Roberts, Geneta Ilvina Jane

Female 1889 -

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   Date  Event(s)
1893 
  • 9 Sep 1893: City of Adelaide leaves Glasgow under tow to Southampton.
1894 
  • 1894: Worlds 2nd Act granting women suffrage passed in Parliament House, Adelaide.
1896 
  • 1896: Moving pictures shown for first time in South Australia at Theatre Royal.
1899 
  • 1899: South Australian contingent leaves Adelaide for the Second Boer War.
1900 
  • 1900: First electricity station opened in South Australia at Grenfell Street.
1901 
  • 1 Jan 1901: Adelaide became a state capital upon establishment of Commonwealth of Australia.
1904 
  • 1904: State Flag of South Australia is officially adopted.
1908 
  • 1908: Adelaides Outer Harbor opens.
1919 
  • 1919: Adelaide awarded official city status and Mayor became Lord Mayor.
10 1923 
  • 1923: Sold to the Admiralty
11 1925 
  • 1 May 1925: Moved to Greenock and commissioned as a Naval Drill Ship.
12 1947 
  • 1947: Admiralty presents her to the R.N.V.R. Club (Scotland) who used her as a club rooms.
13 1978 
  • 1978: Deck is caught under wharf on a rising tide and City of Adelaide is partialy flooded.
14 1984 
  • 1984: Being used as clubrooms by the RNVR Club.
15 1989 
  • 1989: Being used as clubrooms by the RNVR Club.
16 1990 
  • 1990: Sold by the R.N.V.R. Club to the Clyde Ship Trust for
17 1991 
  • 1991: Sank at moorings in Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
18 1992 
  • 1992: Identified as part of the National [U.K.] Historic Ships Core Collection.
  • 1992: City of Adelaide becomes the property of the Scottish National Maritime Museum.