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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. [9]
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]
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 ...
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.
Glentanner was an immigrant ship which made two voyages to New Zealand (in 1857 and 1861) as well as many voyages to Australia in the 1840s and 1850s. She was a clipper ship of 610 tons, built in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1842 and originally named Glentanar, that sailed from Gravesend, England, to Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand, carrying immigrants for the Canterbury Provincial Government.
In 1848–9, she was the first of three ships chartered by the Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang to bring free immigrants to Brisbane, Australia, arriving on 21 January 1849. [4] Captained by John Christmas, with the medical superintendent Henry Challinor , she departed Gravesend on 14 September 1848 and arrived at Moreton Bay on 21 January 1849.
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.