Here’s a favourite from the Great Lakes Museums collection of maritime photographs of the carvel built wooden ketch the “Favourite” wrecked on the rocks under Flagstaff Hill (Pilot Hill) at 10pm on the 31st of May 1897. Loaded with sawn timber bound for Sydney she was one of four coasters driven ashore in a shipping disaster at Cape Hawke.
Researchers at the Great Lakes Museum confirm it was the ‘S.S. Commonwealth’ pictured in our previous post that was heading out over the bar at the time of the building of the Forster breakwall. This very early image of the ‘S.S. Wootton’ shows a second level featuring above the superstructure where the ‘S.S.Commonwealth’ (built by the Breckenridge’s) has only a single level superstructure.
The collection of shipping images are being prepared for digitising to museum preservation standards before being for uploaded to the clickHistory Great Lakes database. By meeting industry set standards valuable details such as the warehouse pictured in the background of this photograph will be available on screen to aid the research and interpretive ability of the collection.
This new level of information raises more research questions such as what port was the ‘S.S. Wootton’ moored in at the time of this photo? If you have any clues please let us know.
TL
After our previous post we came across this early image of Hungerford’s locomotive traveling along the Forster breakwall whilst a steam ship makes its way over the bar. There is some debate over whether the ship pictured is the “S.S.Commonwealth” built in 1901 at Failford by Breckenridge’s or the “S.S.Wootton” built in 1900 at Forster by the Miles’.
Does anyone have any clues as to which ship she is?
TL
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