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.
