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Port Adelaide [B 2220] • Photograph

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Summary

Port Adelaide from G. French Angas' water colour. In the foreground is a party of passengers alighting from a ship's dinghy. On the right is the 'Ville de Bordeaux', a three masted wooden ship of 822 tons, built in 1836 in Bordeaux, France. She had a short career as a French whaler and then as a merchant vessel in Australia. She was seized by Port Adelaide Harbour Master, Robert Torrens, in 1842, in a controversial action, and never again left Port Adelaide. She was used as a light ship until 1852, when she was used as a coal hulk. In 1865 the hull was broken up but the figurehead, a man wielding a harpoon, can be viewed at the South Australian Maritime Museum. On the opposite shore are the iron stores which originally stood at the old Port.

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Physical description

Repro. of a sketch; 29.2 cm x 16.3 cm

Dates / Publication details

1844

Artist

Angas, George French

Collection

Part of Port Adelaide Collection

Subject

Ville de Bordeaux (Ship)
Port Adelaide (S.A.)

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Digitisation information

Date

31/03/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,452 x 1,921 pixels (6.6 MP)

Size

19.92 MB

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