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Shipping at Sydney, schooner 'Vale', barque 'Altcar' and barque 'Brunette' [PRG 1373/32/30] • Photograph

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Shipping at Sydney in the 1880's with the schooner 'Vale', and barques 'Altcar' and 'Brunette.' [Brunette iron 3 mast barque, 382 gross, ON? 141.0 x 25.3 x 15.6. Built 1859 Chas. Lungley, Deptford (London) sold foreign and renamed Pride of the West, returns to British owners at Glasgow in 1870 reverts to original name 1870 - GR Dibbs, reg. Sydney: June 1880 John Frazer: March 1881, JC Ellis: 1890 TH Holdship and hulked. Jan 1892 McIlwraith, MacEacharn Ltd. Towed to sea and scuttled, register closed in 1913. Always a collier whilst in Australian ownership] ['Vale' = wooden 2 mast topsail schooner, 65 tons. ON74888. 76.0 x 18.9 x 7.0. Built 1876 John Burrell and Josiah Quiggen, Crookhaven, NSW. J O'Dwyre and J Berril, rergistered Sydney; 1878/9 Robert Langley; April 1897 SM Nielson, registered Port Adelaide. Wrecked off Cape Borda, SA, Feb. 26, 1900]. Sydney Town Hall is on the horizon so this is somewhere on Darling Harbour West.

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Physical description

Photograph; 20 cm x 15.4 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1880

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Vale (Ship)
Altcar (Ship)
Brunette (Ship)
Pride of the West (Ship)
Shipping -- New South Wales -- Sydney
Schooners
Ships, Wooden
Ships, Iron and steel
Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)

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General notes

From the volume titled 'Early Australian Shipping Scenes 1850-1908: Sydney Harbour, Circular Quay, Wooloomooloo Bay, Newcastle'.

This section comprises scenes of Sydney Harbour 1850-1900.

This image is from the A.D. Edwardes Collection of about 8,000 photographs, mostly of sailing ships from around the world, taken between about 1865 and 1920. Mounted in 91 albums, the photographs are arranged by country of ownership, with some special volumes such as 'Shipping at Port Adelaide' and 'South Australian outports'. Additional information, giving the history of the ships where known, has been provided by maritime historian, Ron Parsons.

Digitisation information

Date

17/04/2019

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

4,881 x 3,745 pixels (18.3 MP)

Size

54.86 MB

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