Adelaide (ship) explained
| Ship registration number: | Unknown |
| Ship official number: | Unknown| Hide Header: | yes | | Ship Status: | historic shipwreck |
| Ship Type: | Wood Cutter | | Ship Length: | m | | Ship Beam: | m | | Ship Draught: | m | | Ship Power: | NA |
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| Ship primary use: | Transport |
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-33.6°N 151.3°WAdelaide 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 while carrying a load of cedar. The wreck has not been located, but a vessel of its description was reported capsized between Cabbage Tree Bay and Bird Island at approximately 33.6°S 151.3°E.
[1] Further reading
Online Databases
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks https://web.archive.org/web/20110423022433/http://www.ozships.net/ozships/
Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks https://web.archive.org/web/20091002083826/http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/nsw-main.html
Books
- Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 .
- Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972,, Call number 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
Notes and References
- Web site: View Shipwreck - Adelaide . . Ausatralian government . 30 August 2018.
