Port Adelaide, 1844 |
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| Title : | Port Adelaide, 1844 |
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| Creator : | Angas, George French, 1822-1886, artist | ||
| Source : | South Australia illustrated by George French Angas | ||
| Place Of Creation : | London | ||
| Publisher : | Thomas M'Lean | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1846 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Giles, J.W. | ||
| Format : | Book | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Plate 7: Port Adelaide. Part of the text accompanying the illustration reads 'The view given of Port Adelaide in the accompanying plate, is taken from the opposite bank of the harbour, looking towards the Mount Lofty Ranges: the red building to the left, is the South Australia Company's Store; fronting it, are their wharfs, and to the right, are those belonging to the Government. The ship moored in the stream, under repair, is the 'Ville de Bordeaux'; she is a French vessel, and was captured by rhe Custom-house officers at the Port for their illicit trading. Outside the bar is a light ship, marking the entrance to the harbour, the approach to which has been admirably buoyed by Captain Lipson ...'. Angas painted this image of Port Adelaide about 1844 and it was subsequently published in his folio volume South Australia illustrated in 1847. Part of the text accompanying the illustration reads 'The view ... is taken from the opposite bank of the harbour, looking towards the Mount Lofty Ranges: the red building to the left, is the South Australia Company's Store; fronting it, are their wharfs, and to the right, are those belonging to the Government. The ship moored in the stream, under repair, is the Ville de Bordeaux; she is a French vessel, and was captured by the Custom-house officers at the Port for their illicit trading. Outside the bar is a light ship, marking the entrance to the harbour, the approach to which has been admirably buoyed by Captain Lipson ...'. Adelaide's port was initially higher up the Port River, south of the present Jervois Bridge. Dubbed Port Misery because disembarking passengers had to struggle through mangrove swamp and over sandhills before commencing the trek to Adelaide, the site was quickly abandoned and in May 1839 work began on the 'New Port' some distance downstream, and the site of the present Inner Harbor. The South Australian Company quickly built the first wharf, McLaren Wharf, and began construction of the road to Adelaide. Port Adelaide continued to expand. Passengers no longer disembarked into a mangrove swamp. |
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| Related names : | Angas, George French, 1822-1886 |
| Coverage year : | 1847 |
| Period : | 1836-1851 |
| Place : | Port Adelaide |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | Parsons, Ronald. Southern passages: a maritime history of South Australia Netley, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 1986 Couper-Smartt, John. Port Adelaide: tales from a "commodious harbour" Port Adelaide: Friends of the South Australian Maritime Museum, 2003 Ritter, Ron. Triumph, tragedy and Port Adelaide [Para Vista, S. Aust.]: Ronald C. Ritter, 2005 Mudflats to metropolis: Port Adelaide 1836-1986 [Port Adelaide, S. Aust.: B. & T. Publishers, 1986] |
| Internet links : | Flinders Ports: Port Facilties: Port Adelaide SA Memory, The Foundation of South Australia 1800-1851 Port Adelaide |
| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. Wooden Walls and Iron Sides August 2004- |
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