Lady Chelmsford - the Ocean Voyage - 2002

Elizabeth, South Australia, Australia: Railmac Publications, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 220mm x 160mm x 5mm. 32 Pages with Black/White Photos. Lady Chelmsford was a wooden screw steamer built by Rock Davis in Blackwall, New South Wales. Launched on the 14th of April 1910 she had a gross weight of 98 tons, and was 110 feet long. She was fitted with her compound engine and boiler at the yards of Morrison and Sinclair in Balmain and then entered service for her owners the Balmain New Ferry Company. The boat was one of the last surviving Lady class ferries in substantially original condition. The Lady Scott is virtually unrecognisable as the Harbour Queen and the other member of the class, Lady Denman, survives as an out-of-water static display. First of five, she was a sister to Lady Denman, Lady Edeline (a wreck on the Parramatta River), Lady Scott and Lady Ferguson all of who followed her in 1914. She was the most recognisable of the Ladies as she sported a much skinnier funnel… Leer más