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It was scrapped by fire in the dry dock in Ballina, NSW, due to the inability to raise the required money (about $300,000) to make her seaworthy. [3] Endurance, commanded by Ernest Shackleton and crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–17. Esmeralda, a sail training ship of the Chilean Navy.
The 27-metre wooden barquentine was built at the Manning River by Moses Joseph, New South Wales in 1847 and was registered in Sydney [32] The vessel was described as lying on the north-west side of Clarke's (or Elizabeth) Reef [33] On 15 January the 66-ton schooner Bride departed Sydney for Elizabeth reef [34] after having been chartered by J.S ...
On this first voyage as a barquentine, her master was Captain Andrew J. Lockie, [36] a New Zealander, who later commanded the ill-fated SS Canastota. [ 37 ] Lyman D. Foster left Auckland again on 5 August 1918, [ 38 ] to pick up a cargo of copra from Tonga, which she reached on 24 August 1918, [ 39 ] [ 40 ] bound for San Francisco.
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The Leeuwin II is a three-masted barquentine, named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin which mapped the south-west coast of Australia in 1622. It was built to a design by local naval architect Len Randell by Australian Shipbuilding Industries Pty Ltd (now BAE Systems Australia) and launched on 2 August 1986.
Buster was a 310-ton barquentine built in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1884.She was wrecked on 17 February 1893, while on a voyage from Sydney to New Zealand, when she was wrecked off Woolgoolga, New South Wales, Australia [1] where she had gone to collect a load of timber for Port Chalmers, Dunedin.
Barquentine-rigged Amorina was built as a lightship in 1934 for the Swedish maritime authorities then designated as lightship 33 . It was bought by private parties in 1979, converted to have masts installed and competed in the 1983 Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race .
The Black Demon's memory lives on at Miss Traill's House, among memorabilia and artefacts relating to four generations of the Lee family in Bathurst, bequeathed to the National Trust of Australia (NSW) along with the house and grounds, by Miss Ida Traill in 1976 [6] (Le Seuer (2015, 6) notes the bequeath date as 1978).