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Shipping, Wallaroo January 1906 [PRG 1373/39/47] • Photograph

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Summary

Shipping, Wallaroo January 1906. SS 'Kuranda', barque 'Oakhurst', ship 'Aristomene'. [Kuranda = steel twin screw steamship, ON94193, 928 gross, 585 net tons, 200.0 x 32.1 x 10.2. Built 1901 Gourlay Bros. and Co. Dundee for Australasian United Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Sold 1926 to Singapore, and broken up there in 1936. Built for the Townsville-Cairns mail and passenger service but in 1904-06 was chartered to Adelaide SS Co. for the Spencer Gulf trades. See 'Australian Coastal Passenger Ships' by Parsons, 1981]

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 15 cm x 25 cm

Dates / Publication details

1906

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Kuranda (Ship)
Oakhurst (Ship)
Aristomene (Ship)

Catalogue record

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General notes

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

This section comprises 'Shipping Wallaroo 1905-1938'.

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

3,362 x 2,465 pixels (8.3 MP)

Size

24.89 MB

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