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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]
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 ...
Survey ship Leeuwin: 2000 HMAS Maitland: ACPB 88 Patrol boat Armidale: 2006 HMAS Maryborough: ACPB 95 Patrol boat Armidale: 2007 HMAS Melville: A 246 Survey ship Leeuwin: 2000 HMAS Parramatta: FFH 154 Frigate Anzac: 2003 HMAS Perth: FFH 157 Frigate Anzac: 2006 HMAS Rankin: SSG 78 Submarine Collins: 2003 HMAS Sheean: SSG 77 Submarine Collins ...
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.
Hooghly was a full-rigged merchant ship built on the Thames, England, and launched in 1819.She made two voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC), four voyages transporting convicts from England and Ireland to Australia, as well as voyages transporting emigrants to South Australia between 1839 and 1856.
She departed Port Adelaide on 18 September 1840 for Encounter Bay, to refuel for the return journey to London, planned for December. [9] The ship left for London on 23 January 1841 with two passengers, and "a full cargo of colonial produce, consisting of 320 casks of oil, 326 bundles of whalebone, and 400 bales of wool", under Captain Kenney. [10]
The SA Maritime Museum's offices in Lipson Street, built in 1888. The museum presents exhibitions in a pair of adjoining stone bond stores, built in the 1850s. [1] It offers visitors the opportunity to climb the Port Adelaide lighthouse that was built in 1869 and originally stood at the entrance to the Port River.