Adelaide (ship)

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Career
Name: Adelaide
Ship registration number: Unknown
Ship official number: Unknown
Status: Wrecked
General characteristics
Type: Wood Cutter
Tonnage: Gross tonnage (GT) of   tons
Displacement: Net tonnage (NT) of   tons
Length:  m
Beam:  m
Draught:  m
Installed power: NA
Ship primary use: Transport
Ship industry:
Ship passenger capacity:
Wreck Event
When lost: 1837/07/
Where lost: Broken Bay, Hawkesbury River, off
Cargo: Timber (cedar)
Wreck Location
Discovered: No
Position: Vessel of its description reported bottom up between Cabbage Tree Bay and Bird Island.Coordinates: 33°36′S 151°18′E / 33.6°S 151.3°E / -33.6; 151.3

The Adelaide was a wooden cutter used in the cedar trade that was wrecked and lost off the Hawkesbury River in Broken Bay, New South Wales in July 1837.


Further reading

Online Database's
Australian National Shipwreck Database[1]
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [2]
Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks [3]

Books

  • Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 ISBN 9780646110813.
  • Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0 589 07112 2 910.4530994 BAT
  • Australian shipwrecks Vol. 2 1851–1871 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Sydney. Reed, 1980 910.4530994 LON
  • Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871–1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
  • Australian shipwrecks Vol. 4 1901–1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1987 910.4530994 LON
  • Australian shipwrecks Vol. 5 Update 1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1991 910.4530994 LON

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