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Tug 'Pluvius' carrying ferry passengers due to Sydney ferry strike, 1910

from State Library of New South Wales

  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/work/183007613 - good ca. 1930 NLA Fairfax pic of Pluvius...which was the Sydney Harbour Trust's fire float (fire fighting tug) and also general tug. I suspect this pic might have been taken during the 1913 ferry strike...
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    covid convict even though 1910 is the date written on the reverse of the photo I think you might be right. [?]ney Ferries Strike. (1913, March 29). The Dalby Herald (Qld. : 1910 - 1954), p. 6. Retrieved October 31, 2022, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article215333902
  • beachcomber australia said:
    More pics of 'Pluvius' working hard in March 1913 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/263868809?searchTerm=f...
  • Alexa-S. said:

The Ottawa Launch

from North East Museums

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  • John Hughes said:
    Remarkable photo! Amazing how the ship dwarfs the buildings in the foreground.
  • Peter D. Tillman said:
    Very cool photo. Does anyone know a bit about the ship? My feeble Google search didn't turn it up.
  • Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:
    The Ottawa was one of a large number of ships to bear this name, but this particular one was a tanker built at Swan Hunter's Wallsend yard in 1964 for Trident Tankers Ltd.
  • Peter D. Tillman said:
    Thanks. I'll go with "launched in 1964" per above. Added to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Hunter Thanks for posting these!
  • Jim H5 said:
    This was the first ship I worked on after being transferred on completing my apprenticeship at the Wallsend Slipway. It was 87,000 tonnes and I think it was propelled with a gas turbine engine. The photo was taken on land behind the Hebburn ferry landing on the bottom left of the picture. The Esso Northumbria was 256,000 tonnes

Ship surrounded by tug boats, Balmain, 1942

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Tommy Johansen said:
    that's an amazing shot.
  • Lins Oz said:
    The US Transport MOUNT VERNON (AP-22) aground at Balmain, Sydney during her arrival from Auckland on 12 October 1942. She was pulled clear by tugs the same day with no apparent damage. Built as the luxury liner SS WASHINGTON she entered service with the United States Lines in 1933. Acquired by the US Navy in June 1941, MOUNT VERNON transported British reinforcements and Hurricane fighters to Singapore in January 1942. A few months later in March she transported over 4,000 Australian troops from Middle East to Australia. Following the war she had a short period back in commercial service between 1947 and 1951 before being laid up for over a decade until broken up in 1965. Source: Sydney Harbour History/Ash Moore