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...p owner and wine merchant who built the Dunbar Line of trading and convict ships. ...hantnetworks.com.au/periods/1800after/1800dunbar.htm Duncan Dunbar and his Ships] ...

...s was especially problematic as they were a necessity for both its war and merchant shipping. A thriving timber importing business had thus developed between ...bec City. The timber trade became a massive business. In one summer, 1200 ships were loaded with timber at Quebec City alone, and it became by far British ...

Sea signals are used on ships to communicate with each other or with stations on shore when in sight of l ...ting a series of signals to try to identify a ship. It also happened that ships would be sold, based in a new port, reregistered, and given new names and/o ...

...ulfils, or largely fulfils, all ten of the criteria for assessing historic ships as defined by the UK’s National Register of Historic Vessels. The ''City of * one of only three large ocean-going composite built ships in the world which have survived intact – the others are the ''Cutty Sark'' ...

In 1887, the ''City of Adelaide'' was sold to Dover coal merchant, [[Mowll, Charles Havelock|Charles Havelock Mowll]], for use in the collier ...cially problematic as they were a necessity for masts for both its war and merchant shipping. A thriving timber import business developed between Britain and ...

...e function of preparing boys to be officers in the [[British Merchant Navy|Merchant Navy]] through the 'Devitt & Moore' shipping, and later in the [[Royal Navy ...their boarding house, called Dunbar. All of the divisions are named after ships operated at various times by the Devitt and Moore Line. Members of the uppe ...

...e construction of the West India Docks. Milligan was a wealthy West Indies merchant and shipowner, who returned to London having previously managed his family' ...h of West India Docks, and was intended to provide a short cut for sailing ships, to save them travelling around the bottom of the Isle of Dogs to access th ...

...ps on the Australian run in their first year, and this had increased to 39 ships by 1840. London’s leading ship-owner [[Duncan Dunbar (shipowner)|Duncan Dun ...n at the docks as by his staff in the City. Like Moore, he would visit the ships in port for a chat every day, and this personal contact created much good-w ...

...extended from the Flinders Ranges north to Leigh Creek. In 1852-1853, wool merchant and MP Thomas Elder urged the government of the day to survey the harbour a ...ipped the first wool from Port Augusta to Port Adelaide. In 1859 the first ships arrived in Port Augusta to load cargo destined directly for England. ...

...ourse to be resumed. Mrs. Opdahl was the eldest daughter of a captain of a merchant ship, a Norwegian by birth, and had but one sister. She had not herself any ...ady was, with an attendant, transferred from the Lina to the City, and the ships parted. The lady was most carefully attended to on board the City, but afte ...

...= |work=National Register of Historic Vessels|publisher= National Historic Ships |accessdate=15 July 2010}}</ref> {{#tag:ref|The wreck of the composite clip The ''City of Adelaide'' is one of three surviving sailing ships, and the only of these a passenger ship, to have taken emigrants from the B ...

...ckground-color: #cccc99" | The ''City of Adelaide'' was sold to Dover coal merchant Charles Mowll in 1887. ...lor: #cccc99" | She was identified as part of the National [U.K.] Historic Ships Core Collection and was given an 'A' class heritage listing. At that time, ...

...(1840-1918) in December 1869 at Kidbrooke in Kent. He was a tea and sugar merchant from Greenock, Scotland. They had 5 children - two sons and then three daug ...g about 10 knots an hour but rather too much to the westward. We saw three ships – one homeward bound. The other two we passed, one was so close that we saw ...