Arthur D. Edwardes : SUMMARY RECORD [PRG 1373] • Photograph

Hulks 'Carmen' and 'Helen'

Hulks 'Carmen' and 'Helen'

Hulks 'Carmen' and 'Helen' at Melbourne, 1933.

Lighter 'Norwester' at Melbourne

Lighter 'Norwester' at Melbourne

Lighter 'Norwester' at Melbourne [iron 3 mast barque, 567 tons. ON50348, 160.0 x 29.2 x 17.0. Built 1864 (9) L Hill and Co. Port Glasgow. Owners: MJ Jamieson, registered Glasgow: later J&G Bulloch, registered London, then J&A Roxburgh]

Hulk 'Fortuna' ex 'Macquarie'

Hulk 'Fortuna' ex 'Macquarie'

Hulk 'Fortuna' ex 'Macquarie' in dock at Sydney [iron ship 1965 gross tons, 1857 net tons. ON70749, 269.8 x 40.1 x 23.7. Built 1875 (6) R&H Green, Blackwall London. Owners: R&H Green. Registered London, 1887 Devitt and Moore; 1903 renamed 'Fortuna' on sale to Norwegian owners and became a coal hulk in Sydney before WW1. The 'Melbourne' ran regularly to Melbourne until 1887 with an average voyage time of 82 days. She was sold in 1897 to Devitt and Moore who renamed the ship 'Macquarie' in 1888 and operated her to Sydney. When Devitt and Moore became associated with Lord Brassey's cadet scheme the 'Macquarie' was employed in training cadets while en route UK-Australia-UK. Very full notes in 'Blackwall Frigates'. Noted in 'Colonial Clippers']

Hulk 'Fortuna' ex 'Macquarie'

Hulk 'Fortuna' ex 'Macquarie'

Hulk 'Fortuna' ex 'Macquarie' in dock at Sydney [iron ship 1965 gross tons, 1857 net tons. ON70749, 269.8 x 40.1 x 23.7. Built 1875 (6) R&H Green, Blackwall London. Owners: R&H Green. Registered London, 1887 Devitt and Moore; 1903 renamed 'Fortuna' on sale to Norwegian owners and became a coal hulk in Sydney before WW1. The 'Melbourne' ran regularly to Melbourne until 1887 with an average voyage time of 82 days. She was sold in 1897 to Devitt and Moore who renamed the ship 'Macquarie' in 1888 and operated her to Sydney. When Devitt and Moore became associated with Lord Brassey's cadet scheme the 'Macquarie' was employed in training cadets while en route UK-Australia-UK. Very full notes in 'Blackwall Frigates'. Noted in 'Colonial Clippers']

'Westralian' steel SS in Fremantle

'Westralian' steel SS in Fremantle

'Westralian' steel SS, 120 tons in Fremantle [steel hull, twin screw steamship, ON120008, 120 gross, 27 net tons. 128.9 x 16.0 x 9.3. Built 1905 Hoskins and Co., WA (actually a replating of the hull of the former pleasure steamer 'Manx Fairy' built in 1887) Twin compound steam engines, 300 indicated horsepower 14 knots built by Hutson and Corbett, Glasgow for the 'Manx Fairy'. Two funnels, pleasure steamer until 1921. Owners: Manx Fairy Ltd., registered Fremantle. Sept. 1906 Westralian Pleasure Ltd., registered Fremantle. Sept. 1906 Westralian Pleasure SS Co. Ltd. May 1913 McIlwraith, M Eachern Ltd. Dec. 1921 EL Spears, Strathfield NSW registered Sydney. 1923 J Rowe and Co. Pty. Ltd., registered Hobart, later AJ Callenger. Hulked on the eastern shore of the Derwent River, Hobart, in the 1940s and gradually demolished]

'Victoria' iron steam launch

'Victoria' iron steam launch

'Victoria' iron steam launch, 15 tons.

'Narrabeen' iron paddle steamer

'Narrabeen' iron paddle steamer

'Narrabeen' iron paddle steamer, 239 tons [iron hulled double ended paddle steam ferry, 239 gross tons ON93554, 160.0 x 22.0 x 9.2. Built 1886 Mort's Dock and Eng. Co. Ltd. Balmain, NSW compound steam engine by shipbuilder, 65hp, 13 knots carried approx. 850 passengers. Converted to cargo ship 1911. Hulked 1917. Owners: Port Jackson Steamship Co. Ltd., registered Sydney. Later the Port Jackson and Manly SS Co. Ltd. See 'Sydney Ferry Fleets' AM Prescott, 1984]

'Titanic' steel SS

'Titanic' steel SS

'Titanic' steel SS, 46,380 tons [steel triple screw steamship, ON?. 46,380 gross tons. 852.5 x 92.5 x 59.6. Built 1911 Harland and Wolff Ltd. Belfast. Twin quad. expans. steam engines for outside screws, and centre screw driven by low press. turbine. 6906nhp by shipbuilder. Owners: Oceanic SN Co. Ltd. registered Liverpool]