Ketch Aristides at Beachport |
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| Title : | Ketch Aristides at Beachport |
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| Source : | PRG 280/1/3/250 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1918 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
The ketch Aristides was built in 1902 in Tasmania by R Kennedy and Sons. By 1910 the vessel was registered at Port Adelaide to the South Australian government and worked servicing buoys and beacons for the South Australian Harbors Board. Aristides was 80 feet long, 21.9 feet wide and with a depth of 7.1 feet. She served as a tender and general work boat for the Harbors Board for 15 years and was then sold into private hands. The image shows the boat stranded at Beachport in 1918, but evidently suffering little damage. After 1929 Aristides was sold to a Tasmanian operator, Tom Spaulding. From here she operated across Bass Strait to Melbourne until wrecked on Three Hummock Island in 1940. |
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| Coverage year : | 1918 |
| Place : | Beachport |
| Region : | South East |
| Further reading : | Gillespie, James, Captain Traders under sail: the cutters, ketches and schooners of South Australia Largs Bay, S. Aust.: J. Gillespie, 1994 Parsons, Ronald, Southern passages: a maritime history of South Australia Netley, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 1986 Parsons, Ronald, Ketches of South Australia: a record of small sailing ships on the coast of South Australia, 1836-1970 Magill, S. Aust.: R.H. Parsons, 1983 |
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| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. Wooden Walls and Iron Sides August 2004- |
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