First Fleet and Rivercat Ferries
The Bill Allen Collection comprises a comprehensive collection of photographs of Sydney’s Ferries from the 1800’s to the present.
First Fleet and Rivercat Ferries
The First Fleet class ferries are:
Sirius, Supply, Alexander, Borrowdale, Charlotte, Golden Grove, Fishburn, Scarborough and Friendship.
The Rivercat class ferries are:
Dawn Fraser, Betty Cuthbert, Shane Gould, Marlene Matthews, Evonne Goolagong, Marjories Jackson, Nicole Stevenson, Mary MacKillop, Susie O’Neill, Louise Sauvage, No. 4 and Anne Sargeant.
Samples of photos from the collection of the two classes of vessels are shown below.
Anyone interested in investigating the images is invited to contact the SHF Maritime Records and Research Centre, either by phoning 02 9298 3888 or emailing mrrc@shf.org.au.
For costs and availability of obtaining any of these photos without watermark, as an electronic file, as a print from the original negative (where available) or as some other format, contact the Maritime Records and Research Centre’s Curator on 02 9298 3850 or email:mrrc@shf.org.au, quoting the full file name and giving details of format wanted.
Copyright for the majority of these images from the collection is vested in the Sydney Heritage Fleet. For the remaining images every attempt has been made to ensure correct attribution. If any originator of an image notes an error the Sydney Heritage Fleet would welcome any notification and will remove that image or modify its attribution.
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First Fleet Ferries
- 004 Borrowdale moving to slipway Jan.1985
- 006 Fishburn launching Aug.1985 (3)
- 010 Fishburn delivery to Sydney 3.10pm 2 Oct.1985
- 011 Sirius ready for launching 20 Aug.1984
- 013 Alexander ready to launch 19 Oct.1985
- 013 Golden Grove launching Dec.1985
- 014 Scarborough, 1986
- 015 Supply delivery voyage 21 Dec.1984
- 020 Supply from Fort Denison, Jan.1985
- 022 Golden Grove 27 Sept.1986
- 025 Friendship launching 9 May 1986
- 026 Alexander from Greenwich Oct.1987
- 035 Sirius - trials in Newcastle 9-10-84
- 039 Charlotte at Darling Harbour, Dec.1994
- 045 Friendship @ Gladesville Wharf, Feb.1989
- 063 Ferrython - Golden Grove 1997
- 067 Supply from Cremorne Jan.1993
- 093 Borrowdale turning @ Meadowbank Jan.1988
Rivercat Ferries
- 006 Nicole Stevenson @ Manly Wharf October1995
- 009 Mary MacKillop docking @ Garden Island November 2000
- 011 Anne Sargeant - Parramatta, September 1998
- 020 Marlene Matthews launching, 12 December 1992
- 025 Betty Cuthbert (2)
- 040 Marjorie Jackson leaving Parramatta December 1993
- 040 Shane Gould from Camellia Train Bridge December 1994
- 053 Super Cat 4 from Ryde Bridge, 21 April 2008
- 060 SuperCat No.4 at Darling Point Wharf, 5 January 2010
- 062 Evonne Goolagong from Rydalmere Bridge December 1993
- 142 Dawn Fraser at Parramatta in new livery October 1999