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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]
Between 1842 and 1849, 234 juvenile offenders were transported to the Colony of Western Australia on seven convict ships. From 1850 to 1868, over 9,000 convicts were transported to the colony on 43 convict ship voyages. Western Australia was classed as a full-fledged penal colony in 1850.
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.
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 ...
After 111 days of travel, it arrived at Port Jackson on 9 June 1836, with 112 female convicts, 29 children, and 11 free women who were wives of prisons, with their 24 children. The master on that journey was Thomas O. Harrison of Cork, and the ship's surgeon Henry Gordon Brock, who also sailed on other convict ships.
The first female Prime Minister of Australia (2010-2013), Julia Gillard and her family migrated to South Australia from Southampton, UK, arriving at Adelaide, South Australia aboard Fairsky, in 1966. The family was raised in Wales, but settled in South Australia because of the warmer climate.
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.
City of Adelaide as an isolation hospital off Millbrook, c. 1894 A hospital ward on City of Adelaide when being used as a hospital ship off Millbrook, c. 1894. City of Adelaide ended her sailing career in 1893, when purchased by Southampton Corporation for £1750 to serve as a floating isolation hospital. During one year of operation, 23 cases ...