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'Royal Tar' wooden barque at Port Adelaide [PRG 1373/42/14] • Photograph

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Summary

'Royal Tar' wooden barque 598 tons at Port Adelaide waiting to load colonists for South America [wooden 3 mast barque, 598 tons, ON74960, 171.2 x 31.4 x 17.2. Built 1876 William Marshall (of Balmain) Nanbucra River, NSW. Now Nambucca) Owners: William Marshall, registered Sydney; 1882 A McLean and others; 1893 William Walter Head; April 1895 JJ Craig, registered Auckland. Wrecked Shearer Rock, Tiri, Auckland Nov. 26, 1901. Well known for taking some of the Australian settlers to Patagonia for the ill-fated 'New Australia' scheme]

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 10 cm x 19.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

1900s

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

Royal Tar (Ship)

Catalogue record

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General notes

From a volume titled 'New Zealand Owned Shipping Lines and Early Shipping Views'.

This section comprises New Zealand Owned Shipping Lines. The Craig Line, Auckland.

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

21/08/2019

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

7,221 x 3,777 pixels (27.3 MP)

Size

81.84 MB

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