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Greycliffe Victim
Greycliffe may refer to: * Greycliffe disaster, a shipping accident in Sydney, Australia * Greycliffe House is an historic dwelling situated in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse * Greycliffe Homestead Greycliffe Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at 48 Gladstone Road, Biloela, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It was built from onwards . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History Greycliffe ... is a heritage-listed homestead in Biloela, Queensland, Australia * Greycliffe, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greycliffe Disaster
The ''Greycliffe'' disaster occurred in Sydney Harbour (Australia) on 3 November 1927 when the harbour ferry ''Greycliffe'' and the Union Steamship Company mail steamer ''Tahiti'' collided. The smaller ferry was cut in two and sank with the loss of 40 lives, the deadliest incident on Sydney Harbour. The ''Greycliffe'' ''Greycliffe'' was a wooden double-ended screw steamship built for the Watsons Bay run. Originally owned by the Watson's Bay and South Shore Ferry Co. Pty. Ltd, she and her running mates, ''King Edward'', ''Vaucluse'' and ''Woollahra'', were taken over by Sydney Ferries Limited in 1920. She was of 133 gross tons, on dimensions of 125.0 feet length between perpendiculars x 24.0 feet beam x 9.9 feet depth of hold. She was built at Balmain, Sydney in 1911 by David Drake Ltd. The vessel was powered by a triple-expansion steam engine of 49 nominal horse power made by Campbell & Calderwood that gave a maximum speed of about 12 knots A double-ended screw ferry, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greycliffe House
''Greycliffe House'' is an historic, two-storey residential dwelling situated in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia. Completed in in the Victorian Rustic Gothic style, ''Greycliffe'' is listed on the (now defunct) Australian Register of the National Estate and on the Municipality of Woollahra local government heritage list. History ''Greycliffe'' was built out of sandstone, with cedar joinery and fine quality plasterwork, for one of the daughters of William Charles Wentworth. Fanny Wentworth married John Reeve, a wealthy migrant from England. Reeve purchased land at Shark Beach from Wentworth and commissioned the architect John Hilly to build Greycliffe, which was completed circa 1852. A sealed entrance road, originally Greycliffe's carriage dive, leads to the house. Reeve never lived in ''Greycliffe'', preferring to travel to England with his wife. Instead, the house was leased to a string of prominent Sydney citizens, including, initially, Colonel Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greycliffe Homestead
Greycliffe Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at 48 Gladstone Road, Biloela, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It was built from onwards . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History Greycliffe Homestead is a slab dwelling formerly on Greycliffe pastoral station and relocated to Biloela where it has served as the headquarters of the Banana Shire Historical Society since 1979. Ludwig Leichhardt explored the Callide and Dawson Valleys in 1844. Thomas Archer took up Eidsvold pastoral run and Charles Archer moved further north settling in the region of what is now Biloela. Other European pastoralists soon followed them in the 1850s, when this district was still a part of New South Wales (prior to the separation of Queensland in 1859). In 1863 Frederick Barton took up Greycliffe. It is not certain when William Nott moved onto the run, but in 1871 he married Sophia Collins. Their first two children died, but in November 1875 Helen B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
