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18 footer KERIKI under sail, Sydney Harbour

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  • sydneyarbor said:
    Heading to Sow and Pigs.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    sydneyarbor Thanks :) It is an amazing shot, and I have seen it turn up in various places. A coloured version appeared on the cover of Australian Motor Boat and Yachting Monthly, October 1925.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks QM, I'm pretty sure you can even see this great pic on the wall of the Sydney Flying Squadron :)
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169771862 - this pic appeared as a full page feature in the Sydney Mail on 21st January, 1922...

    The Sydney Mail's title/caption: 'Exhilarating Sport on Sydney Harbour...Visitors to Sydney frequently express astonishment at the clever manner in which the open boats that stud the waters at week-ends and on holidays are handled by their crews. The sport is often thrilling, and its devotees are very numerous. Our picture shows the eighteen-footer Keriki, sailed by Mr. Lan Taylor, of Lavender Bay.'

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16106479 - the pic also appeared in the SMH on 10th March, 1924...it was evidently one of a number of photos of sailing on Sydney Harbour that Hall & Co were then sending to London for display at the British Empire Exhibition...

    Same photo...the return leg...

Three-masted ship WANGANUI

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  • mambo1935 said:
    grace!
  • ANTONIO said:
    beautiful bow wave!!! ;--)
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    ANTONIO mambo1935 Cheers- its a great shot isn't it?
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  • Sarah S said:
    There is an diary of the a voyage from the UK to New Zealand on this ship in 1879 by 21 year old Thomas Oliver Stokes in the New Zealand Archives

Bundaberg, probably during the 1893 floods

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  • Plastic Transport said:
    This is another pic of Bundaberg, showing the lower lying areas in flood...here we see the ornamental facade and roof of the Metropolitan Hotel, corner of Bourbong/Barolin Sts...check it out on Google street view.

    The SLQ has a pic of the Holy Rosary Church, corner of Barolin/Woongarra Sts, which is dated 1895...it looks slightly more advanced than the building we see here...I'd add the link, but all the links I make to SLQ time out...however, if you search on Trove for pics of the Holy Rosary Church it comes up...the foundation stone was evidently laid in October 1886...so if the date on the SLQ pic is correct, this ANMM Poulsen pic would have been taken some time in the period 1886-1895...perhaps at the same time as the other ANMM Poulson pics of Bundaberg...which I suspect might have all been taken during/after the 1893 floods...

    I'm sure a few Bundaberg people would be interested in these pics...they're fascinating
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks Quasymody - glad you're getting stuck into these Bundaberg pics. It took me a while to realise that this image is facing away from the river. There is so much water on what looks like Crofton & George sts near Saltwater Creek I presume. Fantastic level of detail, thanks again!
  • Plastic Transport said:
    espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:263248/web_UQFL28_Album... ; espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:263249/web_UQFL28_Album... the next frame to the right!
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ha! Nearly exactly the same! Thanks Quasymody
  • Jenny Goss said:
    Bundaberg Library ca 1916 bundaberg.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?S...
    Qld State Library ca 1903 collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE221242

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