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Sails unfurled on a Torres boat with a topsail schooner at anchor, Aru Islands Regency, 1908

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    From 1863 to the 1980's hundreds of pearling vessels worked the East and West coasts of Queensland, Torres Strait and for some years in the Aru Islands of Indonesia. Of these, we believe that there are only 14 identified Torres Strait pearling luggers, 1 former pearl shell carrier and 2 former Torres Strait missionary vessels remaining. TORRES PEARL Formerly named SEDNEY, the Torres Pearl is currently located in Tasmania in private ownership. She has an aft-wheelhouse and those lugger lines. TORRES HERALD Torres Herald was also built by Norman Wright and Sons with her last known location being when she sank in 2014 in the Calliope River near Gladstone. Source: pearlingluggers.com.au/last-of-the-luggers

Looking up the companionway to the man at the helm on the boat Torres, Aru Islands Regency, 1908

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Pearling became the largest industry in far north Queensland in the 1890s and had a massive impact on coastal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It was the only industry ever exempted from the provisions of the White Australia policy because it was the economic pillar supporting the far north with cheap labour from the South Pacific and Asia. Its legacy is a history of mixed populations in the far north that defies the standard historical image of a white Australia. Source: www.qhatlas.com.au/content/pearling

May Lacy photographed with her cats ca. 1885

from State Library of Queensland

  • Wayne Hill said:
    Such a sweet child in appearance, probably a sweet personality also.
  • Wayne Hill said:
    Reports from Trove papers report that Emily was one of two women who survived. Read the story at. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122085519
  • Wayne Hill said:
    May was lost during the disaster, her sister, Emily born 1874 survived the RMS Quetta disaster eventually married Lt.Col. Leslie F S Hore.M.C. in 1896 at Hobart, passing away in 1951 at the ripe old age of 77 years at Moss Vale NSW .
  • State Library of Queensland said:
    Wayne Hill Thanks so much for adding these details to this photograph.