Built 1888 (9) Whitehaven Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, Whitehaven. Owners: Galgate Ship Co. (J Joyce) registered Liverpool; later Galgate Shipping Co. Ltd (J Joyce and Co) Captured May 6, 1916 by a German submarine and sunk by gunfire about 170 miles west by north from Ushant].
The 'Rob Roy' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Rob Roy', 112 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast schooner, 112 gross, 99 net tons. ON38748. 80.0 x 23.5 x 10.7 built 1867 (9) Doiront, Miramichi. Owners: George Moffat, registered Miramichi. c.1880 J Waugh, junior, registered Greenock, registration later changed to Cork. Sunk by gunfire from a German submarine, January 26, 1918, 20 miles south west from St. Catharines].
Yachts at Sydney
Yachts at Sydney in the 1870's, looking west across Farm Cove to Government House.
Exhibition ship 'Success' at Sydney
Exhibition ship (former prison hulk) 'Success' at Circular Quay West Sydney in the 1890's.
'Zingara' wooden schooner
'Zingara' wooden schooner wrecked [wooden 3 masted topsail schooner, 211 gross, 184 net tons. ON122917. 128.1 x 33.1 x 6.2. 1908 converted to auxiliary steamer engine, 15 hp. 219 gross, 99 net tons. engines removed 1910 - 219 gross, 185 net tons. Altered Dec. 1919 to 219 gross, 90 net tons. Converted to twin screw auxiliary sailing vessel Sept. 1926 = 233 gross, 53 net tons, engine 220bhp. Owners: Jagger and Partners, registered Auckland; 1910 FA Sargeant, timber merchant Sydney; 1917 William Archibald; 1919 Winstone Ltd; 1925 Gisborne Harbour Board; Wrecked at Hokitika Jan. 16, 1929 - some reports say at the time of her loss was owned by the Wellington-West Coast Shipping Co. Ltd. Possibly chartered by them? See 'Out of Auckland' by Hawkins, Pelorus, Auckland, 1960]
'Aristides' at Sydney
'Aristides' at Sydney in the 1880's, Walsh Bay looking south west, [iron ship, 1721 tons, ON70454, 260.0 x 39.5 x 24.5. Built 1876 (3) Walter Hood and Co. Aberdeen. Owners: George Thompson and Co. Registered Aberdeen. Missing, sailed 28 May 1903 from Caleta Buena bound for San Francisco but did not arrive. Said to have been the flagship of the Aberdeen White Star Line and a favourite passenger ship in both the Sydney and Melbourne trade until the company change to steamships.]
'Nostra Madre' iron barque
'Nostra Madre' iron barque 650 tons [Decapolis = iron barque 669 tons. ON60858, 187.5 x 30.0 x 18.0. Built 1868 (8) W Pile and Co. Sunderland. Owners TB Walker, registered London c.1895 sold to Italian owners without immediate change of name,c.1908 renamed Nostra Madre. Torpedoed in Mediterranean in WW1. Sometimes employed in West Australian wool trade. Well known in the Brisbane trade and later in the Tasmanian trade]
Shipping at Sydney
Shipping at Woolloomooloo Bay, looking south west, about 1860.
Shipping at Sydney
Shipping at Sydney in the 1870's. Cuthbert's Shipyard, Millers Point, looking north-west.
Papers of Collins and Murdoch Family
Records comprising correspondence, papers, photographs, cards, war records and correspondence, ephemera and travel documents belonging to members of the Collins and Murdoch families, across generations. Records mostly relate to Enoch Henry Murdoch and his daughter Daphne Murdoch and Frederick William (F.W.) Collins including diaries and his World War I correspondence.
The 'Eildenhope' in an unidentified port
The iron ship 'Eildenhope', 1539 tons, in an unidentified port [iron ship, reduced to barque mid 1880's. 1539 gross tons. ON76199, 240.0 x 37.3 x 22.9. Built 1876 (10) W Gray and Co. West Hartlepool. Owners Thomas Henderson and Partner, registered Newcastle upon Tyne, later Adam, Hamilton and Co. and in 1887 re-rigged as a ship, and register transferred to Greenock where the owners enrolled her in the name of Grianaig Shipping Co. with themselves as managers].
The 'City of York' in an unidentified harbour
The iron ship 'City of York', 1195 tons, in an unidentified harbour. [iron ship, 1234 tons, later 1218 tons. ON60456, 222.7 x 35.8 x 21.7. Built 1869 (9) J. Elder and Co. Glasgow. Owners: George Smith and Sons. Registered Glasgow. Wrecked July 12, 1899 Rottnest Island, West Australia, inward bound from San Francisco.]
The 'Sutlej' in an unidentified port
The iron ship 'Sutlej', 1742 tons, in an unidentified port [iron ship, 1742 tons, ON94365, 260.3 x 38.2 x 23.1. Built 1888 (2) Russell and Co., Port Glasgow. Owners: Foley and Co., registered London. Sold c.1907 and renamed 'Antares' by Italian owners. Wrecked off the Victorian coast, west of Peterborough late in 1914, with the loss of her entire crew when on a voyage from Marseilles to Melbourne. Apparently struck the base of a high cliff and foundered].
The 'Loch Ard' in an unidentified harbour
The iron ship 'Loch Ard', 1624 tons, in an unidentified harbour [iron ship, 1693 tons, ON68061, 262.7 x 38.3 x 23.0. Built 1873 (11) Charles Connell and Co. Glasgow. Owners: General Shipping Co., (Aitken and Lilburn, managers) registered Glasgow. Wrecked at Curdie's Inlet, June 1, 1878. About 27 miles west of Cape Otway, Victoria, with the loss of all but two of her complement of 52. One of the most sensational wrecks on the Australian coast and a whole body of literature has been built up around this disaster. Much too voluminous to list here. Almost any publication touching upon shipwreck in Australia will mention this wreck - a number of full length books have been written on the subject].
The 'Buteshire' sinking off the British coast
The steel 4 masted barque 'Buteshire', 1906 tons, sinking off the British coast after springing a leak, 29th March 1911. [steel 4 mast barque. 1906 tons. ON95084. 266.5 x 40.0 x 23.7. Built 1888 (8). Birrell, Stenhouse and Co. Dumbarton. Owners Thomas Law and Co. Reg. Glasgow. Abandoned at sea about 100 miles west of Brest March 27, 1911.]
The 'Swordfish' in an unidentified port
The wooden brigantine 'Swordfish', 111 tons, in an unidentified port [wooden 2 mast brigantine, 111 tons, ON38811, 92.7 x 20.9 x 8.4. Built 1866 Macleay River, NSW for Sydney owners; sold to Melbourne in 1868, and while enrolled at that point operated by various sawmillers in north west Tasmania until 1897 when sold to VW Brown of Townsville. The last news of the vessel was that she had been abandoned at Maryborough in January 1919, presumably as unseaworthy. Transcripts from Sydney and Melbourne Customs registers].
The 'Auckland' in an unidentified port
The iron ship 'Auckland', 1245 tons, in an unidentified port. [iron 3 mast ship, 1308 gross, 1245 net tons. ON71658. 239.8 x 36.0 x 20.7. Built 1874 (7) R. Duncan and Co. Port Glasgow. Owners: Albion Shipping Co. registered Glasgow 1882 Shaw Savill and Albion Co. Sold c.1905 to Norway without change of name. Totally wrecked off Possession Island, South West Africa, March 6, 1909 with the loss of all hands. Built for the UK-NZ Emigrant trade by Patrick Henderson's Albion Line, one of the six sisters that all hand long lives. ].
Colin Kerr : SUMMARY RECORD
Papers of Colin Gregory Kerr comprising diaries, correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, manuscripts of books and other material. Includes material of his wife Margaret Goyder Kerr.
Shipping at Sydney
Shipping at Sydney in the 1880's, Circular Quay East, looking south west.
The 'Gwendoline' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden schooner 'Gwendoline', 84 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden schooner, 84 tons, ON106153, 86.0 x 23.1 x 7.2. Built 1897 Coopernook, NSW. Owners Alfred and Robert Langley, registered Sydney. c. 1903 Henry C Edwards, registered Port Darwin, later to E W Lepoigneur. Wrecked February 10, 1924 when she ran ashore at Port Hedland, West Australia. Abandoned as a total loss in April 1924].
'Cutty Sark' loading wool
'Cutty Sark' loading wool at Sydney in the 1880's, Circular Quay South, looking north west, [composite ship, 963 gross tons. ON63557. 212.5 x 36.0 x 21.6. Built 1869 (11) Scott and Linton, Dumbarton. Owners John Willis and Son, registered London. (The shipbuilders went bankrupt in the course of constructing the ship and it was completed by Denny Bros) Sold 1895 to Portuguese and renamed Ferreira. Bought in 1922 by Captain Dowman of Falmouth, named and restored and re-rigged to her original sail plan. Presented to the Thames Nautical Training College in 1938. Subsequently installed in a dry dock at Greenwich on permanent display. This vessel has probably had more written about her than any other sailing ship, including 'The Log of the Cutty Sark' by Lubbock, see for full details up to 1938. The name is taken from a poem by Burns - Tam O'Shanter and the best translation appears to be 'short chemise'. Built for the China trades and considered to be among the world's fastest sailing ships. she was transferred to the Australian trades in 1885-6, trading mainly to Sydney, until she made a few voyages to Brisbane in the 1890's prior to being withdrawn and sold foreign. See 'The Log of the cutty Sark', 'Colonial Clippers', 'China Clippers']
Sydney Wharf scene, bow of 'Cutty Sark'
Sydney Wharf scene, Circular Quay South, looking west, in the 1880's with the bow of the 'Cutty Sark'.
The 'Waterwitch' at Circular Quay
The wooden brigantine 'Waterwitch', 165 tons, in Circular Quay, looking north west; the old Commisariat Building is in the left background. [Wooden 2 mast brigantine, 165 tons, ON69745, 115.5 x 25.0 x 9.4. Built 1873 Richard Phegan, Cape Hawke, NSW. Owners: JY Phillips, registered Sydney. Stranded Torres Strait 1884, and sold as a wreck. Repaired and re-registered Rockhampton, c.1890 to 1903, when broken up, owned by Francis King Terry].
Shipping at Sydney, ship 'Strathnaver'
Shipping at Sydney in the 1870's, Circular Quay East, looking south west.
Shipping at Sydney, barque 'Metaris'
Shipping at Sydney in the 1870's, barque 'Metaris' with mizzen mast removed [wooden 3 mast barque, 244 tons, ON18486. 103.4 x 24.6 x 15.1. Built 1857. Sunderland for owners in Wisbeach. Sept. 1863 Thomas Chapman, registered Melbourne:May 1865 Messrs Merriman, registered Sydney: Jan. 1873 John Lyons: May 1881 AJ Lewington and register transferred to Hawaii.] A researcher has said that this is Darling Harbour, looking south-west with floating dock.
Sydney wharves, barque 'Ravenscourt', S.S. 'Wallarah'
Sydney wharves, Walsh Bay looking south west, in the 1890's with the barque 'Ravenscourt' and the S.S. 'Wallarah' [Ravenscourt = steel 3 mast barque 1462 gross, 1373 net tons, ON99774, 236.0 x 36.0 x 21.7. Built 1892 (3) Russell and Co., Port Glasgow. Owners: A Stevenson and H Buchanan (JM Campbell and Son, Managers) registered Greenock. c.1911 to Italians without change of name] ['Wallarah' = steel steam ship, 633 gross, 193 net tons. ON115878, 183.2 x 28.0 x 11.0. Built 1900. R Williamson and Sons, Workington. Triple expansion steam engine. Machinery aft. Collier. Three masts. Owners: 1903 Wallarah Coal Co. Ltd., registered Sydney. Wrecked Catherine Hill Bay, NSW, 1914]
Photographs from the AOU expedition
Photographs taken by S.A. White during the Australian Ornithologists' Union's expedition to 'Eyre's Peninsula, October 1909'. The expedition is documented in a booklet published by White in 1910 under the title 'Ornithologists at Warunda Creek' which features many photographs of the expedition; the photographs in this series are additional to those in the book. Also includes photographs of the Field Naturalist Society outing to Mount Lofty and others at a social gathering on a tennis court.
Photographs relating to the King family
Photographs (18) relating to Stephen King junior, the 1861-1862 J. McD. Stuart expedition and the King family. Objects were photographed for donor S.C. Wilson. See "Contents" for further details.
'Mabel Stewart' wooden schooner
'Mabel Stewart' wooden schooner [wooden auxiliary twin screw 5 mast motor schooner, 1472 gross, 1272 net tons. ON138684. 243.2 x 44.0 x 19.2. Built 1917 Wallace Shipyards Ltd. Vancouver British Columbia. Owners: Canada West Coast Navigation Co., registered Vancouver, BC.]