Lady Street











Lady Street
Type :
 Steel motor vessel
Launched  :
19/06/1975
Builder :
 New South Wales State Dockyard
Newcastle, NSW
Gross :
 350 tons
Dimensions :
 35.31 x 8.84  (metres)
Passenger capacity :
 554
Speed :
 11 knots

Lady Street was the second last of the Lady class vessels to be built, she was an identical sister to Lady Herron, also launched in the same year and still in service. Her launch date was the 19th of June, 1979. Built by the State Dockyard at Carrington Slipway in Newcastle, Lady Street was delivered in 1979. The vessel is constructed of steel and is 35.31 metres in length, has total breadth of 8.84 metres and draught of 2.06 metres. These vessels (and their half-sisters) were designed to operate at dead end wharves where turning the vessel is not possible.

Her delivery voyage from Newcastle to Sydney was delayed for several days. Initially she was to have departed from Newcastle on May 31st, 1979 but heavy seas turned her back.

Along with Lady Herron she was fitted with hydraulic gangways to allow her to operate at Manly Wharf.

On the 30th August, 1980, she lost one of her rudders and went aground at Darling Street Wharf (Balmain). She tangled with and collided with her sister, Lady McKell, at Circular Quay on March 18th, 1981.

In 2002 the three remaining Lady ferries were withdrawn from service for a refit. The refit cost $10 million dollars and saw only Lady Herron and Lady Northcott returned to passenger carrying duties. The decision was made to retire Lady Street. The refitted Lady Herron and the Lady Northcott will be fit to run until 2018.

Lady Street was laid up since withdrawal near to the Balmain yards of Sydney Ferries. She was scrapped in April 2007. Some of her fittings have gone to help renovate the Lady Cutler (now in private ownership in Melbourne). Other parts were reclaimed by SFC as spares for the two remaing Lady vessels still in their service.

Her wheel was presented to Sir Justice Street (the ferry was named after his mother).

Lady Street is the first of her class to be scrapped.
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