GLENELG 218 gross tons, 558 net. Lbd: 135'8" x 21'1" x 11'3". Iron twin screw steamship built by Aitken & Mansel, Glasgow for Thomas Elder & Robert B Smith, registered Port Adelaide. Twin compounded engines producing 80 horsepower. Held distinction of being the first 'southbound' ship to pass through the new Suez Canal on May 24th, 1875. Designed more as a tug - passenger tender vessel with cargo capacity, she worked out of Port Adelaide. Later worked the St Vincents Gulf. 1880 tonnage adjusted to read 210 gross and 76 net. SOld July 1881 to William Wells. Sold April 1882 to Thomas Hesselton, Sydney under whom she made a run to New Zealand for a cargo of salvaged railway equipment. Sold July 1882 to the Port Jackson Steamship Co Ltd., Sydney and employed as a Manly ferry. From January until end of March she was chartered to W Collins, Brisbane and placed upon the Brisbane - Bundaberg run. November 1891 sold to E T Miles & Partners, Hobart and placed upon the Hobart - Strahan run, at times extending from Strahan to Melbourne. At some stage she was sold to T A Reynolds or Reynolds was the active 'signature' partner of E T Miles when sold September 1896 to the Union SS Co, New Zealand, along with with T A Reynolds, Hobart fleet. Continued her Tasmanian services under her new owners until 1898 when sold to A J Ellerker, Melbourne. Here she was placed upon the Gippsland Lakes service - Melbourne. March 25th 1900 foundered and sank in Bass Strait, approximately 40 miles west of Lakes Entrance, Victoria en route for Melbourne. A loss of 31 souls, including all passengers, with only three survivors
BELLINGER 225 gross tons, 134 net. Lbd: 125' x 22'1" x 8'7". Iron steamship, compounded engine producing 45 horsepower, 2 masts schooner rigged and rated at 9.5 knots. Built by J McArthur & Co., Paisley, Glasgow for G W Nicoll, Sydney. Passenger - cargo vessel on the New South Wales Northern river service. Sold December 1884 to the Belfast & Koroit S N Co., Port Fairy Victoria for their Western ports to Melbourne service. 1887 returned to Nicoll's ownership, this time to B B Nicoll. 1890 sold to Captain E T Miles, Hobart. September 1894 sold to T A Reynolds of Hobart. 1896 taken over by Union Steamship Co New Zealand with the rest of T.A. Reynolds, Hobart fleet, 1897 sold to Northern Steamship Co., Auckland, and renamed Muritai. Wrecked upon the New Zealand coast on May 27th 1908. NOTE: Not the Bellinger of North Coast S N Co built 1901
KOONYA 118 gross tons, 80 net. Lbd: 107'2" x 19'4" x 9'6". Wooden steamship built by William Bayes at Hobart, Tasmania for the Risby Brothers who operated her out of Hobart. She was a passenger - cargo vessel engined HP 30 horsepower. Sold January 1889 to the United Steam Ship Co Ltd., Launceston who employed her on the northern and western coastlines of Tasmania. Sold April 1896 to E T Miles (Tasmania). September 1896 purchased by the Moruya S N Co Ltd., Sydney. On the 25th January 1898 when bound for Sydney from Moruya, she was wrecked off Cronulla, New South Wales. No lives lost
ATHLETIC 43 gross tons, 29 net. Lbd: 80'2" x 13'2" x 5'3". Iron screw steamer, built at Sydney, 1872; registered Melbourne 1875. Originally a Port Phillip Bay steamer before being refitted as a cargo vessel between Hobart and Launceston. Captain Edward T. Miles. Stranded on a reef between Cape Portland and the Foster Islands, north-east Tasmania, 11 November 1881. After the crew threw most of the cargo overboard, beached on the south-western side of Foster Island. By the time the paddle steamer Avon reached the Athletic, she had slipped off the reef and sank
PIONEER 75 gross tons, 51 net. Lbd: 94'5" x 15'5" x 7'8". Composite twin screw steamer, built by DS McLarty at Yarrabank Melbourne, 1889. Held an oscillating engine = 40 hp. Owners: H Hart & Partner, Launceston, Tasmania who placed her on the passenger-cargo trade along the North-west coast of Tasmania. Sold 1879 to owners unknown and had many owners since, with runs to many ports of non-descript status, as well as visiting both Sydney and Newcastle. March 1889 owned by Captain E T Miles who placed her upon the Hobart - west coast Tasmanian ports service in passenger-cargo capacity. July 16th, 1891 wrecked at Trial Harbour, Tasmania
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