Adelaide (ship)
History | |
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Name | Adelaide |
Ship registration number: | Unknown |
Ship official number: | Unknown |
Status | historic shipwreck |
General characteristics | |
Type | Wood Cutter |
Tonnage | GT |
Displacement | NT |
Length | m |
Beam | m |
Draught | m |
Installed power | NA |
Ship primary use: | Transport |
Ship industry: | |
Ship passenger capacity: |
33°36′S 151°18′E / 33.6°S 151.3°E Adelaide was a wooden cutter used in the cedar trade that was wrecked and lost off the Hawkesbury River in Broken Bay, New South Wales, in July 1837 while carrying a load of cedar. The wreck has not been located, but a vessel of its description was reported capsized between Cabbage Tree Bay and Bird Island at approximately 33.6°S 151.3°E.
References
- ^ "View Shipwreck - Adelaide". Australian National Shipwreck Database. Ausatralian government. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
Further reading
Online Databases
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [1]
Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks [2]
Books
- Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 ISBN 978-0-646-11081-3.
- Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2, Call number 910.4530994 BAT
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 2 1851–1871 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Sydney. Reed, 1980 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871–1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 4 1901–1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1987 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 5 Update 1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1991 910.4530994 LON