ferries

Yes, it is Captain W. Manning, who skippered the new Sydney Harbour car ferry from Liverpool, arriving Monday 12/07/1926. They hit a gale off the Queensland coast which caused damage to the deck, as seen here. Read All About It ! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246352675

The 'Kalang' is an old favourite on Flickr. See also ...

Love the Builder's plate!

" Leipoa - 1872 - scientific name for malleefowl - Wooden paddle steamer. Built by Mort's Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd, Balmain. 19 hp steam engine by builder. H. Perdriau's Balmain Steam Ferry Co Ltd. broken up c1918. 49 tons, 27.4 m " From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sydney_Harbour_ferries

Not easy to see - I think the Centennial Hall at Sydney Town Hall is under construction. Looks like scaffolding there.

Henry Perdriau's grave at Rookwood Cemetery:

THE EDWARD STREET FERRY. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-There is a saying that a corporation is a thing which hasn't a body to be kicked. The residents of Kangaroo Point will endorse the saying, and, possibly regret the fact that they are deprived of this last consolation, if not cure, for the present ferry disarrangements. The reason is given that it does not pay to run two steamers. We are expecting that the next thing we will have to endure is the removal of the gas lamps in our streets on the ground that it does not pay to light them. The bridge is free to pedestrians, but the " Pointers" have to pay for their passage across and are condemned to take whatever facilities may be offered. If the present arrangements do not pay, the Mayor need not hesitate; we are all prepared to swim. In order to deal out sauce to the goose as well as to the gander, the steam punt might also be hung up to stop a leak in the municipal revenues. But as a sauce of this kind might interfere with, amongst other things, the delivery of tradesmen's orders, that gander comes out with all its feathers on. The crowding of the single steamer at the busy hours of the morning and evening is not only extremely inconvenient but a source of danger. A very, slight wash from a passing steamer at these hours is likely to cause a panic, and possibly an accident. In the latter event-absit, omen-we have no doubt that the Mayor is courteously prepared to head the funeral and the subscription list. There are frequently as many as sixty passengers on a single trip across, and the crushing, getting on and off, frequently those coming off jostling those coming on, is such that no woman or girl should be subjected to. The life-saving apparatus, even if "getatable," would serve about a dozen. I am. sir, &c, 11th September. POINTER. Source: The Brisbane Courier, 14, Sep 1896 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3634669# many as sixty passengers on a single trip