The auxiliary ketch Will Watch sailed from Ulverstone for King Island with 75 tons of general cargo at 5.15 pm on 16 December 1958, with a crew of five —master George McCarthy (29), engineer Peter ...
The Campbell was a steel screw steam-powered whaling vessel, 135 tons gross with the dimensions 98.3 x 19.1 x 11.4 feet (30 x 5.8 x 3.5 metres). Built in 1911 by Nylands Voerkstad of Christiana, ...
S.S Brisbane was a four decked, two-masted iron steamship built in 1874 by A. & J. Inglis, Glasgow, for the Eastern and Australian Mail Steam Company. Powered by a compounding, two-stage steam engine, ...
The whaling barque Arachne was originally built as HMS Arachne, an 18 gun brig sloop of the Cruiser Class (two x 6 pwd long guns and 16 x 32 pwd carronades, 121 men). It was ordered in 1806, the keel ...