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Pearling Luggers of the Torres Strait By Christina Ealing-Godbold, Research Librarian, Information Services | 19 November 2014 The luggers were gaff-rigged ketches constructed of wood, and many have continued to sail for more than 60 years. Typically measuring 15 to 20 meters in length, with low waists and bulwarks to assist diving, the two-masted pearling luggers were graceful with curved lines. They were a magnificent sight as they entered the open sea under full sail. There were many hundreds of luggers working across the north of Australia, from Thursday Island to Broome. Many of the luggers were built by Japanese shipwrights on Thursday Island. Indeed, by the turn of the century, the Japanese had a monopoly on the shipbuilding and slipways of the island. The Queensland Museum has examined the woods used in the luggers and has found that typically a mixture of native timbers was used, including melaleuca, turpentine, hoop pine, and sometimes imported timbers such as Oregon pine. The Queensland Maritime Museum at South Bank has restored a pearling lugger that was built on Thursday Island in 1907. Called Penguin, it was a working boat for more than 80 years. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/pearling-luggers-torres-strait

We skipped to the Loo Bridge previously -

Today's looks to be date match with beachcomber australia's one. Consecutive catalogue numbers, same widow open in the station, a white board propped against the gable. The men at the station have gone, and there is a stepladder there. I think both are fairly soon after the line opened in 1893.

L_IMP_2790 is one of the huge Imperial plates and has a choo-choo at the station, but the digitized copy is tiny.

Google Maps Satellite 3D is okay - www.google.com/maps/@51.9752746,-9.3363063,61a,35y,48.23h...

Broad white stripe !!!! Are the Mary's having us on. That is the crack in the plate that runs through the roof of the thatched cottage. I would agree with Niall McAuley soon after line opened. Stone walls look fresh no weathering on them. Look at contrast of wall with stile where it meets wall coming from behind gable of thatched cottage.

Glendarary House near Achill Sound: landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-sho... 6" Cassini Map: bit.ly/3mhg9Ql

William Pike of Glendarary, J.P. Barrister-at-Law, died in 1881 and was succeeded by his son, Richard James Pike. Major Richard James Pike of Glendarary died 29/11/1891 and was succeeded by his son, Richard Nicholson Pike. (Burke's Landed Gentry, 1898, pages 367-8): babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858027897986&vie...

"The only resident landlord on the island, Mr. William Pike ...", from a very disturbing contemporary Freeman's article about famine on Achill Island in 1880 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/133486960?searchTerm=p...

Funnily enough, the only person with the surname Pike who was enumerated in Mayo in the 1901 census was a German-born Church of Ireland jeweller by the name of Eanos Pike who was living as a lodger with the McNamara family in a three-roomed thatched house at Slievemore on Achill Island, not to far away from Glendarary!

Looking at the housing and building returns on the 1901 and 1911 censuses, I can't find a house to match Glendarary - there are six pages of records from the townland of Sraheens, but nothing of this size - could the house have been uninhabited as early as 1900?