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HMAS Kinchela
HMAS ''Kinchela'' (Z96) was an auxiliary boom gate vessel of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built in 1914 as a cargo vessel for the Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company. Built by Morrison & Sinclair, Balmain, as ''Tamban'', for the Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company, she was launched in 1914. Her compound engines were installed by Wildridge a Sinclair, Balmain. She was operated on the Milsons Point run. She was renamed ''Kinchela'' in October 1915. She collided with a lighter at Darling Harbour on 25 June 1918. She was sold in 1922 to the North Coast Steam Navigation Company. She collided with ''Newcastle'' in Newcastle Harbour on 22 August 1922. She ran aground on the spit at Port Macquarie, New South Wales in March 1933. She was hulked in 1936 and her machinery was removed. Part of her machinery was fitted in ''Nambucca''. Her hull was requisitioned by the RAN on 28 August 1942 and she was converted into an auxiliary boom gate vessel for use in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Kinchela In 1944
His Majesty's Australian Ship (HMAS) (or Her Majesty's Australian Ship when the monarch is female) is a ship prefix used for commissioned units of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). This prefix is derived from HMS (Her/His Majesty's Ship), the prefix used by the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and can be equally applied to warships and shore bases (as Australia follows the British tradition of referring to naval establishments as stone frigates). By the early 21st century, especially when RAN vessels were deployed as part of international coalitions, an unofficial, alternative prefix was sometimes used: "Australian navy ship" (which was not abbreviated). This was typically used in communications at sea with other navies or merchant vessels. This avoided any confusion that may have resulted from RAN ("HMAS") vessels serving alongside British RN ("HMS)" vessels and/or those of other Commonwealth navies. On 10 July 1911, King George V granted the title of Royal Australian Navy to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane River
The Brisbane River (Turrbal language, Turrbal: ) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia. It flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Governors of New South Wales, Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane in 1823. The Moreton Bay Penal Colony, penal colony of Moreton Bay later adopted the same name, eventually becoming the present city of Brisbane. The river is a tide, tidal estuary and the water is brackish water, brackish from its mouth through the majority of the Brisbane metropolitan area westward to the Mount Crosby Weir. The river is wide and navigability, navigable throughout the Brisbane metropolitan area. It is affectionately known by locals as the "Brown Snake", on account of its silty waters and long, winding course. The river travels from Mount Stanley. The river is dammed by the Wivenhoe Dam, forming Lake Wivenhoe, the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Coast Steam Navigation Company
The North Coast Steam Navigation Company was a shipping company that operated in Australia, formed as the Grafton Steam Navigation Company in 1855. The company was later renamed the Clarence & Richmond River Steam Navigation Company before being renamed in December 1888 as the Clarence, Richmond & Macleay River Steam Navigation Company. On 13 August 1891 the company merged with John See and Company and was renamed as the North Coast Steam Navigation Company and was based in Sydney. The steamships ''Noorebar'', ''Cavauba'', ''Dorrigo'', and ''Wollumbin'' were bought from George Wallace Nicoll in 1905, 13 months before he died. In 1920 the company merged with Allan Taylor & Company and continued to operate the fleets under their own names. The company acquired Langley Bros in 1925 and bought the remaining fleet of the Coastal Co-Operative Steamship Company in 1929. The company further acquired the Port Stephens Steamship Company in 1940. Many of the company's vessels were requis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morrison & Sinclair
Morrison & Sinclair was a Sydney, New South Wales based company A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal personality, legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether Natural person, natural, Juridical person, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members ... and one of the great ship and boatbuilding names of Port Jackson. The company was founded in the early 1890s and ceased trading in 1970. History In 1923, Morrison & Sinclair Ltd transferred from Johnstons Bay in Balmain, New South Wales, Balmain to a site at the end of Long Nose Point on the Balmain Peninsula and carried out a shipbuilding operations there until the company ceased trading in 1970. The company designed, constructed and repaired Government vessels, naval, island trading and merchant ships and many Sydney Ferries and yachts. The yacht ''Morna'' (later ''Kurrewa IV''), which won line honours 7 times from 10 starts in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balmain, New South Wales
Balmain is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Inner West Council. It is located on the Balmain peninsula surrounded by Port Jackson, adjacent to the suburbs of Rozelle to the south-west, Birchgrove, New South Wales, Birchgrove to the north-west, and Balmain East to the east. Iron Cove sits on the western side of the peninsula, with White Bay (New South Wales), White Bay on the south-east side and Mort's Dock, Mort Bay on the north-east side. Traditionally Blue-collar worker, blue collar, Balmain was where the industrial roots of the trade unionist movement began. It has become established in Australian working-class culture and history, due to being the place where the Australian Labor Party formed in 1891 and its social history and status is of high cultural significance to both Sydney and New South Wales. Today, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort's Dock & Engineering Company
Mort's Dock is a former dry dock, slipway, and shipyard in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia. It was the first dry dock in Australia, opening for business in 1855 and closing more than a century later in 1959. The site is now parkland. History Mort Bay, J. S. Mort and his partners Mort Bay was originally known as Waterview Bay, and at the corner of the bay was the mouth of a small stream which ran down from Balmain Hill through the valley of Strathean. On its way to the harbour, the stream collected in small waterholes known as the "Curtis Waterholes" after the then landowner James Curtis. In 1842 James Reynolds purchased from Curtis an area of land bounded by what is now Curtis Road down to the water front between Mort and Church Streets, dammed the stream, built a stone house called "Strathean Cottage" and sold fresh water to the ships anchored in the deep calm waters of the bay.EP NSW 2004: 12 The land was then sold to Captain Thomas Rowntree in 1853, who recognised th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
