Arthur D. Edwardes : SUMMARY RECORD [PRG 1373] • Photograph

'Helen' wooden barque

'Helen' wooden barque

'Helen' wooden barque 343 tons discharging 150 tons of whale oil at Hobart [wooden 3 mast barque, ON49280, 343 tons, 135.3 x 25.3 x 15.8. Built 1864 R Steele, Greenock. Owners: JB Watt, registered Sydney. March 1867 Charles Bayley, registered Hobart Town. June 1867 Charles Bayley and Alex McGregor. Jan. 1873 Bayley, McGregor and George M Evans. Aug. 1885 Alex McGregor. c.1901 Cowper & Taylor. 1913 (Oct) Victorian Lighterage Co. Ltd., registered Melbourne and hulked]

Vessels 'Helen', 'Asia' and 'Wild Wave' at Hobart

Vessels 'Helen', 'Asia' and 'Wild Wave' at Hobart

'Helen' wooden barque 343 tons whaler, 'Asia' wooden barque 308 tons whaler, 'Wild Wave' wooden barque 223 tons trader, at Hobart. ['Asia' = wooden three mast barque, whaler ON10251. 308 tons, 123.0 x 25.7 x 14.7. Built 1859 (7) Cochar, Montrose (Forfarshire) Owners: originally owned in Arbroath. March 1870 A. McGregor, S. Kennedy and J. Bayley, registered Hobart. Sept. 1880 Alex McGregor and James Bayley. Dec. 1895 GR Greenwood registered Auckland. 1898 D. Sheehy registered Sydney (and made into a hulk) 1901 Lever Bros. Ltd.] [wooden 3 mast barque, ON49280, 343 tons, 135.3 x 25.3 x 15.8. Built 1864 R Steele, Greenock. Owners: JB Watt, registered Sydney. March 1867 Charles Bayley, registered Hobart Town. June 1867 Charles Bayley and Alex McGregor. Jan. 1873 Bayley, McGregor and George M Evans. Aug. 1885 Alex McGregor. c.1901 Cowper & Taylor. 1913 (Oct) Victorian Lighterage Co. Ltd., registered Melbourne and hulked]

'Loongana'

'Loongana'

'Loongana' wooden barque 279 tons at Sydney.

'Loongana' wooden barque in Hobart

'Loongana' wooden barque in Hobart

'Loongana' wooden barque 279 tons at Hobart [wooden 3 mast barque, 294 gross, ON57598, 127.0 x 26.0 x 12.9. Built 1879 (4) J McGregor, Hobart, owners: A&J McGregor, Hobart. c. 1891 Loo TomFin (South Sea Island merchant) registered Sydney. Wrecked at Butaritari Lagoon, Gilbert Islands, January 1912. (Name is Aboriginal for 'Swift')

'Harriet McGregor' wooden barque

'Harriet McGregor' wooden barque

'Harriet McGregor' wooden barque 339 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 339gross, 331 net tons. ON57514, 134.2 x 27.6 x 15.9. Built 1871. Hobart Town. Owners: Alexander McGregor, registered Hobart. Sold foreign at Copenhagen in 1895 and register closed. See 'Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters' by H O'May. Colonial Clippers]

'Harriet McGregor' wooden barque

'Harriet McGregor' wooden barque

'Harriet McGregor' wooden barque 339 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 339gross, 331 net tons. ON57514, 134.2 x 27.6 x 15.9. Built 1871. Hobart Town. Owners: Alexander McGregor, registered Hobart. Sold foreign at Copenhagen in 1895 and register closed. See 'Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters' by H O'May. Colonial Clippers]

Vessels 'Asia' and 'Harriet McGregor'

Vessels 'Asia' and 'Harriet McGregor'

'Asia' wooden barque 308 tons and 'Harriet McGregor' wooden barque 339 tons.

Vessels SS 'Monarch', 'Helen' and 'Barden'

Vessels SS 'Monarch', 'Helen' and 'Barden'

SS 'Monarch', 'Helen' wooden barque 345 tons, 'Barden' barquentine 400 tons.

'Wild Wave' wooden barque

'Wild Wave' wooden barque

'Wild Wave' wooden barque 223 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 251 gross, 237 net tons, later 258 gross, 223 net tons. ON74462. 119.1 x 27.1 x 12.0. Built 1875 Liverpool, reportedly bought on the stocks by John Fisher in 1875. Owners: John Fisher, registered Hobart, 1876, later the same year Fisher and Facy. c.1909 The Hobart Timber Co., who enroll ship at Port Adelaide, in May 1913. Wrecked near Stanley, NW Tasmania, June 4, 1923]

'Lenna' wooden ketch

'Lenna' wooden ketch

'Lenna' wooden ketch 41 tons [wooden auxiliary 2 mast ketch. ON105697 41 gross, 38 net tons. 64.6 x 20.0 x 5.2. Oil engine 20bhp. Built 1903 Port Cygnet, Tasmania. Owners: S Purdon, registered Hobart]

'Leprena'

'Leprena'

'Leprena' immediately after launching with her builders, March 1922 [wooden 2 mast ketch. ON131506. 70 gross, 67 net tons. 75.0 x 22.5 x 6.8. Built 1912 Philip B Forbes, Lake Macquarie, NSW and registered at Port Adelaide in 1923, having formerly been owned in Melbourne. Lengthened and renamed 'Leprena' in May 1938 = 105 gross, 85 net tons. 92.8 x 22.8 x 6.6. Requisitioned by Commonwealth Government during WW2 but returned to commerical service in 1946. Ultimately became a fishing vessel and was destroyed by fire off Port Moorowie, SA Feb. 12, 1964. See 'Ketches of South Australia' Parsons, 1978] [wooden 3 mast fore and aft schooner, ON151549. 143 tons. 110.0 x 26.0 x 10.1. Built 1922 Purdon and Featherstone, Battery Point Hobart. Owners: Rooganah Ltd. registered Hobart. Wrecked in March 1925 on a voyage Hobart - Port Adelaide off Eddystone Point, Tasmania. See 'Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters' by H O'May]

'Leprena' wooden schooner at Port Adelaide

'Leprena' wooden schooner at Port Adelaide

'Leprena' wooden schooner at Port Adelaide [wooden 2 mast ketch 143 tons ON131506. 70 gross, 67 net tons. 75.0 x 22.5 x 6.8. Built 1912 Philip B Forbes, Lake Macquarie, NSW and registered at Port Adelaide in 1923, having formerly been owned in Melbourne. Lengthened and renamed 'Leprena' in May 1938 = 105 gross, 85 net tons. 92.8 x 22.8 x 6.6. Requisitioned by Commonwealth Government during WW2 but returned to commerical service in 1946. Ultimately became a fishing vessel and was destroyed by fire off Port Moorowie, SA Feb. 12, 1964. See 'Ketches of South Australia' Parsons, 1978] [wooden 3 mast fore and aft schooner, ON151549. 143 tons. 110.0 x 26.0 x 10.1. Built 1922 Purdon and Featherstone, Battery Point Hobart. Owners: Rooganah Ltd. registered Hobart. Wrecked in March 1925 on a voyage Hobart - Port Adelaide off Eddystone Point, Tasmania. See 'Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters' by H O'May]

'Lunawanna' wooden ketch

'Lunawanna' wooden ketch

'Lunawanna' wooden ketch [wooden 2 mast aux. ketch ON124548, 25 gross, 23 net tons. 54.8 x 17.2 x 4.9. Built 1911 Hobart. (Note from Ron Parsons = 'G Broxam advises that from his knowledge this is not the vessel named. RHP June 1989)]

'Birngana' wooden ketch

'Birngana' wooden ketch

'Birngana' wooden ketch 29 tons.[wooden 2 masted ketch. ON57635, 29 gross, 25 net tons. 60.5 x 15.8 x 4.4. Built 1893 John Wilson, Pt. Cygnet. Tasmania. 15bhp eng.

'Shannon' wooden ketch

'Shannon' wooden ketch

'Shannon' wooden ketch 49 tons [wooden 2 mast barge (ketch) ON32046. 49 tons, 72.7 x 17.2 x 6.1. Built 1856 Mark Hill and John Wood, Huon River Tasmania. Owners: Hill and Wood, registered Hobart; August 1859 Henry Pearce; February 1861 A Rheuben; August 1866 George Brown; Sept. 1873 J Hurst who died June 1877; May 1878 WH Cheverton; August 1908 L&W Gorringe; February 1913 HG Gray and H Pilgrim]

'Grace Darling' wooden schooner

'Grace Darling' wooden schooner

'Grace Darling' wooden schooner 82 tons [wooden 2 mast schooner, 82 tons. ON57502, 83.2 x 20.3 x 8.1. Built 1869 Hobart. Owners (came to Port Adelaide in 1873) William Tulloch, registered Port Adelaide. Sold to Fremantle in May 1892 and wrecked Feb. 4, 1914]

'Grace Darling' wooden schooner

'Grace Darling' wooden schooner

'Grace Darling' wooden schooner 82 tons at Port Adelaide [wooden 2 mast schooner, 82 tons. ON57502, 83.2 x 20.3 x 8.1. Built 1869 Hobart. Owners (came to Port Adelaide in 1873) William Tulloch, registered Port Adelaide. Sold to Fremantle in May 1892 and wrecked Feb. 4, 1914]

Vessel 'Fairy Rock' wooden snow

Vessel 'Fairy Rock' wooden snow

'Fairy Rock' wooden snow 192 tons as built.

Vessel 'Fairy Rock' wooden snow

Vessel 'Fairy Rock' wooden snow

'Fairy Rock' wooden snow 192 tons.

'Lufra' composite barque 705 tons

'Lufra' composite barque 705 tons

'Lufra' composite barque 705 tons [iron ship, altered to barque c.1875. 705 tons. ON62437. 179.7 x 31.7 x 17.9. Built 1870 (1) A Hall and Co. Aberdeen. Owners: William Anderson and Co. registered Banff; by 1875 AG Webster and Co., registered Hobart; c.1877 Alex. McGregor, registered Hobart, and later AE Risby of Hobart. About the turn of the century sold to Scandinavia and drops from the register c.1909. Lubbock claims the vessel was built as a China Clipper but was too late for the trade. She spent most of her life in the England-Australia trade, and when enrolled at Hobart was a regular trader to England]

'Zephyr' wooden brigantine

'Zephyr' wooden brigantine

'Zephyr' wooden brigantine 135 tons [wood 2 mast brigantine, 135 tons, ON38812, 102.0 x 21.4 x 10.3. Built 1866 John Cuthbert, Sydney. Owners: May 1868 S Horne (Melbourne) and J Chesney (Hokitika) registered Melbourne. Aug. 1886 M Royse (Dunedin); Nov. 1890 etc.

'Acacia' wooden barque

'Acacia' wooden barque

'Acacia' wooden barque 233 tons.[ Wood 3 mast barque, 233 tons, ON57515, 118.0 x 24.0 x 12.0, Built 1871 Hobart Town, T. Owners: W. Belbin & C. Dowdell, reg. Hobart Town May 1880 W. Belbin, Aug. 1890 Frederick W. Belbin. Oct. 1893 William George Browne; Nov. 1900 RR Rex & TC Herbert. Missing. Left Port Esperance, Tas. for Port Adelaide June 20, 1904 and lost with all hands. Wreckage subsequently found off southern Tasmania. Well known whaling vessel when built but transferred to general cargo work.]

'Acacia' wooden barque

'Acacia' wooden barque

'Acacia' wooden barque 233 tons.

'Acacia' wooden barque

'Acacia' wooden barque

'Acacia' wooden barque 233 tons.

'Acacia' wooden barque

'Acacia' wooden barque

'Acacia' wooden barque 233 tons.

'Emily Downing' wooden barque

'Emily Downing' wooden barque

'Emily Downing' wooden barque 269 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 269 tons, ON32047. 90.0 x 26.3 x 17.8. Built 1841 Port Arthur VDL and named Lady Franklin and was used by the colonial government. Sold out of government service in 1855 and she was renamed. Owners FA Downing and Charles DeGraves, registered Hobart Town. July 1859 James Lucas; Sept. 1864 Alexander McGregor. Register closed in 1898 'Broken up'. 'Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters' by O'May. Government Printer, Tasmania. '...whaler..continued to whale out of Hobart until 1883 when she returned from her last cruise with 47 tuns of oil...she was sold to the government and became a powder hulk....]

'SMHT' wooden ketch

'SMHT' wooden ketch

'SMHT' wooden ketch 46 tons [wooden aux. 2 mast ketch 57 gross, 47 net tons. ON78366. 68.7 x 18.2 x 6.8. Built 1878 John Graydon, Freeman Bay Auckland, as a cutter and named 'Annie'. Altered into a ketch in June 1881 and in 1887 sold by New Zealand owners to A&J Johnson and registered Hobart. Wrecked at Swansea Tasmania. August 1877. Salvaged and rebuilt by Messrs Johnson at Kelvedon, near Hobart and enrolled in 1888 as a new ship with the ON57618 but later her original number, issued in Auckland was restored. In 1888 sold to JS Chapman . 1897 Rockwell and Easther; 1898 WJ Taylor who renamed her 'SMHT' Sept. 29, 1903 (allegedly for Sarah, Mary and Harriet Taylor) Later sold to FW Cook and registered Melbourne. Then LJ Pearsall, of Hobart]

'Chanticleer' wooden brigantine

'Chanticleer' wooden brigantine

'Chanticleer' wooden brigantine 221 tons. [wooden 2 mast brig. (Caption says barque???) 186 tons (originally 194 tons) 101.0 x 24.6 x 12.2. Built 1859 La Have, Nova Scotia. Owners: formerly registered in Halifax NS. April 1868 JT Rolls, registered Melbourne August 1868 Charles Dowdell registered Hobart Town September 1868 C. Dowdell and William Belbin. Register closed with 'supposed to have been lost on the coast of New Zealand in 1875'. See New Zealand Shipwrecks, Ingram p. 169. NB. caption says barque - if the vessel shown is a barque it had nothing to do with the above, nor Tasmanian shipowners.]

'Lemael' wooden schooner

'Lemael' wooden schooner

'Lemael' wooden schooner 98 tons ashore at Semaphore South Australia [wooden 2 mast schooner, 98 tons. ON79300, 101.7 x 26.3 x 7.7. Built 1892 James Dyson, Duck River, Tasmania, as a 3 mast fore and aft schooner, altered in 1905. First owner, Joseph Lee, registered Launceston. By 1921 T Holyman. Wrecked at Cape Banks, South Australia, July 21, 1921]

'Edward' wooden brigantine

'Edward' wooden brigantine

'Edward' wooden brigantine 270 tons [wooden 2 mast brig. 270 tons, ON119235, 121.3 x 26.8 x 12.3. Built 1874 Thronhjerms SB Co. Drontheim, Norway. Owners (Formerly owned in Drontheim), 1904 Kennedy Bros., registered Hobart later Edward Raylor (trading as Edward Sailing Ship Co.) totally wrecked Sept. 29, 1912 at Point Nepean Victoria when she dragged her anchors and drifted ashore]