Captain Thomas Lipson was an officer in the Royal Navy, who, after a successful if unspectacular career in the Royal Navy, was appointed by the Admiralty as the first Harbour Master at South Australia, arriving there with the pioneer settlers. Serving from 1836 to 1855, based at Port Adelaide, Lipson also superintended many of the initial maritime surveys of that new colony.
Thomas Lipson RN
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the city of Adelaide. Port Adelaide played an important role in the formative decades of Adelaide and South Australia, with the port being early Adelaide's main supply and information link to the rest of the world. Its Kaurna name, although not officially adopted as a dual name, is Yertabulti.
Clockwise, from top: Port Adelaide Lighthouse and Fishermen's Wharf Market, Hart's Mill, Port River Dolphin, Alberton Oval, Birkenhead Bridge, Wool Stores
George French Angas, Port Adelaide, 1846, State Library of South Australia
Excavation of the Port Dock at Port Adelaide, 1879
A tram on St Vincent Street, 1919