Author Topic: The iron barque 'Arabella'  (Read 134 times)

Offline Greybeard

  • Jack of all trades; master of none.
  • Wise & Enlightened
  • *
  • Join Date: Feb 2011
  • Posts: 9972
  • Karma: 50
The iron barque 'Arabella'
« on: 29.08. 2023 10:14 »

State Library of South Australia: B10524, taken at 90 Mile Beach, Western Australia.

Photographer: Captain Samuel White Sweet

"The iron barque  'Arabella', 700 tons, loading wool at Ninety Mile Beach, Western  Australia [iron barque, 688 gross (upon sale foreign became 700)  ON62880, 177.6 x 31.0 x 17.4. Built 1876 (2). Bartram, Haswell and Co.  Sunderland. Owners: TE Hick, registered Scarborough. c. 1895 Trinder  Anderson and Co. Ltd. c. 1901/2 to Swedish owners without change of  name. The property of Trinder Anderson was well known in the  UK-Western Australia trade.

This photograph shows the stern view of the  'Arabella', she is beached and a team of oxen are pulling wool bales to  be loaded on to the ship before high tide." I've posted two other pictures of ships being loaded like this in the past. It must have been a more common practice than I realized.
Greybeard (Neil)
2023 Gold Star
Supporter of THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN'S RIDE https://www.gentlemansride.com

Warwickshire UK


A Distinguished Gentleman Riding his 1955 Plunger Golden Flash