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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #195 on: February 13, 2012, 01:43:11 AM »
Obituaries for Hunter McPherson from Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Argus following his death at age 80 in 1932.  (source:  Trove website).  He was member of board of directors of Port Jackson and Manly SS Co from 1900 onwards and chairman of directors from 1913.  His wife Ada Annie McPherson launched Baragoola at Mort's Dock in 1922.

Ada McPherson (known in those days as Mrs Hunter McPherson) died just one year after her husband, in 1933.

They married in 1881 and had ten children, not an uncommon family size in those days.  Four sons and six daughters.  A family story (one that didn't make it into the obituary) relates how, when the whole family would go down to Circular Quay for a ferry trip to Manly, the chairman of the board would walk right on through the gate but everybody else in his family had to pay the fare and go through the turnstiles.

Their eldest son (Thomas) was a major in the 18th Battalion and was killed at Hill 60, Gallipoli in August 1915.
Youngest son (and baby of the family) was my grandfather.
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #196 on: March 14, 2012, 05:58:45 PM »
Previously undiscovered launch shot.


Note the white line, white bow and red anti-foul paint. Hull colour is lighter which means Baragoola definitely wasn't black.
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #197 on: March 18, 2012, 03:10:59 PM »
Baragoola in 1975 (c) John Cowper
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« Reply #198 on: March 18, 2012, 03:21:31 PM »
Baragoola in the 70s (c) John Cowper
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #199 on: March 25, 2012, 06:41:25 PM »
Baragoola late afternoon 24/03/2012
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« Reply #200 on: April 16, 2012, 04:42:33 PM »
North Head and Baragoola at Balmain 1980

Capt B Thomas photo
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #201 on: April 16, 2012, 07:02:00 PM »
Fantastic is al I can say.
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #202 on: April 30, 2012, 09:39:35 PM »
Quote from: Nicko on April 16, 2012, 04:42:33 PM
North Head and Baragoola at Balmain 1980

Capt B Thomas photo

Odd photo - both of them tied up together? Was there a strike?
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #203 on: May 01, 2012, 06:17:15 AM »
No Idea  =|
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Pick the location
« Reply #204 on: May 26, 2012, 05:15:12 PM »
Sorry that I need to place my name in the photos but many have been used without the original photographer noted JD
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« Reply #205 on: May 26, 2012, 08:04:34 PM »
Lane Cove River, last day of service - where she nearly ran out of fuel.

(ps - merged this into the Baragoola thread)
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #206 on: May 31, 2012, 09:50:02 AM »
Another image of Baragoola's Whale.

Evening Post 7 September, 1934
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #207 on: June 30, 2012, 08:53:53 PM »
Early shot of Goola
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #208 on: July 18, 2012, 10:54:04 AM »
Mort's Balmain in 1943 - one of the two slips in the image is where Goola was launched from 21 years earlier.
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Re: Baragoola
« Reply #209 on: July 18, 2012, 10:58:53 AM »
Baragoola moored at Kurraba Point with others 1943
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