Author Topic: Pictorial - the B's (Read 881 times)

Lance · « **on:** June 12, 2009, 01:31:07 PM »

Binngarra (class vessel - 1905 - 1930)

Burra Bra (1908 - 1942)

Bellubera (1910 - 1973)

Balgowlah (1912 - 1951 (was supposed to be converted to diesel, Baragoola done instead as a stronger & higher capacity vessel))

Barrenjoey (1913 - 1951)/North Head (1951 - 1985)

Baragoola (1922 - 1983)

Average service life 49 years

Average service life for the three foreign boats 35 years

philip · « **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2009, 06:14:45 PM »

Very nice...enjoyed the timeline....here's my version of the "B"s.....(Burra Bra has an octagonal roof on the wheel house? Baragoola has a curved bridge...)
Try to get them all in 1928?

NB: The year the Curl Curl and Dee Why arrived....the height of the B class days???

Lance · « **Reply #2 on:** June 12, 2009, 06:20:01 PM »

It'd be great to take Baragoola back to a high funnel & open top deck - al-fresco dining on a balmy summer arvo!

philip · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2009, 02:22:49 PM »

Conditions must have been pretty rugged for the passengers on a cold winter evening..you wonder what extra cost there was in putting in an enclosure along two sides...I guess people were tougher back then...the clipper ships going around Cape Horn would have been a bit chilly too.....