SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
1876-1909
all above images courtesy of State Library Victoria
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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN 656 gross tons, 353 net. Lbd: 226'1" x 26'4" x 13'5". Iron steamship built by D & W Henderson & Co., Meadowside Glasgow as a (100) passenger vessel for the Adelaide Steamship Co., Port Adelaide for their Adelaide - Melbourne passenger trade. Compounded engine producing 436 horsepower with a service speed of 12 knots. 1878 tonnage increased to 716 gross, 412 net and capable of carrying 170 passengers. She was their first regular service steamer to Sydney and became their first steamer to visit Brisbane. Sold February 1898 to A Sneddon, Sydney who converted her into a collier with limited passenger capacity. Chartered out to William Rankin of the Howard Colliery for 3 months early 1899. December 1904 sold to Mutual Shipping Co Ltd., of Fiji. Driven ashore and abandoned on Wallis Island (Tonga) in 1909. She was eventually salvaged and employed as a hulk at Levuka, Fiji until blown ashore and totally wrecked in 1914 (Sister ship Victorian)
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TARCOOLA
1902-36
| TERKA
1925-1944
| TOLGA
1925-1946
| TOORIE
1925-1956
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TARCOOLA image (006500PD) courtesy of State Library Western Australia
TERKA, TOLGA & TOORIE images courtesy of Australian War Memorial
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TARCOOLA 2,647 gross tons. Lbd: 326' x 45'4" x 21'8". Steel steamship built by Tyne Shipbuilbers Co., Willington Quay on Tyne. Service speed of 9 knots. Triple expansion reciprocating steam engine 1400 ihp. Cargo only vessel, serviced the Queensland coast circa 1911. Sold April 1932 to Australian Tramp Steamers Ltd., of Hong Kong. again sold 1933 to Chinese interests and renamed Pei an. Wrecked April 1936 (Tarcoola - aboriginal word for 'Bend in river')
TERKA 420 gross tons. Lbd: 147' x 26'6" x 9'2". Steel steamship built by New South Wales Government Dockyard Newcastle, Australia for and in conjunction with Dorman, Long & Co as the Sir Dudley De Chair. Service speed = 8 knots. Her purpose with Dorman Long & Co was ancilliary to the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Chartered early 1927 by the White Steamship Co, Sydney (J G White) who ran her between Brisbane and Sydney. White Steamship co went into voluntary liquidation July 1927. Acquired by the Adelaide Steamship Co in 1928, renamed Terka and placed upon the Queensland coast lightering sugar to larger vessels. 1940 became RAN auxilliary vessel WW2, as a minesweeper and later as a water carrier. Lost at Madang 26th March 1944 (Terka - aboriginal word for 'Kangaroo')
TOLGA 418 gross tons. Lbd: 147' x 26'6" x 9'2". Steel steamship built by New South Wales Government Dockyard Newcastle, Australia for Dorman, Long & Co, Sydney as the Dorlonco. Service speed = 8 knots. Renamed 1926 as Sir T Hugh Bell. Sold to the Adelaide Steamship Co in 1930 and renamed Tolga. Placed upon the Queensland coast lightering sugar to larger vessels. 1940 became RAN auxilliary vessel WW2, as a minesweeper and later as a water carrier. Purchased by the Navy 1946 and scuttled April same year
TOORIE 414 gross tons. Lbd: 147' x 26'6" x 9'2". Steel steamship built by New South Wales Government Dockyard Newcastle, Australia for Dorman, Long & Co, Sydney as Sir Arthur Dorman. Service speed = 8 knots. Acquired by Adelaide steamship Co 1928 renamed Toorie. Placed upon the Queensland coast lightering sugar to larger vessels. Minesweeper for RAN November 1940 until January 1943. Sold 1956 to Hong Kong for scrapping
Image at Williamstown prior to refit as RAN auxiliary vessel WW2 (Toorie - aboriginal word for 'Water hen')
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TROUBRIDGE
1961-2003+
| TULLY
1910-27
| UCO
1919-65
| ULOOLOO
1924-1962
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TULLY image (32553p) courtesy State Library Queensland
UCO image courtesy State Library New South Wales
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TROUBRIDGE 1,995 tons, 582 net. Lbd: 291'6" x 50'1" x 13'1". Built by Evans, Deakin & Co Ltd., Brisbane as a passenger cargo vehicle ship servicing Port adelaide and the Gulf ports. Service speed of 14.5 knots. She came under the Adelaide Steamship (Operations) Ltd., a subsidiary company of Adelaide Steamship Co. Finally sold outright to the South Australian government 1972 ending 90 plus years of coastal shipping services by the Adelaide Steamship Company. She became a joint venture between R.W. Miller and Co., and the South Australian Government Roads Department on equal shareholdings of 50% each. Worked the Port Adelaide - Kangaroo Island - Port Lincoln service. This was a very profitable ferry service and 'iconic' to many locals. Replaced by the "Island Seaway" 1st June 1987. The partnership between R.W. Miller and Co., and the South Australian Government Roads Department continued on the earlier basis and shareholding. At this date the R.W. Miller and Co., had become a 100% subsidiary of Howard Smith Ltd. Since she went to Malta, 1990 and renamed City of Famagusta. Later European Seaways as the European Glory. Then Poseidon Lines, as the Sea Wave. 1995 Turkey interests as the Karden. 2003 possibly under charter to Gibraltar Lines renamed Marwa, registered in North Korea
TULLY 115 gross tons. Wooden steamship built by D Sullivan, Manning River New South Wales for James Broadford of Townsville. Later J Broadford & Sons Ltd. Service speed of 7 knots. Purchased via liquidators of J Broadford & Sons (along with the steamer 'Goondi') in July 1926. Wrecked Johnstone River North Queensland 1st September, 1927
UCO 386 gross tons. Lbd: 135'4" x 29' x 13'6". Steel steamship built by Murdoch & Murray Ltd., Port Glasgow as the St Kitts. Acquired 1926, renamed and employed as a salvage tug off Fremantle until 1952 when transferred to the WaratahTug & Salvage Co and renamed St Kitts. Withdrawn from sevice 1963. Scrapped 1965 (Uco - aboriginal word for 'Canoe')
ULOOLOO 3,238 gross tons. Lbd: 332' x 46'6" x 23'. Steel steamship built by W Beardmore & Co Ltd, Dalmuir Glasgow as a cargo vessel. Serice speed of 11 knots. Began as a general cargo carrier servicing most states until diverted to the Queensland sugar trade. Sold 1957 to Cambray Prince S S Co., renamed Clyde Breeze. Early 1962 renamed Hankong Scrapped mid 1962 (Ulooloo - aboriginal word for 'Permanent watercourse')
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URILLA
1907-37
| VICTORIAN
1876-95
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VICTORIAN images courtesy of State Library Victoria
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URILLA 1,965 gross tons. Lbd: 275'7" x 40'4" x 18'7". Steel hulled cargo steamship built by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, Middlesborough England for this company. Service speed of 9 knots. Where employed is unknown. Sold August 1931 renamed Shun Hong. 1935 renamed Heng Mei and later same year renamed Lee Ping. Sunk as a blockship Whangou River, March 1937 (Urilla is aboriginal word for 'Running water')
VICTORIAN 653 gross tons, 354 net. Lbd: 225'8" x 26'4" x 13'5". Tonnage increased October 1878 to 718 gross, 415 net. Iron steamship built by D W Henderson, Glasgow. Service speed of 14 knots on 30 tons per coal. Sister ship South Australian. Both built in Scotland for the Adelaide-Melbourne passenger trade. Could carry 100 persons and increased to 170 in 1878. Eventually serviced all of this concern's intercolonial passenger services around Australia. The Victorian was gutted by fire in 1895 while laid up in Johnson Bay, Sydney, alongside the steamship - 'Emu' and her (Victorian) sistership the 'South Australian'. Badly gutted she was converted to a hulk and employed in Townsville and later Melbourne. Finally condemned and scuttled outside Port Phillip Heads Victoria, May 8th 1925
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WAKEFIELD
1877-1920
| WANDILLA
1912-42
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WAKEFIELD image courtesy State Library Queensland
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WAKEFIELD 104 gross tons, 53 net. Lbd: 95'2" x 16'5" x 7'4". Compound direct acting vertical steam engine producing 25 horsepower. Iron steamship built by J Fullerton & Co, Paisley for J J Osborne & Partners, Port Adelaide. Cargo vessel making 8 knots. March 1881 J Darling Jnr & others. January 1883 J Reid of Hobart Town. April 1883 Hobart S N & Trading Co. May 1886 J Williams. April 1889 United S S Co., Launceston. March 1896 purchased by Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd., for the shallow rivers and bar harbours work in north Queensland. Sold August 1910 to the British New Guinea Development Co Ltd, registered Brisbane. Register closed April 1920 and vessel hulked
WANDILLA 7,785 gross tons, 4532 net. Lbd; 411'3" x 56'7" x 34'1". Steel hulled twin screw passenger vessel as built by W Beardmore & Co Ltd., Dalmuir for this concern along with sisterships Warilda & Willochra. Twin quadruple expansion engines = 626nhp on 6 coal fired boilers. Her top speed is recorded as 16.36 knots and her average service speed rated as 14.5 knots. Placed upon the Fremantle - Sydney service, carrying 400 passengers. Requisitioned as a troop transport vessel in May 1915 and converted into a hospital ship July 1916. When serving in the status of Hospital ship, she was torpedoed by a U-boat in February 1918. The torpedo failed to explode. Returned to Adelaide Steamship Co in 1919 as the Company believed there was no future in coastal pasenger services at the time. 1921 sold to Burmuda & West Indies SS Co (Furness-Withy) and renamed Fort St George. 1935 Lloyd Triestino acquired and renamed Cesarea. Renamed Arno 1938. Converted into a hospital ship by the Italian forces during WW2. Torpedoed and sunk 40 miles off Tobruk September 10th 1942 (Wandilla is aboriginal word for 'sister' &/or 'baby')
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WARILDA all images above courtesy State Library New South Wales
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above 1st & 3rd image courtesy Australian War Memorial
centre image courtesy State Library Victoria
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WARILDA 7,713 gross tons, 4477 net. Lbd: 411'6" x 56'7" x 34'1". Twin screw steel passenger ship built by W Beardmore & Co Ltd., Dalmuir for this concern along with sisterships Wandilla & Willochra. Twin quadruple expansion engines = 626nhp on 6 coal fired boilers. Her top speed is recorded as 16 knots and her average service speed rated as 14.5 knots. Commenced passenger services out of Fremantle, Western Australia upon arrival 1912. Capable of almost 400 in three classes. Troopship In August 1915 as requisitioned and in 1916 a hospital ship. Between Southampton and Le Havre, in 1918, she was struck by a torpedo that failed to explode. Following that she was involved in a collison at sea resulting in heavy damage. Tragically, in August 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat in English Channel with the loss of 130 lives. (Warilda is aboriginal word for 'wattle gum' and 'Place of wild honey')
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