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The shipping channel leading to the Outer Harbor was dredged to a depth of 14.2m to accommodate Panamax-sized ships [7] with the work being completed in February 2006. [ 8 ] The Outer Harbor passenger terminal services an increasing number of cruise liners visiting Adelaide, with 27 arrivals in the 2012 cruise season.
It is difficult for scholars to arrive at a definitive list of pioneer ships given the lack of extant primary evidence due to poor record keeping and accidental loss of records. [8] [a] The following list is based on the best available records, [9] [1] ordered chronologically by date of arrival in South Australia.
HMAS Collins, lead ship of her class Australia operates a single class of diesel-electric submarines, the six Collins-class boats which began entering service in 1993. The Collins was designed by the Swedish submarine builder Kockums as the Type 471 specifically to meet Australian requirements, many of which were derived from Australia's need for great range without utilizing a nuclear ...
It was later used to transport free settlers to Adelaide and New Zealand. [3] On 29 October [3] or 20 November 1838, the Thomas Harrison departed London, via Deal, Kent, [6] for Port Adelaide, arriving on 24 or 25 February 1939. Edward Michael Smith was the master on this voyage. [3]
The Port River is the western branch of the largest tidal estuary on the eastern side of Gulf St Vincent.The whole estuarine area, sometimes called the Port River estuary, includes Barker Inlet, Torrens Island, Garden Island, and to a greater or lesser extent touches the suburbs of St Kilda, Bolivar, Dry Creek, Port Adelaide, New Port, and (up the eastern flank of the Lefevre Peninsula ...
HMAS Adelaide (L01) is the second ship of the Canberra-class landing helicopter dock's (LHD). Construction of the ship started at Navantia 's Spanish shipyard, with steel-cutting in February 2010. The ship was laid down in February 2011, and launched on 4 July 2012.
The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788. The ships departed with an estimated 775 convicts (582 men and 193 women), as well as officers, marines, their wives and children, and provisions and agricultural implements.
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the city of Adelaide.