Kaludah was a K-class ferry on Sydney Harbour, Australia. Commissioned in 1909, the timber-hulled steamer was built for Sydney Ferries Limited during the boom in cross-harbour ferry travel prior to the 1932 opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Like the other "K-class" ferries, she was double-deck, double-ended, steam-powered screw ferry. However, she and the larger but otherwise similar Kookooburra (1907), were the only two K-class ferries designed by naval architect Walter Reeks and not Sydney Ferries Limited's Captain Summerbell.
Kaludah in Sydney Cove
On the Parramatta River, circa 1910
Kaludah at Balmoral Beach, 18 days before her March 1911 fire, on a Grand Union of Free Gardeners picnic at Balmoral Beach.
Image accompanying newspaper report of the fire
The K-class ferries were a group of double-ended screw steam ferries run by Sydney Ferries Limited and its government successors on Sydney Harbour. The company introduced more than two dozen of the vessels from the 1890s through to the early twentieth century to meet the booming demand for ferry services across Sydney Harbour prior to the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932.
Five K-class ferries at Circular Quay in the 1920s. In the foreground is Koree (1902) and Koompartoo (1922) in the background left
K-class ferries, and two Manly ferries (top right) in Sydney Cove
Kangaroo in Neutral Bay
as Waringa (circa 1905-1907)
