Mort's Dock
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Mort's Dock is a former dry dock, slipway, and shipyard in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia. It was the first dry dock in Australia, opening for business in 1855 and closing more than a century lat
Vessels at Mort's Dock, Sydney Harbour, 1908
Mort’s Dock at Waterview Bay, Balmain, c. 1860, by William Hetzer
Mort’s Dock at Waterview Bay, Balmain, 1887
Workers at Mort's Dock lay the keel plate for a new vessel shortly after HMAS Deloraine was launched in 1941.
Kuramia
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Kuramia was a K-class ferry on Sydney Harbour. Commissioned in 1914, the timber-hulled steamer was built for Sydney Ferries Limited during the early twentieth boom in cross-harbour ferry travel. At 35
Kuramia near Milsons Point
Kuramia on her trials, 14 July 1914
At Circular Quay, circa 1920
Converted to and in use as a boom-gate vessel near Watsons Bay