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S.A. Company's Basin [B 6485] • Photograph

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Summary

[General description] Sailing ships moored at a Port Adelaide wharf. The deck of the ketch in the foreground is crowded with men from the surveying expedition mentioned below. Warehouses can be seen in the background including one with the name Robert Charlick, feed merchant. [On back of photograph] 'S.A. Company's Basin, Pt. Adelaide / From the bridge at the entrance of the basin / A ketch leaving for Arno Bay with surveyors / June 24, 1877 / . Party members: W.C. Gosse, J.C. Hawker, W. Clindening, Chas. Wells, H. Melville, L.C.E. Gee, G.E.H. Ayliffe, Louis Farr, - Kershaw'.

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.4 cm x 14.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1877

Collection

Part of Port Adelaide Collection

Subject

Gee, Lionel C. E. (Lionel Carley Egremont)
Gosse, William, 1812-1883
Hawker, James C. (James Collins), 1821-1901
Clindening, William T. D., 1855-1919
Wells, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1849-1897
Sailing ships -- South Australia -- Port Adelaide
Surveyors -- South Australia -- Port Adelaide

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Historical information

Information supplied by a researcher: There are two references to this trip on 'Trove': 'The Express and Telegraph' (Adelaide), Thurday 26 July 1877, page 2; and 'The Register', Tuesday 12 February 1924, page 12. Looking at these references and the sailing reports at the end of July, it seems pretty clear that the newspaper reports cited confused the 'Euro' with the 'Royal Shepherd'. The former was making the Moonta and Port Pirie runs during this period, and the latter the Port Lincoln run: left Adelaide on Tuesday, 24 July, as the reports claim (the 'Euro' left for Port Pirie on the Wednesday), arrived Arno Bay on 27 July and was back in Adelaide on 29 July. She left again for Port Lincoln on 1 August, so was making the regular Port Lincoln run, whilst the 'Euro' made the regular Port Pirie run. Another researcher has provided the following information: 'The researcher's comments under Historical Information are erroneous as both the Royal Shepherd and Euro were steamers. The vessel in the photo is clearly a sailing ketch. While conclusive identification is not yet possible, this could be the ketch Edith Alice that cleared Port Adelaide on 26 June 1877 bound for Salt Creek [Tumby Bay]'. See: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208185830?searchTerm=%22Edith

Digitisation information

Date

01/09/2010

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,234 x 2,574 pixels (8.3 MP)

Size

25.00 MB

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