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


'Morglay'
'Morglay' repairing a buoy at Port Victoria [steel single screw steam tug, ON145374, 171 gross, 2 net tons. Built 1921 Bow, McLachlan and Co., Paisley. 101.0 x 23.1 x 9.8. Triple expans. recip. steam engines. 750 indicated horse power. Eleven and a half knots, engine by shipbuilder. Owners: Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., registered Southampton. March 1926 SA Harbors Board, who originally called her 'No. 394'. Broken up in August 1961. See 'Steam Tugs in SA' by Parsons]


'Conqueror'
'Conqueror' employed to maintain lights and buoys. [wooden single screw steam tug. ON101109, 93 gross, 63 net tons. Built 1893 (10). Dunn Bros, Berry's Bay North Sydney. 81.0 x 18.0 x 9.5. Compound steam engine, 35nhp. Ross and Duncan Glasgow. Owners James Wallace registered Sydney. Oct 1906 Govt. of South Australia. April 1914 S.A. Harbors Board. Withdrawn from service c.1935 and eventually broken up. Unconfirmed reports claim she was used as a coal hulk to supply the Board's other steamers for some years. Built for service in Sydney and for a brief period was used as a Manly ferry. See 'Steam Tugs in SA' by Parsons.]


'Uraidla'
'Uraidla' at work, Port Adelaide [wooden single screw steam tug, ON112568, 168 gross 48 net tons. Built 1902. The Adelaide Steam Ship Co. Ltd., Waterview Bay Sydney. 104.0 x 22.7 x11.2. Compound steam engine 54nhp, 400 indicated hp, 12.5 knots, D&W Henderson, Glasgow, ex 'Rob Roy'. Owners: The Adelaide Steam Ship Co. Ltd., registered Port Adelaide; 1927 the Adelaide Steam Tug Co. Ltd. Sold 1949 to AR Leo for demolition in Port Adelaide. See 'Steam Tugs in SA' by Parsons]


'Annie E Price'
'Annie E Price' - boarding launch. [Annie E Price (which is incorrect, the proper name being Anne E Price - the wife of Premier Thomas Price) wood single screw motor launch, built c.1900 in the Government dockyard (?) for use as a boarding launch for the pilots employed by the Marine Board of SA. Three cylinder kerosene engine. Withdrawn from service about 1926.]


'Annie E Price'
'Annie E Price' - boarding launch.[Annie E Price (which is incorrect, the proper name being Anne E Price - the wife of Premier Thomas Price) wood single screw motor launch, built c.1900 in the Government dockyard (?) for use as a boarding launch for the pilots employed by the Marine Board of SA. Three cylinder kerosene engine. Withdrawn from service about 1926.]


'SS Governor'
'SS Governor'.


'Parmelia'
'Parmelia'.


No. 2 dredge
No. 2 dredge.


No. 2 dredge
No. 2 dredge.


No. 3 dredge
No. 3 dredge.


No. 3 dredge
No. 3 dredge.


No. 5 dredge
No. 5 dredge.


'Dredge No. 5' and 'SS Cowrie'
'Dredge No. 5' and 'SS Cowrie' at Port Adelaide, about 1890.


'Dredge No. 5' and 'SS Cowrie'
'Dredge No. 5' and 'SS Cowrie' at Port Adelaide, about 1890.


Unidentified dredge at Port Adelaide
Unidentified dredge at Port Adelaide.


A dredge at work, Port Adelaide
A dredge at work, Port Adelaide.


'Adelaide' dredge and 'Aristides' ketch
'Adelaide' dredge and 'Aristides' ketch. [ 'Adelaide' - steel, single screw bucket dredge, no official nr. 717 gross, 427n tons, 161.2 x 36.0 x 12.2, B. 1910 (7) AF Smulders, Schiedamn, compound steam eng., by shipbuilder. Owners: South Australian Harbors Board.]


'Adelaide' dredge
'Adelaide' dredge.


'Dredge No. 9'
'Dredge No. 9'.


'Loch Tay' hulk
'Loch Tay' hulk, at Port Adelaide [iron ship, 1250 tons, ON60468, 225.4 x 35.5 x 21.6. Built 1869 (10) Barclay, Curle and Co. Glasgow. Owners: JP Kidston, registered Glasgow, later Glasgow Shipping Co. (Aitken and Lilburn, managers) registered Glasgow. Sold Nov. 1909 Huddart, Parker Ltd, Registered Port Adelaide and Converted into coal hulk. Register closed in 1958 when advice received vessel broken up]


'Garthneill' hulk
'Garthneill' hulk, at Port Adelaide. (Used for grain storage) [built as 'Inverneill' q.v. Hulked in South Australia 1926]


'Cumbrian' hulk (right), and 'Candida' hulk (left)
'Cumbrian' hulk (right) and 'Candida' hulk (left) at Port Adelaide, 1930. [Cumbrian = iron barque 1083 tons, ON81309, 214.5 x 34.4 x 21.4. Built 1879 (9) R Thompson jnr. Sunderland. Owners P Iredale and Porter registered Liverpool. Hulk owned by McIlwraith, McEacharn P/L Melbourne]


'Adele' steel steam yacht
'Adele' steel steam yacht, 288 tons.[steel, single screw steam yacht, 288 gross, 131 n tons, ON123022 145.0 x 22.4 x 13.2, built 1906 Hawthorn & Co, Leith, Triple expans. recip stm eng, 68nhp. Owners: Edgar Arthur Munday, reg. Pt. Adelaide c.1908 (or was Munday only an agent?) Henry Dutton. Purchased by RAN 1915 for a tender at Jervis Bay, and commissioned Sept. 14, 1915 as HMAS Franklin. Taken out of commission in 1921 she was transferred to New Guinea in 1924 as an official vessel. Laid up in 1932 she was sold and regained the name 'Adele' while in use as a private yacht. Her last registered owner was CP Relph. She was requisitioned by the RAN in Sept 1939 and made an examination vessel. While on duty at Port Kembla, NSW she was wrecked after colliding with the breakwater May 7, 1943. Also known as 'Franklin": HMAS and or owned by Australian Government and operating in New Guinea]


'Adele' steel steam yacht
'Adele' steel steam yacht, 288 tons [also known as 'Franklin': HMAS and or owned by Australian Government and operating in New Guinea]


'Surprise' wooden steam tug
'Surprise' wooden steam tug, 33 tons [wooden single screw steam tug, ON88964, 33 gross, 16 net tons, Built 1888 Melbourne Coal, Shipping and Engineering Co. Ltd. Williamstown, Victoria. Tandem compound steam engine, 20hp, by shipbuilder. Owners: Melbourne Coal, Shipping and Engineering Co. Ltd., registered Melbourne. 1893 Melbourne SS Co. Ltd. May 1900 Ritch and Smith, registered Port Adelaide. Sold 1939 to LA Morrell for demolition. Register closed in 1961 with 'Broken up'. See 'Steam Tugs in SA' by Parsons]


Coal hulks at Port Adelaide in the 1890's
Coal hulks at Port Adelaide in the 1890's.


Shipping at Bristol about 1845
Shipping at Bristol about 1845. Paddle-wheel tug with clinker-built hull.


'Restless' iron steam paddle tug and 'Hallowe'en' ship
Iron steam paddle tug 'Restless'; ship 'Hallowe'en.


'Richelieu' French 4 masted barque
'Richelieu' French 4 masted barque towed by Liverpool tugs.


'Titan' Dutch steel steam tug and 'Atlantique' 4 masted barque
'Titan' Dutch steel steam tug 352 tons, towing 4 masted barque 'Atlantique' ['Titan' = steel single screw steam tug, 352 gross, 324 net tons, 147.1 x 24.3 x 12.7. Built 1894 (11) Rijkee and Co. Rotterdam. Triple expans. recip. steam engines. 165nhp. Owners: Amsterdam Tug and Salvage Co., registered Amsterdam]