SS Balgowlah
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SS Balgowlah was a ferry on Sydney Harbour operated by the Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company on the Manly service from 1912 until 1951.
Balgowlah on Sydney Harbour
Kuring-gai (1901) was the forerunner to the "Binngarra-type" vessels including Balgowlah. Note the wheel houses located midships compared to Balgowlah's at the ends of the sun deck.
Under construction at Mort's Dock, Woolwich, May 1912
HMAS Burra Bra
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Burra Bra was a Manly ferry on Sydney Harbour that operated by the Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company from 1908 until 1940, before being requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy for use as an an
SS Balgowlah
…the "Binngarra-class" vessels would have their wheelhouses at either end of their promenade decks. The "Binngarra-class" ferries, Binngarra (1905), Burra-Bra (1908), Bellubera (1910), Balgowlah (1912), Barrenjoey (1913), and Baragoola (1922), were designed by Mort's Dock and Engineering, initially under the…
Burra Bra as built, ca. 1909
The ferry, Burra Bra, (background) on Sydney Harbour with racing skiffs, c. 1920
At Woolloomooloo as an anti-submarine training ship for RAN during WW2