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Ketches, Port Adelaide [B 10181] • Photograph

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Summary

Ketches "Florence Maud", and "Betty Joan", at Port Adelaide in June 1938. "Florence Maud" carried 23 tons and was built in Tasmania in1887 by Thomas Bennet senior. Grain was loaded onto the ketches at Pine Point using two Clydesdales pulling a scoop. "Betty Joan" was built at Birkinhead in 1933 weighing 78 tons. After being used by the Commonwealth Government during WWII she was washed up on the beach in Darwin during Cyclone Tracy in 1974.

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.9 cm x 15.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

1938

Collection

Part of Port Adelaide Collection

Subject

Betty Joan (Ship)
Florence Maud (Ship)
Sailing ships -- South Australia -- Port Adelaide

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Digitisation information

Date

05/12/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,212 x 2,387 pixels (7.7 MP)

Size

7.70 MB

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