Sydney circa 1968

It is not uncommon for Tankers to take on sea water as ballast....but they don't usually deliver it elsewhere :wink:

Yeah,that was the first thought,they pumped out the wrong tank on the ship but no information was available as the State Manager blacked out info.There were rumours of sabotage as there were constant Union problems at the time but more likely human error or a faulty valve. 

Hydrofoil from Mrs Macquarie's Point

Do you like the way I got around the problem of the ad scaling down the size of my landscape photos!!

Edited by lyntonh, 19 December 2013 - 05:43.

More upstream from the bridge.

The first photo shows the new australia square building the tallest (the round building).and all those cargo ships sure was pre container days in Sydney.

Thanks Lynton and Happy Christmas.

Wonderful photos,so much detail.

For me its the cargo ships and different times.

Great colour in the photos,were they slide pictures to start with?

Ektachrome E2 processed at home in the laundry!!

The colour is rich because they've only been through a projector about 5 times.

And they've always been stored spaced apart in metal boxes or more recently folders with sleeves, & always in the dark.

If you want to destroy slides, show them on the wall....the heat from the lamp attracts dust & the light fades the dyes!!

Manly

From North Head....the brightness is all over the place because I was bracketing exposures & apertures, & trying out my new Praktica Nova 1 with 135mm & 50mm lenses....playing photographer, in other words.

A couple of shots posted earlier belong in this group.

Lynton,do you have any slides/photos of Rose bay....just hopping to see a flying boat or 2.

Lynton,do you have any slides/photos of Rose bay....just hopping to see a flying boat or 2.

Not that I can find.   

More boats

Hydrofoil from Mrs Macquarie's Point

 

Were these the Russian-made hydrofoils ?

I think they were Italian. I will google it!

More upstream from the bridge.


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Edited by Wirra, 20 December 2013 - 07:18.

'What did I do with them' Dept:

Back in the dark ages, a group of us chartered an Ansett Sandringham for joy rides on Lake Eucembene.  Great day, lots of fun, and great to have the run of the big beast, including the flight deck.  I took lots of pictures, which I am now reminded of.  Must have another look for them over the break ...

Which reminds me of the great adventure a mate of mine had when travelling to Lord Howe on the last scheduled Sandringham service, just prior to the airstrip opening.  He had some official duties to do with the establishment of RPT services.  Night before departure a strong storm blew in, the Sandringham dragged its anchor and stove in a wingtip float.  He was devastated that he had to wait a week (or so) until the other Sandringham could be made serviceable for the recovery flight  . 

LOLA5000 - Lynton,do you have any slides/photos of Rose bay....just hoping to see a flying boat or 2.

Steady on Rob, I watched them at Nose Bay as a small boy...at least 10 years before having my first camera!  

(PS Merry Christmas to you and yours)

From North Head....the brightness is all over the place because I was bracketing exposures & apertures, & trying out my new Praktica Nova 1 with 135mm & 50mm lenses....playing photographer, in other words.
 
A couple of shots posted earlier belong in this group.

 

Not sure if it's still the same, but the "Power gives way to sail" rule did not apply to most ferries. I think they had special markings, or lights.

Great photos, Lynton.

From

http://www.maritime....ecialareas.html

"Some commercial ferries on Sydney Harbour display an orange diamond shape which grants priority (right of way) over sailing vessels. This is an exception to the ‘power gives way to sail’ rule.

Do not attempt to cross the path of an approaching ferry displaying this signal."

I lived in Sydney for 2 years (79-81) and crewed on a 33' yacht on Saturday afternoon races on the harbour.  Great fun being yelled at by the skipper and his 75 year old foreward deck leading hand!  Better still were the beers in the club rooms after!   Much worse than the ferries were the fleets of lasers(basically surf boards with sails) having their own races around some of the same marks as us.  They took great delight in 'calling' starboard when they were on starboard tack and we were on port tack.  If we didn't give way then they had no compunction about protesting us to the club committee after the races so that we would be disqualified from our race. 

Yesterday I crossed the Sydney Harbour Bridge six times. It's funny how you take this sort of thing for granted - visitors to our city get such a thrill from this most ordinary of activities for some Sydneysiders.

Gee, that city skyline has changed. You'd hardly know it from those pictures.

And Australia Square IS round and Circular Quay IS square. We like to keep 'em guessing.

Bruce Moxon

And Eastern Creek is in the west and flows from south to north.

On the question of the genesis of the hydrofoils...

The Manly, which came first, was Italian for sure. I don't recall about the subsequent ones as I'd lost a bit of my interest in the ferry system. 

Isn't "Manley" a piston manufacturer?

And the localities named "Manly" in both Sydney and Brisbane have no 'e' for the obvious reason that they were named after the 'manly' local aboriginals.

Aborigines?

Circulay Quay in October 1968.

I was testing 50mm, 135mm & 2 times converter on the Praktica Nova 1.

What I found was that for the same exposure time etc, the low light definition remained reasonably constant, while the bright areas,

 "spilling & overflowing" were OK at lower magnification, but even though they remained in proportion, they became unpleasant at higher power as they were enlarged.

Bragging points for the Ship's name....

On the question of the genesis of the hydrofoils...

 

The Manly, which came first, was Italian for sure. I don't recall about the subsequent ones as I'd lost a bit of my interest in the ferry system. 

Ah, the Manly was actually built in Japan by Hitachi but under licence to the Swiss based Sachsenberg Supramar company. (which everyone thinks is Italian but was really German till the Russians took over but don't mention the war.)

That ship  looks like the old Fairstar, when she was still on the Sydney / London run. Taking young Aussies, such as Barry McKenzie back to Mother England to be truely educated.

Edited by ken devine, 21 December 2013 - 23:55.

On the question of the genesis of the hydrofoils...
 
The Manly, which came first, was Italian for sure. I don't recall about the subsequent ones as I'd lost a bit of my interest in the ferry system. 
 
Isn't "Manley" a piston manufacturer?
 
And the localities named "Manly" in both Sydney and Brisbane have no 'e' for the obvious reason that they were named after the 'manly' local aboriginals.

Edited by Lee Nicolle, 22 December 2013 - 05:51.

This shot, taken from the end of Darling Street Balmain East, is not at all good photographically, but....

I am absolutely intrigued to see what's in the foreground, just  a mile

from the Harbour Bridge in 1968.!!!

Edited by lyntonh, 22 December 2013 - 08:59.

City from the north east

This shot doesn't work, but...No Sydney Harbour series is complete without...............

Pinchgut.

Looks like the makings of a wharf, in the 'Bridge' photo.

The floating timber used to make whalfs etc health and safety would have great time with that today.

City from the north east

Long gone all those cargo ships..any photos of any tramp steamers?

 

The floating timber used to make whalfs etc health and safety would have great time with that today.

 

Turpentine with the bark on for piles on the right.  (No not those piles you idiot).

Originally posted by lyntonh

This shot doesn't work, but...No Sydney Harbour series is complete without...............

Isn't that the 'Baragoola' (launched 14.2.'22)?Though something tells me 'North Head' with the closed-in upper deck.

Edited by Ray Bell, 23 December 2013 - 12:29.

Am i correct that the old pre war (1939) ferries ,came out from UK under there own steam?

A couple more ships

Sublime and ridiculous

Sublime

Edited by wagons46, 29 January 2014 - 02:43.

wagons, you must have been a friend of Bob Levett's too!

Dead right, sorry I missed the question a month ago. And one of them had to fire the boilers with the boards that were up to protect the windows en route, as I recall, when they ran out of coal.

That was indeed the Baragoola, North Head had two funnels. My grandfather was a Manly ferry skipper and his biggest gripe was about the arrogant yachties who thought they owned the harbour.

It wouldn't have been so bad, Lee...

The 'Steyne would have been longer than two Endeavours put end to end. Not only that, Ferdinand had done his thing to make it all so much easier by then.

A couple more ships

 

What on earth is a BI ship doing in Sydney?  That's P&O country!

What on earth is a BI ship doing in Sydney?  That's P&O country!

Probably full of 'Ten Quid Poms'.

I thought it was only the sheep that got there in freighters!