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Port Pirie about 1900 [PRG 1373/39/32] • Photograph

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Summary

Shipping, Port Pirie about 1905. Information from a researcher: "I believe the ship next the wharf and bow on is the Glasgow four-masted barque 'Earl of Dunmore' built on the Clyde 1891. The reason I believe this may be the Earl of Dunmore is she had a scroll, or fiddle bow, at the fore-stem rather than the more usual figure-head, this scroll was painted dark colour probably brown, whereas the usual figure heads were usually white, her rig was of double topsails and single t'gallants as the ship in the photo, and had the same arrangement of painted ports, and single hawse-pipe hole each side, (some ships had two each side). Earl of Dunmore was in Port Pirie at least twice, in 1894 and 1897. Another characteristic the Earl of Dunmore had was, she had no chart house on the poop aft, that detail is not visible in this photo.

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Physical description

Photograph (Colour print); 8.6 cm x 13.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

1905

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Earl of Dunmore (Ship)
Ships -- South Australia -- Port Pirie

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General notes

From a volume titled 'Shipping scenes at outports, South Australia'.

This section comprises 'Shipping scenes, Port Pirie about 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

15/02/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,311 x 2,162 pixels (7.2 MP)

Size

21.51 MB

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