• Title
  Wreck of the S.S. Collaroy, 1881 / photographer unknown
• Call number
  SHIPS FILE/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1881
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  891574
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - 19 x 24.2 cm - albumen, on card
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  A passenger steamer owned by the Australian Steam Navigation Company, built in 1853. It was stranded ashore on Collaroy Beach in 1881 and remained there for 4 years. The steamer was recovered and put back into service plying between Sydney and the Hunter River. Withdrawn in 1886, it was converted to a schooner, sailed to San Francisco and ran ashore on the Californian Coast in 1889.
  
  References:
  Newcastle Region Library Picture Gallery. http://collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au/ (accessed April 20, 2010)
  NSW Government. Office of Environment and Heritage. Stranding of PS Collaroy, 1881 / Tim Smith. Heritage Office, August 2002. http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/heritagebranch/maritime/collaroywreck.pdf (accessed January 28, 2015)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Related Material
  ()
  ()
  'Collaroy' beached (189401)
• General note
  
  Transferred from SHIPS FILE/Collaroy, S.S. (BM), April 2010
  Digital order no:a1528938
  Paddle steamer 'Collaroy' - http://collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au/keemu/pages/nrm/Display.php?irn=54534&QueryPage=%2Fkeemu%2Fpages%2Fnrm%2Findex.htm
  Wreck of the S.S. Collaroy - http://collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au/keemu/pages/nrm/Display.php?irn=54517&QueryPage=%2Fkeemu%2Fpages%2Fnrm%2Findex.htm
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  SS Collaroy stranded at Long Reef -- in pencil on the card beneath the photograph
• Name
  Collaroy (paddle steamer)
  
• Subject
  Shipwrecks--New South Wales.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  paddle steamers
  shipwrecks
  
• Place
  Collaroy Beach (N.S.W.)
  Long Reef (Collaroy, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3277287

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