Berrys Bay is a bay located to the east of the
Waverton Peninsula and the west of
McMahons Point, on the north of
Sydney Harbour
Port Jackson, commonly known as Sydney Harbour, is a ria, natural harbour on the east coast of Australia, around which Sydney was built. It consists of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove River, Lane ...
.
A number of ship building firms operate from the bay.
History
Shipbuilding
William Alfred Dunn (1839 – 1915) established a boat-building yard at Berry's Bay in the 1870s.
[Family records, Ancestry.com.] In 1878 Dunn built Sydney's first
steamer with
propeller
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s at both ends for the North Shore Ferry Company, for passenger
ferry
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service in Sydney Harbour. Dunn's boatyard at Berry's Bay built ferry-boats,
tugboat
A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line. These boats typically tug ships in circumstances where they cannot or should not move under their own power, suc ...
s and
lighters
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, as well as sailing boats and steam yachts. His sons, Charles and William Dunn, also became boat-builders.
Walter McFarlane Ford (1841 – 1934) established a shipbuilding yard at Berry's Bay in 1878, which, over a period of 40 years, turned out a variety of vessels, including pearling
schooner
A schooner ( ) is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel defined by its Rig (sailing), rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more Mast (sailing), masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than t ...
s, island and mission vessels,
surfboats and racing yachts and
cruisers.
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A maritime precinct
In 2008 the Government of New South Wales
The Government of New South Wales, also known as the NSW Government, is the executive state government of New South Wales, Australia. The government comprises 11 portfolios, led by a ministerial department and supported by several agencies. Th ...
called for Expressions of Interest for the private sector to develop a maritime precinct at Berrys Bay. In 2013 Roads & Maritime Services
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The wo ...
and Government Property NSW entered into an agreement to lease with Pacifica Developments (formerly known as Meridien Marinas) to develop a maritime precinct at this site. No later information is available on this project.
In March 2021 Transport for NSW
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appointed a Berrys Bay Community and Stakeholder Working Group to help shape a fresh vision for this historic Waverton harbourside location. The group was scheduled to meet for the first time in April. In February 2022 ownership of the Qurantine Depot site passed to North Sydney Council
North Sydney Council is a local government area on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, established on 29 July 1890 through the amalgamation of three boroughs.
The area is bounded by Willoughby to the north and north-w ...
.Unlocking the Berrys Bay foreshore with the transformation of Quarantine Depot site
Department of Planning & Environment 4 February 2022
References
Bays of New South Wales
Sydney Harbour
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