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Old 04-02-16, 08:49 PM
Gordy Ross Gordy Ross is offline
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Default JUNO and WARRAWEE

WARRAWEE
...berthed outside of the Wharf Hotel in Port Adelaide with the JUNO
Australian - Coast Steamships of SA/GULF Steamship Co Ltd.
Built 1909 - 1953
413 gross tons, 175 net.
Lb: 155'8" x 27'2". on: 122726.
Steel, single screw steamship built by J Reid & Co, Whiteinch Glasgow for the Gulf Steamship Co Ltd, Port Adelaide.
Compound engine = 649 nhp, 750 ihp as manufactured by Muir & Houston, Glasgow, Rated 12 knots Service speed 10 knots.
Carried day passengers (100) only. Serviced the gulf trades before and after 1913 when owned by Copast Steamships Ltd.
At some stage was converted/re-measured at 423 gross, 165 net tons.
December 1939 requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy and after re-fitting, commissioned as a Minesweeper.
Performed that role mostly in South Australian waters and returned to owners 1946.
Sold to Howard G Smith Ltd 24 March 1953 and scrapped at Port Adelaide 1953. Warrawee means "Resting place / Rest awhile"

Information supplied by John Hoskin...http://www.flotilla-australia.com
Photo Credits: The Trove Australian National Library/the State Library of South Australia


JUNO
Australian - Coast Steamships Company SA/GULF Steamship Co Ltd.
Built 1903 - 1931
241 gross tons, 102 net.
Lbd: 129'9" x 23'1" x 8'5".
Steel steamship built by George Brown & Co., at Greenock, 1903. Of compounded engine = 84nhp.

Owned by Coast Steamship Co of South Australia Ltd, as a passenger-cargo vessel servicing the coastal ports of South Australia out of Port Adelaide. June 1906 owned by Gulf Steamship Company, in replacing the 'Ceres'.

Finally with the new Coast Steamships Ltd as at 1913.
Scuttled in North arm graveyard, Port of Adelaide with register closed 1931

Information supplied by John Hoskin...http://www.flotilla-australia.com

Photo Credits: The Trove Australian National Library/the State Library of South Australia

Cheers and GB

Gordy
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