Fleet
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Name | Period of service | Fate | |
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Fairlight | 1878-1912 | Sold to Brisbane for use as a lighter | |
Brightside | 1877-1908 | Scrapped 1908 | |
Brighton | 1883-1916 | Sold as store ship, Port Stephens | |
Narrabeen | 1886-1917 | Hulked 1917 | |
Manly II | 1896-1924 | ||
Kuring gai | 1901-1928 | Papua New Guinea store ship World War II, rusted remains near Hexham | |
Barrenjoey (rebuilt as North Head 1951) | 1913-1985 | Currently ashore in Cairns, Queensland | |
Baragoola | 1922-1983 | Currently Under Restoration By The Baragoola Preservation Association | |
Burra Bra | 1908-1943 | Requistioned by the Royal Australian Navy as an anti-submarine training vessel and target tow. Sold in 1947 and broken up in 1951. | |
Balgowlah | 1912-1951 | Sold in 1953, broken up and hulk converted to lighter. Lighter scuttled near Iron Cove Bridge | |
Bellubera | 1910-1973 | broken up and hulk scuttled off Long Reef in 1980 | |
Binngarra | 1905-1930 | Papua New Guinea store ship World War II, scuttled off Sydney 1946 | |
Dee Why I | 1928-1968 | Sold Stride's Shipbreakers July 1968, broken up and hulk scuttled off Long Reef May 1976 | |
Curl Curl I | 1928-1960 | Sold Stride's Shipbreakers July 1963, broken up and hulk scuttled off Sydney August 1969 | |
South Steyne | 1938-1974 | Converted into a floating restaurant, currently in Darling Harbour | |
Manly III | 1965-1980 | Sold to Hydrofoil Seaflight Services, Queensland | |
Fairlight II | 1966-1984 | Scrapped 1988 | |
Dee Why II | 1970-1984 | Scrapped 1988 | |
Curl Curl II | 1973- | Scrapped 1988 |
Read more about this topic: Port Jackson And Manly Steamship Company
Famous quotes containing the word fleet:
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (19111979)
“A city on th inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)