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Vessels 'Helen', 'Asia' and 'Wild Wave' at Hobart [PRG 1373/40/12] • Photograph

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'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]

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 17.5 cm x 23.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

1800s

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Helen (Ship)
Asia (Ship)
Wild Wave (Ship)

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General notes

From a volume titled 'Tasmanian Owned Vessels and Tasmanian Shipping Views'.

This section comprises 'Tasmanian Whalers'.

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

26/08/2019

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

4,771 x 3,624 pixels (17.3 MP)

Size

51.89 MB

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