Category:City of Adelaide (ship, 1896)
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Ship
- Unique water jet propelled vessel provided by Robert Barr Smith
- Built of galvanised steel
- Long 15.8 m
- Beam 4.9 m
- 80 persons
History
- 1896 Named: City of Adelaide for the South Australian Colonial Navy, transferred to Beachport
- 1911 Assisted the survivors of the steamship Time, near Beachport.
- Propulsion system suffered problems during its career, and while it did not attend a shipwreck it stood by several ships in distress and helped save many lives.
- 1930 Out of service
- Declared an Historic Shipwreck under the South Australian Act, 1981, and is now on display at Port Lincoln.
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Lifeboat at Grindal Island, South Australia (ca. 1950).jpg 700 × 480; 25 KB
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